Peter Orner keeps a small writing studio inside an old hotel on the Connecticut River, where Vermont meets New Hampshire. That room, to put this kindly, is often a landfill, a mess, though not without ...

Over the last few years Peter Orner’s come home to write about Rogers Park, the neighborhood he never lived in. The results are several melancholy and moving tales in Esther Stories, his recently ...

Over five books and a series of essays, Dartmouth professor Peter Orner has built a reputation as a writer’s writer, his chiseled sentences imbued with wisdom about humanity’s vicissitudes, battles ...

Peter Orner introduces us to a sizable cast of characters in his latest collection, 'Maggie Brown and Others.” The book contains work ranging from very short stories to novella, giving the collection ...