Around two years ago, Johanna Kaplan learned, out of the blue, that HarperCollins was interested in reissuing a short story collection she had originally published all the way back in 1975. “It’s a ...

Some writers publish a critically acclaimed book or two and then . . . go silent. The reasons are as varied as the writers themselves: distraction, disenchantment, writer’s block, censorship, illness.

Forget judging a book by its cover: one look at the facial expression on Johanna Kaplan’s author picture on the back flap of “Loss of Memory is Only Temporary” will give a reader everything they need ...