• What He’s Poised to Do has been substantially expanded from the original edition of Correspondences. The limited edition included only seven stories; this new edition more than doubles its length, from seven stories to sixteen. This is also the first nationally available edition—only 250 copies of the previous edition were originally available at $50 each.

• What He’s Poised to Do will include a substantial P.S. expanding on an interactive element of the original project. In the central story of the original collection, the protagonist writes a series of postcards to his wife—and readers were invited to contribute to the story by writing those notes on the backs of actual cards included with the set, and sending them back to Hotel St. George. Greenman has collected dozens of these literary fragments and will share the best within the P.S. section.

What He’s Poised to Do is a diverse and moving collection of witty, innovative, often haunting stories about love, infidelity, and the vanishing art of letter writing from acclaimed novelist and New Yorker editor Ben Greenman, whom Time Out New York has hailed as “the love child of Paul Auster and John Hodgman” for his urbane yet soulful, sometimes arch, always surprising fiction. This collection—which had its origins in a boxed limited edition of seven stories published by a small press last year—is expanded here into a rich and diverse selection of fourteen stories that range widely over time and space, but which are united by a shared sense of yearning and a concern with connections missed and lost. From the brief, intriguing title story, which opens the collection; to “Hope,” the hilarious and mournful saga of a young Cuban man’s quixotic devotion to a woman he may never have met; to the wistful and elegiac “What We Believe But Cannot Praise,” the stories demonstrate Greenman’s maturity as a chronicler of romantic angst both contemporary and timeless—and as an explorer of the ways our yearning for connection informs our selves and souls.