“[Narrator] Taylor Harvey brings an unusual collection of short stories to life . . . The performance borders on the musical with Harvey matching the poetic cadence while ensuring that the unusual elements—tiny humans wrapped in plastic as snacks, a vending machine addiction, and a relationship with the devil—are clear and engaging.” –AudioFile Magazine

“These interconnected stories centered on the craft of writing are both intriguing and thought-provoking . . . Narrator Taylor Harvey’s placid voice helps listeners meditate on the story’s individual messages, portraying the devil as one who seems sad about humanity’s folly.” –Library Journal

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life, and she writes him stories about beautiful and impossible things.

Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and unsettling linked collection that lures listeners into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil, where they’ll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead.

With a singular voice in the narrative-bending tradition of Kafka, Cortázar, and Bulgakov, Lima speaks to Brazilian-American immigrant experiences—of ambition, fear, heartbreak, and home—with equal parts warmth and agitation.

Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is a powerful experience: once listened to, you’re as much a part of the stories as they’re a part of you. The collection includes “Rapture,” “Ghost Story,” “Tropicália,” “Antropógaga,” “Idle Hands,” “Rent,” “Porcelain,” “Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,” and “Hasselblad.”