Tiny Love Stories

“Jones and Lee, editor and submission reader, respectively, for the New York Times Modern Love column, assemble a charming assortment of brief tales of love from the popular column. Each of the 175 selections distill a story of love into fewer than 100 words. While romantic love predominates, there are stories of love between parents and children, siblings, and even for pets and places… . This is a moving testament to the diversity and depths of love.”—Publishers Weekly

Daniel Jones has edited the Modern Love column in the New York Times since its inception in 2004. His books include Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption; Love Illuminated: Exploring Life’s Most Mystifying Subject (with the Help of 50,000 Strangers); The Bastard on the Couch; and the novel After Lucy, which was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award. Jones appears weekly on the Modern Love podcast and is a consulting producer for Amazon’s Modern Love. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and New York City.

Miya Matsumoto Lee began working for the Modern Love column in 2014 as a submission reader for the column’s third college essay contest. After interning at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and graduating magna cum laude from Columbia University, Miya joined the New York Times as the Modern Love projects assistant. She grew up in New York City, where she currently lives.