Esquire Publishing Men's Fiction E-Books That creaky label "women's fiction" tends to conjure up images of novels about family, career or relationships. But men's fiction? Esquire magazine will try to define it in June with a new push into publishing fiction, beginning with an e-book series called "Fiction for Men." The first volume of the series includes new short stories by Aaron Gwyn, Luis Alberto Urrea and Jess Walter, and the stories will be sold only in e-book format in collaboration with Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher, beginning June 12. Another volume will follow every few months. It coincides with the publication of three works in the June/July issue of Esquire - by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill; the thriller writer Lee Child; and Colum McCann. The works will be available only in the print and iPad editions of the magazine. David Granger, the editor in chief of Esquire, said he has lamented the loss of space that magazines devoted to publishing fiction. The New Yorker is perhaps the most visible home for fiction in the magazine world, but many other magazines have cut back. "It's a struggle, because especially during the recession, we lost so many pages," he said. Fiction begins to feel a little bit of a luxury. His definition of men's fiction? Work that is "plot-driven and exciting, where one thing happens after another," he said. And also at the same time, dealing with passages in a man's life that seem common.