The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New Y
“Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures.” —The New York Times Book Review“On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure—a perpetual-motio
Though perhaps better known for her tumultuous marriages to the painter Lucian Freud and poet Robert Lowell, Caroline Blackwood remains a woman whose formidable intellect and artistry indelibly marke
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind,
After six years away, living in Paris with her disgraced and dying mother, a runaway from a disastrous marriage to her father, twenty-two-year-old Anastasia King returns to her grandmother's house onl
A late-night phone call overturns Nick BludAs settled life, drawing the successful physician back into his old Ukranian-American neighborhood where violence still reigns. Reprint.
A reasonably successful, fiftysomething artist and professor caught between a midlife crisis and the decay of his sixties, Elroy Nights--with his wife's agreement--elects to live separately from his w
Everyone wants to write a book. Arlette Rosen knows that and earns her living helping strangers with their book ideas: books about Derrida and dieting, personal histories and Armenian detectives, book
This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, B
With the expected grace of Wendell Berry comes The Hidden Wound, an essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our country. Through Berry’s personal experience, he explain
The noted director traces his career, from directing Shakespeare's dramas, to London's West End, to his work with Laurence Olivier, Salvador Dali, and other giants
A collection of letters--to friends, lovers, family, and colleagues--by the legendary crime writer reveals the man behind the author as he discusses the craft of writing, his personal life, and his li
Harriet Browning becomes enmeshed in the old movies that she was deprived of as a child and views over and over again, until she no longer fits into the real world, until the arrival of two Hollywood
The author gathers together her most important writing from the last fifteen years to illuminate the ways in which a writer returns to the same seminal themes throughout a life.
