Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids’ soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athle
One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in th
Jack has been widowed for close to a year, and his behavior has his friends worried. Arrested for public indecency, Jack insists that he was meeting a moon goddess of desire named Lily. Furthermore, h
Fiction. Winner of the Big Moose Prize. "CHILDREN AND LUNATICS pieces together a nightmare landscape—the one we all live in. It's recognizable, strange, and subtly frightening. You can't lay this book
Draws on reports from the front lines, case histories, personal letters, and war pensions files to trace the lives and fortunes of a large cast of ex-servicemen who suffered mental breakdowns. This bo
A powerful and revealing memoir about the pioneers of modern-day feminismPhyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1967-1972 integrated
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.' Oscar WildeBeautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics explores fascinating
To mark the four-hundreth anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes in 2016, six Anglophone writers take inspiration from Cervantes, while six contemporary Hispanic auth
An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosoph
Reveals how numerous everyday judgments, are based on what the author calls ?everyday irrationality”--misjudgments characterized by story-based thinking, rather than comparative thinking.
Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eer
