Cavemen roam the suburbs, morality is questionable, teens are angsting, and oddities abound. This is the world as Stacey Richter sees it. In spite of - or perhaps because of - this rather eccentric c
Acclaimed literary biographer Benita Eisler sheds new light on the many roles, triumphs, and losses that together constituted Sand's overwhelming presence. The author of nearly ninety novels, twenty-
Thirty-four and decidedly independent, Renata has been known to keep her involvement with people, men in particular, to a minimum. Even her job at the library keeps her at a remove from the uncertaint
In the spring of 1964, Joel Agee, not quite at home in his native New York (having spent much of his boyhood and youth behind the Iron Curtain), accidentally ingests a sizeable dose of LSD. All at onc
In this re-imaging of The Odyssey, Ben Ehrenreich casts the ever-pining Penny as a modern-day Penelope, aswirl in a sea of hopeful ne'er-do-wells. While her lover Payne, much like Odysseus, gallivant
Presents a wry and comical snapshot of the mind of Josh, a rather confused young man who must cope with his father's listlessness, his own overwhelming lust, and the arrival of the Moschiach, inventor
Presents the first biography of the playwright written with the full cooperation of her family, friends, and inner circle, and discusses the life and career of the controversial writer.
In this collection of stories, the characters live seemingly ordinary lives, but, with attention to the nuances of language, their perversions and subversions are revealed with wit and acuity, sometim
In Human Oddities, by newcomer Noria Jablonski, we meet Siamese twins, newly separated, drag queens, and seedy hospital orderlies. A corpse washed up on the beach, cancer diagnoses, and tummy tuck ope
When Jerry Simpkins finally gets his wish to die, his grandson Charlie takes the blame and heads to Vietnam to divert suspicion from his brother P.T., only to find himself embroiled in another murder
Other than the publication of his correspondence between himself and Paul Bowles, Ned Rorem has never published the vast correspondence he shared with a sublime mix of people - Leontyne Price, Virgil
As a child, Lydia Rowe developed clear and distinct ideas about what made for the harmonious life. As a grown woman, married to an artist, in close contact with friends she's had since college, mothe
In the spring of 2003, metro desk reporter Alan Feuer was sent to the Middle East to cover the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He was not alone: not only were forty correspondents from the Times dispatched, b
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.
Set in a small Ontario town in the 1960s, Midnight at the Dragon Cafe is the story of a young girl whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets and, ultim
A successful computer graphics designer and former erotic dancer, Oceane satisfies her yearning for travel by bringing the world into her South London flat via courier, satellite, the Internet, radio,
The author of Son of the Morning Star and Deus Lo Volt probes the mind of the Spanish painter, reconstructing the violent, repressive Spain he called home and charting his powerful influence on Wester
The novel opens with Barbara, who, after remembering incidents of torture at the hands of her father, has quite literally broken down. Found inside a disabled elevator, she is no longer able to functi
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
A collection of short stories about essentially decent people dealing with corrupting circumstances offers portraits of dignity in the face of oppression and examines the strength that comes from faci
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
By 1929, the brief, brilliant career of Bix Beiderbecke--self-taught cornetist, pianist, and composer--had already become legend. From the summer of '26 at Hudson Lake, Indiana, when his genius blaze
In July 1938, William Maxwell, then twenty-nine years old and the acting poetry editor of The New Yorker, wrote to Sylvia Townsend Warner inviting her to send him verse. Miss Warner, forty-four and fa
Before he dazzled American readers with his best-selling novel Stanley Park, Timothy Taylor was already acclaimed in Canada as one of the finest writers of stories working today. Silent Cruise brings
Having driven her grown children far from home, cynical widow Jerusha scoffs at their choices in life and finds herself becoming unexpectedly attached to her ten-year-old next-door neighbor, the son o
Provides a close-up look at the scandals that rocked the San Francisco Zen Center, a leader in alternative religious practice and the counterculture in America, and their repercussions. Reprint.
Presents linked short tales about a group of Chinese immigrants from the turn of the century and their descendants as they struggle to assimilate and retain cultural pride through their interactions a
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 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
A compelling exploration of the meaning of ôwildernessö follows the authorÆs exploration of local landscapes such as a hedge maze and town parks in search of that essential contact with nature.
Everyone would agree that Darius Halloway was the most civilized of men, a professor of French literature, a connoisseur of ideas and women and wine, a perfect guest at life's dinner party. Darius him
A series of interconnected short stories explores the intimacies, betrayals, origins and evolution, joys, and tragedies of friendship between women. By the author of A Student of Weather. Original. 25
For thirty-nine years Wendell Berry has brought us stories from the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky. The latest, Jayber Crow, is the story of a man's love for his community and his abiding a
Two very different people--a poet at the end of an exhausting and bitter divorce and a celebrated architect whose wife is pulled away from their home by an increasing ambition--are drawn together in a
Mat Feltner struggles to accept the loss of his son as the rest of the Port William, Kentucky, community watches the progress of World War II. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
The celebrated writer disputes the assertations of E.O. Wilson's Consilience, claiming that religion and art are not subject to modern science. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Offers a collection of new short stories from the author of the critically acclaimed The Springs of Affection, several of which are set in the author's native Dublin or in Herbert's Retreat, a comfor
God wills it! The year is 1095 and the most prominent leaders of the Christian world are assembled in a meadow in France. Deus lo volt! This cry is taken up, echoes forth, is carried on. The Crusades
First published in 1958, this collection of stories by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author explores characters broken by war, loss, and longing. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
A chronicle of the Chinese subjugation of Tibet describes the horrors the Chinese government has inflicted on this mountain nation, told with unflinching detail, with reports taken from refugees. Repr
