Tag Archives: Literary
Blue Movie
by Terry Southern“Terry Southern writes a mean, coolly deliberate, and murderous prose.” —Norman Mailer…
Blueprints of the Afterlife
by Ryan BoudinotAn audacious, hilarious, and compelling novel of future shock, overconsumption, social control, and human nature by Ryan Boudinot, whom Dave Eggers has called “Some kind of new and dangerous cross between Vonnegut and Barthelme.”…
Bodies and Souls
by John Rechy“Rechy is very good at evoking the seamier side of the streets, and he is masterful in funny, graphic sex scenes.” —Publishers Weekly…
Blind Date
by Jerzy Kosinski“Kosinski’s vitality and inventiveness . . . are as irresistible as ever.” –Time
The Blind Owl
by Sadegh HedayatAvailable with a new introduction, The Blind Owl is a masterpiece of Persian literature—a tale of obsession and madness that chillingly re-creates the labyrinthine…
The Blindness of the Heart
by Julia Franck“Winner of the German Book Prize . . . this is a great, big silence-breaker of a novel, a laser beam into the German…
Blood and Guts in High School
by Kathy AckerThe novel that made a cult icon of Kathy Acker, whose work is “like reading William S. Burroughs while watching an avant-garde theater group…
The Blood of Heaven
by Kent Wascom“Every page of Kent Wascom’s debut struck me with its beauty and ugliness. . . . This is not, like most novels, a glimpse of a life. It is a life.” —Esquire…
Black Eagle Child
by Ray Young Bear“The American Indian poet and novelist Ray A. Young Bear possesses a robust imagination and a wonderfully droll narrative voice.” –The New York Times
The Black Minutes
by Martín Solares“A breathless, marvelous first novel . . . This is Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest . . . a literary masterpiece…
