Tag Archives: Literary

The Boy Who Ran to the Woods

by Jim Harrison

“Harrison is a master at describing the natural world, and Pohrt’s illustrations are gently evocative of the northern Michigan landscape.” —San Francisco Sunday Examiner…

Brass

by Helen Walsh

“In Brass, Walsh has created some of literature’s sexiest sex scenes, most out-of-it drug-taking . . . and imagery you won’t easily scrub off the back of your mind. It is spellbinding and utterly unique.” —The Independent…

Brave Deeds

by David Abrams

A powerful second novel from the author of Fobbit, Brave Deeds is a portrait of the modern American military, following one squad of soldiers…

Bongwater

by Michael Hornburg

“Bongwater is one of the coolest books of the year. Hornburg explodes the whole grunge mythos by taking it out of the realm of…

Book of Clouds

by Chloe Aridjis

“The opening is a knockout. . . . Aridjis beautifully captures Tatiana’s conflicting sense of certainty and impossibility . . . in this novel…

Borderlands

by James Carlos Blake

“No fiction written by a Texan these days is as violent as James Carlos Blake’s. He likes it that way, and he’s not the…

Blue Movie

by Terry Southern

“Terry Southern writes a mean, coolly deliberate, and murderous prose.” —Norman Mailer…

Blueprints of the Afterlife

by Ryan Boudinot

An 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