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Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer, and a political activist. The enduring characters he created include Sam Spade (The…

The Black Cabinet

by Jill Watts

A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and 1940s as President Franklin Delano…

The Steal

by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague

“A gripping ground-level narrative…a marvel of reporting.”—Washington Post “A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks.”—New York Times In The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew…

The First Hurt

by Rachel Sherman

…skin and stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. These haunting stories are both wonderfully, deeply weird and unsettlingly familiar.” —Judy Budnitz, author of Nice Big American Baby…

The Other Side of Power

by Claude Steiner

“Many people who have fulfilled the ‘power dream’ found it empty and have given it up; the American Dream has become a dead-end street.”—Dr. Claude Mr. Steiner, 1981

The Spirit of Zen

by Alan Watts

“Alan Watts is the brain and Buddha of American Zen.” –The Nation…

Hunts in Dreams

by Tom Drury

“Drury is an absolutely delightful writer who has carved out a world of his own in American fiction, one that is odd, revealing, and yet filled with love.” —Library Journal…

Citizen Tom Paine

by Howard Fast

“Howard Fast has taken a figure out of American history and by the intensity of his emotional sympathy and intellectual response has made him into a living man . ….

Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies, To Kill a Mockingbird

by Horton Foote

A collection of Horton Foote’s best-known and most-loved screenplays, revealing the deep currents of American society through the simplest details of daily life….

The Black Brook

by Tom Drury

…of my favorite novels on earth” (Christian Science Monitor), now expanded with a new Q&A between Handler and Drury, a “major figure in American literature” (New York Times Book Review)….