Cross and Burn

“McDermid is at the top of her form in this sizzling story. . . . You will not put this one down until the final sentence.” —Margaret Cannon, Globe and…

Dark Roots

“If stories could be called watchful, that might begin to describe Cate Kennedy’s debut collection. . . . Kennedy’s tales are full of provocative messages, tantalizingly revealed.” —O Magazine…

Cosmos

“Cosmos is a vicious and uncompromised little gem of the obscene.” —Adam Novy, The Believer…

Come in with the Dutchman

A reissue of Burroughs’s “fiction in the form of a film script,” Come In With the Dutchman is a singular take on one of the most notorious gangsters in American…

Closer

“Bleak and brilliant. There can be no doubt about the power and originality of Cooper’s writing. Sheer force of style raises Closer to the level of (at least) a minor…

At Briarwood School for Girls

From the award-winning writer of Eveningland and The Typist, Michael Knight, At Briarwood School for Girls is an incisive, witty, beautifully-written novel set at a boarding school in the Virginia…

Cat Brushing

A rousing and original debut story collection that probes the erotic, emotional, and intellectual lives of elder women, Cat Brushing will be published in the author’s 80th year…

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused

“In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. ….

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