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Stet

by Diana Athill

…So her engaging memoir, Stet: An Editor’s Life, is full of juicy stories about the egos and libidos behind the literary personages she has known.” –Andrea Behr, San Francisco Chronicle…

The Road to Lichfield

by Penelope Lively

…. . . A journey of self-discovery-the narrative urges the reader to contemplate the larger context in which people everywhere live out their individual dramas.” –Wendy Martin, San Francisco Chronicle…

Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America

by Kathy Acker

…. . . Acker is an expert at evoking this shadowy realm of belief and emotion where the rules of cause and effect do not necessarily apply.” –San Francisco Chronicle…

Recital of the Dog

by David Rabe

…much both to Albert Camus and James M. Cain. . . . Rabe’s beautiful, tight, fluent prose renders the fragility of reality with enormous power and grace.” –San Francisco Chronicle…

Passing On

by Penelope Lively

…. . . Lively has a gift for invention and control. . . . The slow unfolding of secrets gives the book tension without melodrama.” –Roz Spafford, San Francisco Chronicle…

Neutral Buoyancy

by Tim Ecott

…explorations of corners of the dive world. . . . It should be awarded a place on any diver’s reference shelf for tasty tidbits of history alone.” –San Francisco Chronicle…

Midnight Cactus

by Bella Pollen

“Seductive and disturbing ” Alice Coleman is an entertaining heroine.” ––Ann Cummins, San Francisco Chronicle…

Minaret

by Leila Aboulela

…rarefied and uncompromising that it is likely to throw the reader out of kilter. . . . Her delicacy of touch is to be complimented.” –Chandrahas Choudhury, San Francisco Chronicle…

The Merciful Women

by Federico Andahazi

“[The Merciful Women]’s playful, satiric, erotic, sometimes savage, sometimes slapstick account of one man’s case of severe literary envy is something completely different, and well worth reading.” –San Francisco Chronicle…

If They Move . . . Kill ‘Em!

by David Weddle

“Written in no-nonsense prose as lean as the laconic-cowpoke director himself, this fat bio reconstructs the trailblazing architect of The Wild Bunch.” –William O. Goggin, San Francisco Weekly…