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Innovative State

by Aneesh Chopra

From the first chief technology officer of the United States, a brilliant look at our government, private sector “open innovation,” and how to tackle our most difficult problems with a…

In the Fall

by Jeffrey Lent

“Majestic . . . epic . . . vital . . . a necessary piece in a uniquely American mosaic.” —The New York Times Book Review…

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

by Carolyn Chute

“Chute’s novel pulses with kinetic energy. It seizes the reader on its opening page with a rhythm, a language, a knock-about country humor unmistakably its own.” —Newsweek…

Joanna Yas

Joanna Yas was the editor of Open City Magazine & Books for over a decade. She is editor-in-chief of Washington Square Review and executive editor of West 10th, and is…

Death in a Strange Country

by Donna Leon

“This series has become one of the adornments of current crime fiction. A gem.” —The Scotsman…

Winterton Blue

by Trezza Azzopardi

…imagination to conjure scenes of humor as well as heartbreak . . . She adds chiaro to the scuro of her fiction, drawing open the curtains on murky family history…

They’re at It Again

by Joanna Yas

The best stories from one of the brightest beacons of independent literature, Open City magazine….

Mount Clutter

by Sarah Lindsay

…the intricate links between people and their origins. . . . Her poems open doors to other worlds and other ways of seeing.” –Melanie Rehak, The New York Times Book…

Our Lady of the Flowers

by Jean Genet

“Elegiac elegance, alternately muted, languorous, vituperative, tender, glamorous, bitchy, lush, mockingly feminine, “high camp,” overripe, vigorous, rigorous, exalted. . . . A remarkable achievement.” –The New York Times Book Review…

The Flowers

by Dagoberto Gilb

“The prospect of reading a novel narrated in run-on sentences, fragments, Spanish phrases and street slang might seem daunting, but not when you meet the precocious, Holden Caufieldesque narrator of…