The Comedians
An expansive and endlessly entertaining history of stand-up comedy, spanning more than a century from vaudeville through radio, television, the counterculture, and the comedy…
keep readingAn expansive and endlessly entertaining history of stand-up comedy, spanning more than a century from vaudeville through radio, television, the counterculture, and the comedy…
keep readingFrom New York Times bestselling author Alice LaPlante, a mesmerizing novel about faith, grief, and obsession as a complicated, passionate young woman falls in…
keep reading“The question Rechy asks is still potent: Would you die for sex? Rechy’s sizzling literary response . . . is as exciting as it…
keep reading“Kaniuk portrays an ugly episode in history and provides much-needed historical depth to contemporary political debates.” –Publishers Weekly
keep readingWill Self has been praised by The New York Times Book Review as “a high-powered satirical weapon” and Cock & Bull is one of…
keep reading“A dazzling succession of . . . erotic episodes . . . Cockpit defines itself (as Kosinski does his hero) by the suicidal chances it takes . . . brilliantly defying the limitations of its form.” –The New York Times Book Review…
keep reading“Charles Frazier has taken on a daunting task–and has done extraordinarily well by it… a Whitmanesque foray into America: into its hugeness, its freshness,…
keep reading“Sentence by sentence, Piñol’s first novel offers a tightly crafted allegory of human brutality, both fascinating and repellent.” —Publishers Weekly
keep readingSet in Moscow in 1938, when the celebrated Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov is forced to write a play for Stalin, this is Trainspotting screenwriter…
keep reading“Bernard Pomerance’s writing is beautifully realized in all respects.” –Douglas Watt, New York Daily News
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