A Girl Could Stand Up

“Elray Mayhew is one of the truly original literary heroines of the past few decades. . . . A Girl Could Stand Up is the kind of novel that one…

The House of Morgan

“As a portrait of finance, politics, and the world of avarice and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and tension of an epic novel. It is, quite…

How the Dead Live

“How the Dead Live overflows with rhetorical ecstasy–arabesques of assonance and alliteration, puns peppering every paragraph, chiasmus turning clause after clause back on themselves like a hall of mirrors, page…

I’d Know That Voice Anywhere

From the celebrated writer Frank Deford, a collection of his best sports commentaries from more than thirty years of weekly appearances on NPR’s Morning Edition….

If You Didn’t Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?

“[Heavey’s] writing is funny, poignant, acerbic and, best of all, always alert to the absurdities of life. This is a book that will be read and re-read for years and…

Misconception

“What starts out as a fairly standard story of teenagers taking themselves too seriously ends up being a funny and finely hewn examination of some serious concerns. There are the…

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

La Bete and Wrong Mountain

“La B”te is the boldest and most original play to be produced on Broadway in many years, and the rare one that is both serious and funny. It is the…

Brass

“In Brass, Walsh has created some of literature’s sexiest sex scenes, most out-of-it drug-taking . . . and imagery you won’t easily scrub off the back of your mind. It…

Before the End, After the Beginning

A raw, honest, and personal new collection of stories from acclaimed storyteller Dagoberto Gilb, “an important voice in American fiction.” (Annie Proulx)…