The Best of Plimpton
“Plimpton, the professional amateur, the dashing public hero, is first and best a writer.” –The New Yorker
keep reading“Plimpton, the professional amateur, the dashing public hero, is first and best a writer.” –The New Yorker
keep reading“Engaging and occasionally even uproarious. . . . The book is a pleasure precisely because it so brazenly sloughs off responsibilities to pacing, plot…
keep reading“Betrayal is an exquisite play, brilliantly simple in form and courageous in its search for a poetry that turns banality into a melancholy beauty….
keep reading“A tour de force of heartrending reportage . . . which blends rigorous journalistic research with the narrative skills of a novelist. . ….
keep reading“The whole way, he offers a little history and a lot of personality. An easygoing, vernacular companion through the vast regions of the Great…
keep reading“Suchet’s explanations of Beethoven’s music sing to us almost as if we could hear it. . . . [A] deeply moving, outstanding biography.” —Kirkus…
keep reading“Brilliant. Before He Finds Her is one of the most innovative and compelling thrillers to come along in recent years. Read the first page…
keep readingA raw, honest, and personal new collection of stories from acclaimed storyteller Dagoberto Gilb, “an important voice in American fiction.” (Annie Proulx)
keep reading“Mr. Donaghy…is a dramatist of inventive eloquence, finding the poetry of longing in the empty mantras and sound bites of contemporary pop culture.” –The…
keep readingBehind Closed Doors is a novel in two halves, and a carnival of decadent delights.
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