First Love and Other Shorts

“The cracked and crackling narrator of First Love who tells of how he met a woman on a bench, went back to live with her, and left her as she…

The Far Field

An elegant, epic debut novel—“equal parts love story, war story, and family intrigue” (Ben Fountain)—from an exciting new talent and Pushcart Prize-winner that follows one young woman’s search for a…

The Dress Lodger

“Holman seduces you. Her prose, tart, racy and somber, will sing in your soul a long while.” —Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes…

The Divine Husband

“The Divine Husband presents the peculiar crossroads where love and imagination meet politics and history. . . . A great miscegenating carnival of ambition and desire.” —Lee Siegel, The New…

Code Blue

A powerful and path-breaking expose of America’s Medical Industrial Complex—the network of mutually beneficial relationships between big business, academic medicine, patient advocacy organizations, hospitals, and government—and a compelling way forward…

The Delusions of Crowds

Bottomland

A haunting tale surrounding the disappearance of two German American sisters from a small Iowan farm at the end of WWI and the family left behind, plagued by suspicion and…

Charles Bukowski

“Engaging . . . adroit . . . revealing.” —The New York Times Book Review…

Camus, a Romance

“A rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir. . .[an] intriguing, multi-faceted portrait.” —The Washington Post…

The Interior Circuit

“So sneakily brilliant it’s hard to put into words. Part travelogue, part memoir, part reportage on Mexican politics and the scourge of narco-terrorism, it is also, in the finest sense,…