T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.

“Shakur produces a visceral and strikingly real portrayal of gang life in Los Angeles, replete with sudden and inexplicable violence, revenge, betrayal, ostentatious living, racism, the strong arm of law…

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…

Levi’s Children

The Beholder’s Eye

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

Second Violin

“Smart and gracefully written . . . It has been Lawton’s achievement to capture, in first-rate popular fiction, the courage and drama—and the widespread tomorrow-we-may-die exuberance—of that terrible and thrilling…

A Place to Stand

“The finest memoir I’ve read in I don’t know how long. It reminded me of the rawness of George Orwell combined with the human exuberance of Neruda’s memoirs. . ….

Much Depends On Dinner

“Fascinating . . . Margaret Visser is a gifted informal writer, and these chapters combine a wealth of unusual information with extreme readability. . . . In short, Visser whetted…

The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna

“His language is direct and strikingly honest, and yet he is also able to illuminate life’s transforming moments with a delicate appreciation of their power and evanescence.” –The Washington Post…

Having Everything

“A master of understated, ominous moments in a marriage in which not asking a question can be more disastrous than asking it . . . Sharp, moving, poignant.” –The Washington…

Lovers for a Day

“Klíma is simply not read widely enough in the U.S. . . . A master of the significant detail–telling only that which is essential.” –Brad Hooper, Booklist…