Emmanuelle

“Lyrical and graphic . . . It’s not all salacious play-by-play. . . . The book’s argument reverberates beyond the erotic.” —Teddy Wayne, NPR…

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 boom, to the present.

The Devil I Know

A witty, captivating novel of greed and hubris set amid the Celtic Tiger and its ignominious downfall, by a writer who, Barbara Kingsolver has said, “packs a stunning worldly wisdom…

The Bald Soprano and Other Plays

“The Bald Soprano is explosively, liberatingly funny . . . a loony parody with a climax which is an orgy of non-sequiturs.” —The Observer…

The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman

“A bona fide literary event.” –Newsweek…

Apache

“A truly amazing portrayal of the technical, the emotional, and the courageous. Macy puts the reader in the cockpit of our most lethal attack platform.” —Dick Couch, author of The…

Deadman

“Ends in a bloody showdown staged to sensational effect . . . Shrewd . . . Mr. Jackson trots out a delicious medley of villains.” –The New York Times Book…

Baked

“A laugh-out-loud, thrill-a-minute, tour de force of bad behavior, weirdness, and contemporary illegal commerce. With Baked, Mark Haskell Smith may just have written his masterpiece.” —Jerry Stahl…

Conversations with Pinter

Country of the Blind

“[Brookmyre’s] characters tend to talk like they’ve read a lot of Elmore Leonard and seen a lot of Quentin Tarantino. . . . [His] books are all about broad humor,…