Guests of the Ayatollah

by Mark Bowden

“Heart-stopping, and heart-breaking.” —James Traub, New York Times Book Review…

The Divine Husband

by Francisco Goldman

“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…

Open Me

by Lisa Locascio

A political and erotically-charged debut that follows a young American woman’s transformative journey during one pivotal summer abroad hailed by Viet Thanh Nguyen as “unflinching in its portrayal of sex,…

Word Virus

by William S. Burroughs

…on the nod, Mark Twain with a gun . . . . Word Virus [is] a fantastic, weird, disturbing and intriguing tribute to an inimitable American voice.” –Mark Luce, Salon…

The Typist

by Michael Knight

The most ambitious novel to date from the award-winning Southern writer Michael Knight, about a green young American posted to the strange realm of post-World War II Japan, where his…

Reviving the Spirit

by Beverly Hall Lawrence

“The historical role of the church during slavery and the civil rights movement has always kept this institution at the center of the African American community. . . . The…

Naked Lunch

by William S. Burroughs

“A book of great beauty . . . . Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.” –Norman Mailer…

In the Fall

by Jeffrey Lent

“Majestic . . . epic . . . vital . . . a necessary piece in a uniquely American mosaic.” —The New York Times Book Review…

How the Hell Did This Happen?

by P. J. O'Rourke

An essential take on the stranger-than-fiction 2016 presidential elections from a quintessential voice on American politics and culture.

Closer

by Dennis Cooper

“The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction.”—Bret Easton Ellis Winner of the Ferro–Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction From “the most dangerous writer in America” (Village Voice), Dennis Cooper’s Closer…

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