The Yellow House

by Sarah M. Broom

A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.

The Art of Political Murder

by Francisco Goldman

“The Art of Political Murder is both a page-turner and a searing indictment of a corrosive brand of politics that has overwhelmed a nation . . . In these dark…

Repetition

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Exhibits a sensibility as nervous and contemporary–not to mention witty–as that of any novelist working today. . . . Objects play as dramatic a role in Repetition as do characters….

A Man of Two Faces

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD: The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide…

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…

Friends in High Places

by Donna Leon

“Leon tells the story as if she loves Venice as much as her detective does, warts and all. The plot and subplots unfold elegantly; beauty and the beast march hand…

Sewer, Gas & Electric

by Matt Ruff

…future that Ruff admits is the present in drag. . . . [Ruff] might just be the fellow whom American literature’s been seeking for a long time.” –The Washington Post…

Eden

by Olympia Vernon

“Daring [and] explosively supernatural. . . . [Eden is] a startling reminder of how forceful Southern magic can be.” –The New York Times Book Review…

The Beholder’s Eye

by Walt Harrington

“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…

The Englishman’s Boy

by Guy Vanderhaeghe

“The Englishman’s Boy . . . [is] outstanding. . . . A complex, finely written story of deception, dreams, survival, and greed.” —Sybil Downing, The Denver Post…

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