Search Results for: American

Deviant Behavior

by Mike Sager

“Mike Sager’s keen, journalistic eye and unique voice transfer to fiction with highly entertaining results. Deviant Behavior is a street-level, symphonic portrait of an American city.” —George Pelecanos, author of…

The First Hurt

by Rachel Sherman

…skin and stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. These haunting stories are both wonderfully, deeply weird and unsettlingly familiar.” —Judy Budnitz, author of Nice Big American Baby…

Friedrich Durrenmatt

…to the attention of American theatergoers in 1958 when The Visit opened on Broadway. So profound an impression did this play make that Dürrenmatt rose to a place alongside Beckett,…

Evolution

by Eileen Myles

…by Eileen Myles, Evolution, finds our game-changing writer keying lines in an idiomatic, euphoric style that the New York Times has called “one of the essential voices in American poetry”…

Charlie Wilson’s War

by George Crile

“Americans often ask: ‘Where have all the heroes gone?’ Well a lot of them come roaring through in this tour de force of reporting and writing. Tom Clancy’s fiction pales…

The Age of Perpetual Light

by Josh Weil

…better life from Josh Weil, one of “the most gifted writers of his generation” (Colum McCann), winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters….

Dogfight

by Michael Knight

“Ten stories cut like gems from American family life . . . [with] a gracious patina and a drawl of violence.” —Los Angeles Times…

Manson in His Own Words

by Nuel Emmons

“A glimpse of part of the American experience that is rarely described from the inside . . . It compels both interest and horror.” –The Washington Post…

What It Takes to Get to Vegas

by Yxta Maya Murray

…is at once specifically American in its rhythms and syntax, and indisputably female. . . . Rita Zapata is who Holden Caufield would want to be if he were alive…

Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer, and a political activist. The enduring characters he created include Sam Spade (The…