Search Results for: American

Crown

by Evanthia Bromiley

…A suspenseful, lyrical debut novel tracking three days leading up to the eviction of a pregnant single mother and her nine-year-old twins from a trailer park in the American Southwest….

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…

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,…

A Flock of Fools

by Kazuaki Tanahashi

“Translator Kaz Tanahashi and storyteller Peter Levitt have given these stories a subtle American-Zen flavor, and although this collections has a 1500-year pedigree . . . its messages ring clear…

Asa Akira

Asa Akira is a Japanese American actress working in the adult film industry. She has been named Performer of the Year at the AVN, XRCO, XBIZ, AEBN VOD, and Urban…

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…

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…