Blind Date

by Jerzy Kosinski

“Kosinski’s vitality and inventiveness . . . are as irresistible as ever.” –Time…

The Gay Metropolis

by Charles Kaiser

“The landmark portrait of 20th-century New York viewed through the eyes of gay New Yorkers . . . Mr. Kaiser guides us through the amazing changes in gay life at…

Charles Bukowski

by Howard Sounes

“Engaging . . . adroit . . . revealing.” —The New York Times Book Review…

The Farmer’s Daughter

by Jim Harrison

The Farmer’s Daughter is a marvelous feast of a book that represents Jim Harrison’s finest collection of novellas since Legends of the Fall….

The Driftless Area

by Tom Drury

From the award-winning author of The End of Vandalism: “Equal parts heist caper, ghost story and romance . . . in prose that is spare and sly” (The New York…

Every Drop of Blood

by Ed Achorn

A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story—Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the…

Composing a Life

by Mary Catherine Bateson

“A masterwork of rare breadth and particularity, encompassing all the rhythms of five lives and friendships, and interweaving their stories in ways that reveal grand social truths and peculiar personal…

The English Major

by Jim Harrison

“Harrison spins the common chaff of a road trip into gold. . . . peppered with his characteristic insights and asides. . . . After a long and idiosyncratic literary…

Black Hawk Down

by Mark Bowden

“Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable. . . . The individual stories are woven together in such a compelling and expert fashion, the…

Liberty’s First Crisis

by Charles Slack

The tumultuous early years of the United States are brought to life in this gripping account of the Sedition Act and its victims, including a firebrand congressman, a famous muckraking…

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