A darkly funny look at the frayed edges of America-as a massive chemical fire sweeps across the nation. By an emerging master of dark comedy/pop culture.
A lyrical novel about what art can reveal, and a nuanced imagining of the people who influenced Edgar Degas and his work. With key roles for beloved Degas paintings.
Brief portraits of the childhoods of the US Presidents, delivered with rich details and assembled from fragments culled from hundreds of sources, from scholarly material to children's literature. A fascinating look at the arc of American childhood and at the origins of American political power.
David LeGault's One Million Maniacs explores the meaning of collecting, why we do it and what our collections might mean. LeGault's debut is a funny and deeply-felt look at the never-ending task of finding value amidst life's trash--framed by his endeavors to collect one hundred copies of 10, 000 Maniacs: Unplugged CDs.
Featuring essays and reportage from Harper's, The Atlantic and other critically-acclaimed journals. a multi-dimensinoal look at our relationships with trees by established and emerging authors
From an award-winning author, this short novel satirizes the pressures of modern family life, from urban organics to political tracking apps to the inscrutable rules of preschool birthday events.
A modern-day pioneer in search of a new life, pregnant Evie leaves her abusive husband and lands in a close-knit community divided by local colonial history-a story that goes deep to the roots of the American conscience. Following a near fatal accident, Evie, a mild-mannered, pregnant school teacher, abandons her controlling husband and flees Santa Cruz, California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house on a dead end road in...
An artfully understated and deeply sensitive novel about the individual trauma of terrorism and its culture of fear. Appealing to readers of all political stripes, from an author of high literary repute.
True confessions of an all-American 1950s poster boy. From the pro speech circuit to a rigged TV game show, McCall details what drove him to be a paragon of postwar optimism--until he simply couldn't anymore, ending up in a brothel in Calcutta and reemerging as an acclaimed novelist and teacher.
Jazz history for aficionados and the rest of us. An intimate and expert look at the mid-century scene, focusing on the lost talents that stood beside the era's giants. Gilbreath takes on a few standard assumptions, too, from the impact of heroin to the central myths of Miles Davis. From an emerging, critically-acclaimed essayist.
