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Luke Slade, a young Congressional aide, begins this business trip to China like all other international travel he's endured with "Leo the Lyin'" buried under a slew of diplomatic runarounds,...

"The reading is something like archeology, sifting the layers that have built up over the years to find the source of a familiar voice . . . Left Out in the Rain shows us the footsteps in the wet...

This startlingly original debut from This American Life contributor Jonathan Goldstein is, according to a Vice Magazine reviewer, "the cleanest dirty book I've ever read." It's a snapshot of the mind...

This meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of Leonard Woolf, the "dark star" of Bloomsbury, is the first to capture his troubled relationship with his wife, his own intellect,...

For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives?ncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories...

Imbued with the tension of Taipei and the beauty of mountain seclusion, Lessons in Essence uncovers timeless human truths in the crises faced by an honest and vulnerable man Teacher Li is a grumbling...

Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin's death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou's ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin's life in context within the...

A compassionate look back at her lifelong mental health issues and how she finally came to the other side, this memoir will help families and partners of anyone struggling?nd anyone struggling...

Capturing the atmosphere of anxiety and loss that exists in Manhattan, this is a story of the city itself, and the interconnected lives of those attempting to navigate both Manhattan and their own...

Few literary celebrities have lived with more abandon and under a brighter spotlight than Lillian Hellman. Even fewer have been doubted as absolutely as Hellman, famously denounced by rival Mary...

Live Nude Elf chronicles Reverend Jen's two-year stint as sex columnist for nerve.com; she details her "sexperiments," ranging from harrowing (working as a live nude girl at "Wiggles") to...

Ronald Aronson has a mission: to demonstrate that a life without religion can be coherent, moral, and committed. Optimistic and stirring, Living Without God is less interested in attacking religion...

A creative compendium of recipes that reclaims the kitchen for the hip crowd. Historically, a love of cooking has been left to those considered far from cool: suburbanite Betty Crockers toiling over...

The splendors of science, delightfully demystified. How do we make sense of the modern world? Science is a profoundly affecting aspect of contemporary life, and yet the gulf between experts and...

Whether the subject of her fancy is the lowly, unassuming potato or the love life of that aphrodisiac mollusk the oyster, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher writes with a simplicity that belies the...

An NPR Best Book of 2017 "A chillingly adroit debut novel." --Elle "Lucky You is a marvel of a book, partly because Carter does a perfect job balancing humor and tragedy . . . As an author, she's...

There is something about Lux. He's a thief and a liar; he is selfish and self-absorbed and hopelessly vain. But while he looks like Lana Turner and romances like a true Casanova, Lux is actually more...

A master of combining science, history, and his own experiences into a riveting read, William L. Fox will make you look at L.A.--and any urban landscape --in an entirely new way. William L. Fox is a...

This off-kilter novel centers on three girls who are definitely not part of the in crowd: one's fat, one's a dyke, and one is missing a breast. Nicknamed "Lezzylard" by her classmates, Angie is...

A Lit Hub Best Book of 2016 ? One of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2016 ? An Entropy Best Book of 2016 ?The duchess herself would be delighted at her resurrection in Margaret the First.....

From the author of Seven Loves comes this austere, passionately shaped collection of stories that courageously explores the dynamic nature of modern marriage, the life-shattering heartbreak that...

This collection of essays, chosen by the Philip Hamburger from his 60 years of writing for The New Yorker, chronicles not only the people of US political life (Judge Learned Hand, Fiorello La...

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in NarrativeAuthor: Jane AlisonPublisher: CatapultPublication Date: April 02, 2019Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters. The year was 1936, and Depression laden America...

"[A] well-edited collection . . . More than friends and less than lovers, Salter and Phelps were literary soul mates." --Publishers Weekly It was James Salter's third novel, A Sport and a...

Three generations of women struggle with oppression in this prize-winning historical saga from "a natural born storyteller" (Julia Alvarez). When I remember Russia, I ache with longing for the...

Eric Warberg went to Hollywood to make it big. For many years, he was successful, until directing a few box office bombs made him virtually unemployable. When an opportunity presents itself for a...

This ancient text records the teachings of Mencius (4th c. B.C.E.), the second originary sage in the Confucian tradition which has shaped Chinese civilization for over two thousand years. In a...

Frederick Langlois could be that geeky 17-year-old found in every high school -- the one who closely clutches his poem-filled notebook, who feels a bit too deeply, who's just a little too old for his...

Mighty, Mighty is a modern day fable set in a crumbling metropolis riddled with urban poverty and violence. Dirty apartments, tattoo parlors, food kitchens - these are the markers of home for the...