Books written by Joseph McElroy

  • The Writer's Brush: An Exhibition of Artwork by Writers

    Catalog of an exhibition held at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, in New York, New York from September 11 to October 27, 2007 and at the Pierre Menard Gallery, Brookline, Massachusetts, from December 5, 2007 to January 20, 2008.

  • Women and Men

    A mirror of manners, the book is also a meditation on the languages, rich, ludicrous, exact, and also American, in which we try to grasp the world we're in.

  • Hind's Kidnap

    A city pastoral Joseph McElroy called his second novel when it first appeared in 1969; now, a half century later, we may experience in Hind's Kidnap a society reaching outward almost like a planet at risk, persons who would be dekidnaped to ...

  • A Smuggler's Bible

    David Brook, a young professor, tries to combine the experiences of his mother, son, wife, father, and friends into a novel capturing the essence of his life, in a new edition of the first novel by the award-winning author of Hind's Kidnap.

  • Night Soul and Other Stories

    Best known for his complex and beautiful novels—regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo—Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the course of his ...

  • Night Soul and Other Stories

    ... Bornholm Night-Ferry. Darkling Plain: Texts for the Air. Flotsam and Jetsam. Langrishe, Go Down. Scenes from a Receding Past. Windy Arbours. Keizo hino, Isle of Dreams. aldous huxley, Antic Hay. Crome Yellow. Point Counter Point. Those ...