When Professor Humberto Ossmann and Dr. Clematis Woodley, who heartily despised each other in life, are found together in a mortal embrace, Norman de Ratour knows that evil once again...
A hilarious first novel about pagan sacrifice, plundered gold, the Tour de France, and the artistic uses of a BarbieAn American family summering in an unexpectedly commercialized and traffic-choked Provence...
In her compelling fourth novel, Marian Thurm creates an unforgettable character: a clairvoyant blessed with powers he cannot deny, yearning for a life of ordinary happiness. With eerie and often...
William Corbett's memoir of Philip Guston focuses on their friendship over the last eight years of Guston's life and on the paintings and drawings Guston made during those years. Guston's...
An Altogether Different Language, a long-awaited first collection of poems written over the past sixty years, introduces Anne Porter as a poet of startling insight and wisdom. This is a...
Deanovich's second volume of poetry. "Zombie Jet is divided in three parts. "This is the Universe, " takes on big questions-time, space, countries of the world. "Silver Dress and Ukelele,...
By taking Tolstoy's famous dictum that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and bending it to the service of the black-comic, Southern neo-gothic novel, Julie Edelson creates...
These stories, which are often set in the crossroads state of Indiana, focus on the strange connections between fact and fiction. The first section of Seeing Eye is composed of...
Dean Cranston Fessing, dispatched from Wainscott University to investigate finances of the neighboring Museum of Man, has been murdered. Not only that, but his grisly remains bear the unmistakable mark...
Two middle-aged sisters, Louise and Shelby, live together in a small, Southern town. Their cousin wants to institutionalize Shelby and their tragic family history is unraveled.
Johns is considered both the founder of Pop Art and Minimalism, as well as a hermetic figure whose work has confounded critics for nearly forty years. Yau's view of Johns's...
"James laughlin, with this collection, takes his place as one of the most original and accomplished contemporary American poets. With Laughlin, clarity is paramount. He uses no excess decoration. He...
'80s art-world phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat was prolific in his short lifetime, creating an exhilarating new art inspired by music, language, and black American cultural icons. To Repel Ghosts synchronizes the...