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The Waterworks
"An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction."-The Washington Post Book World One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, …
Billy Bathgate
To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an …
Welcome to Hard Times
The Best American Short Stories
Despite increasing competition, this annual collection remains the place to find the most compelling short fiction published in the U.S. and Canada" (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY). To usher …
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
John Leonard was a lion of American letters. A passionate, erudite, and wide-ranging critic, he helped shape the landscape of modern literature. Reading for My Life is a monumental …
E. L. Doctorow
During his lifetime E. L. Doctorow was a remarkable phenomenon among contemporary American novelists. He was a serious writer who was popular, a political writer who was a stylist, …
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
We're living a national ideology that's invisible to us because we're inside it."" At the outset of his career E. L. Doctorow told Paul Levine, ""History written by historians is …
Reporting the Universe
"The writer," according to Emerson, "believes all that can be thought can be written...In his eyes a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being …
The Book of Daniel
The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, …
Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Daniel R. Williams, former lead attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, tells the full story of the trial and ongoing struggle for Abu-Jamal's freedom, and interrogates the United States's …