FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2010
"A post-punk crack at Hollywood's legacy that's funnier than its predecessor, and just as cringe-inducing."
Another slice of drug-inspired ultraviolence from O'Neill (
Down and Out on Murder Mile, 2008, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2010
"Empathetic, vividly rendered and impossible to put down."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 3, 2009
"Will ring as true in American-lit classrooms as in church support groups--an absolute gem that secures Karr's place as one of the best memoirists of her generation."
Acclaimed poet and bestselling memoirist Karr (English Literature/Syracuse Univ.;
Sinners Welcome: Poems, 2006, etc.) deftly covers a vast stretch of her life--age 17 to her present 50.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 1, 2009
"As real as it gets."
NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2009
"An arresting, personal glimpse into the merciless world of drug and behavioral addiction."
Compassionate case studies of addicts in varying phases of dependency, from
New York Times Magazine contributing writer Denizet-Lewis.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 5, 2008
"A brilliantly written, brutally honest memoir."
New York Times reporter Carr bluntly reveals his former life in hell, when he juggled two talents: smoking crack and filing news.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2005
"In all, a revelatory tale that reads like the testimony of a shell-shocked survivor."
A disjointed, dreamlike (and prizewinning) tale by Barcelona journalist Amat descends into the coca farms of Bahia Negra, Colombia.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 1998
"If, with the rock band Dr. Hook, you can sing of the '60s that "I was stone and I missed it," here's a perfectly legal, nonparanoid way to recapture days that have disappeared over the hills like wild horses."
LeFanu's new anthology (Obsession, 1995—co-edited by Stephen Hayward) features 16 tales energized by the upbeat power of the '60s preoccupation with death, dancing, and sex.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 1995
"Welsh often settles for shock value, sleazy sex, and heroin chic, but he's actually a better writer than many who've been here before, especially Burroughs and his epigones."
A collection of 21 stories and one novella—Welsh's second book, but his first published stateside—that will inevitably be compared to last year's Booker winner, James Kelman.
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