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Cover art for SEX AND THE CITY
NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 1996

 Fascinating and haunting insights into the love lives of the rich and randy in New York. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 9, 1998
edited by Ken Foster

"A round from one of New York's newest literary lions' dens."
Short stories and essays, original publications, reprints; and selections from the KGB reading series itself all belly up to the literary bar in this anthology. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN’S PIER
FICTION
Released: April 1, 2001

"Lucid prose limns complicated people whose dilemmas illuminate crucial moral choices, large and small. Very fine fiction indeed."
From short-story author Packer (Mendocino, 1994), a reflective and probing first novel about a young woman reassessing her life after her fiancé is crippled. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE POST’S NEW YORK
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2001
edited by Antonia Felix

"History doesn't get easier to take than this."
Top-notch compilation celebrating 200 years of New York City news as seen in the pages of the New York Post, with half-tones and line art throughout. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 4, 2002

"Lackluster."
Rebecca Bloomwood is back, and she still owes everybody money: a rehash of the much funnier Confessions of a Shopaholic (2001). Read full book review >
Cover art for THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 21, 2003

"Poetry in paragraphs."
As ebullient as Walt Whitman and as succinct as Emily Dickinson, a young novelist (John Henry Days, 2001, etc.) looses his five senses on his native New York City--and allows the sixth some play, as well. Read full book review >