A bewitching collection of short fiction-haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and lifeA circus elephant named Topsy was executed at Coney Island in the year 1900 for killing a man. That's true. So is the life of Saartjie (Sar...
A man's search for his missing wife becomes an existential quest across America in the acclaimed author's “strange and compelling” debut novel (Publishers Weekly).“I’m from Chicago originally. I went to New York, married a girl named Anne, an...
Los Angeles. A lonely writer becomes a Steve Martin impersonator. Then he falls in love, and "Steve" takes over. Here is a tale of demonic possession involving the most unlikely demon, in the most unlikely place and time (our America, today). It ...
A dark-hued, hybrid novel by a writer who “delivers our culture back to us, made entirely new” (A. M. Homes)In The Complete Ballet, John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together ...