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Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery

Pamela Sneed

An incendiary literary work more relevant now than ever.“if anger were an ax/it would split me open/and if this is a sermon/let it be my granddaddy’s sermon/my grandmother’s foottapping/steady...

ISBN: 9781531504847

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Manhattan

Hélène Cixous, Beverley Bie Brahic

Hélène Cixous

Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic

The luminous tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors

ISBN: 9781531502898

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Shimmer

Sarah Schulman

A revelatory portrait of McCarthy-era Manhattan—back in print!It is 1948 in Manhattan. Aspiring reporter Sylvia Golubowsky pays her dues in the steno pool at the tabloid New York Star, along with...

ISBN: 9781531502928

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Out with the Stars

James Purdy, Robert J. Corber

James Purdy

Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto, Abner Blossom comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. But those who knew Vane...

ISBN: 9781531501204

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I Am Elijah Thrush

James Purdy, Robert J. Corber

James Purdy

On its surface, I Am Elijah Thrush is the story of Millicent De Frayne and her sensational half-century campaign to win the love of Elijah Thrush. Elijah, after ruining the lives of countless men and...

ISBN: 9781531501198

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What I Did Wrong

John Weir

Set in a rapidly gentrifying New York City determined to move beyond the decimation of a generation a decade earlier, What I Did Wrong is a day in the life of Tom, a forty-two-year-old English professor,...

ISBN: 9780823299454

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The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket

John Weir

Before the onset of his irreversible decline, Eddie Socket always suspected he was on the verge of something. Now that “something” has arrived in the form of Merrit Mather, an attractive older gentleman...

ISBN: 9780823299430

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Looking for Jimmy

Peter Quinn

In this stunning work chronicling the author’s exploration of his own past—and the lives of many hundreds of thousands of nameless immigrants who struggled alongside his own ancestors—Peter Quinn...

ISBN: 9780823299478

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Hour of the Cat

Peter Quinn

It’s just another murder, one of the hundreds of simple homicides in 1939: A spinster nurse is killed in her apartment; a suspect is caught with the murder weapon and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the...

ISBN: 9780823297955

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The Man Who Never Returned

Peter Quinn

Peter Quinn’s The Man Who Never Returned is a noir-ish, stylized detective narrative set in 1950s New York. It follows Fintan, a retired detective turned private investigator who has been given the...

ISBN: 9780823297979

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NEW YORK ReLIT

Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery

Manhattan

Shimmer

Out with the Stars

I Am Elijah Thrush

What I Did Wrong

The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket

Looking for Jimmy

Hour of the Cat

The Man Who Never Returned

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