Richard Stark
The Handle
“Elmore Leonard wouldn’t write what he does if Stark hadn’t been there before. And Quentin Tarantino wouldn’t write what he does without Leonard.… Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better.”—Los Angeles Times
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Norman Maclean
The Norman Maclean Reader
Multifarious and moving, the works collected in The Norman Maclean Reader serve as both a summation and a celebration, giving readers a chance once again to hear one of American literature’s most distinctive voices.

   

Adam Biro
Is It Good for the Jews?: More Stories from the Old Country and the Newe
A new collection of stories from the author of Two Jews on a Train

   

Lee Siegel
Love and the Incredibly Old Man
"Mix a history of Spanish conquistadors in the New World with a porny pulp tale, and the result is this entertaining novel."—Publishers Weekly
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Pledge
"A shocker done on the level of high art…. Every word falls into place like a footstep of approaching doom."—Newsweek
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Mircea Eliade
Youth Without Youth
"Eliade would have been recognized as the great fiction writer he is if he hadn’t been such a great historian of religions. The book bespeaks good news."—Andrei Codrescu
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Peter De Vries
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo: A Novel
"Mr. De Vries…has long been recognized…as one of this country's finest contemporary novelists. Still, it seems unfair that a writer of his abilities shouldn't be more widely known.…Anyone who never read him could perhaps find no better place to start than with Slouching Towards Kalamazoo."—Thomas Meehan, New York Times

   

Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
"Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling.…As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway."—Alfred Kazin
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