A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary exhibition of contemporary art held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer's mission will be to sit down to write every morning in a Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of town, transforming himself into a living art installation. Once in...

Max Winter used to have a different name and life a long time ago. Now, in 1930s New York, Max survives by writing thinly disguised tales of the man he used to be for pulp magazines, tales of the forgotten frontier and a Wild West outlaw. But as his life begins to crumble, and he watches the world move to the brink of war, Max finds himself thinking like an outlaw again.--adapted from back cover.

"Una banda de ladrones consigue robar algo que, pese a no tener precio, está asegurado en veinticinco millones de dólares: los cinco manuscritos originales de las novelas de Francis Scott Fitzgerald, que hasta hacía poco yacían en una cámara acorazada bajo la biblioteca de la Universidad de Princeton. Un botín imposible de resistir. Bruce Cable regenta una prestigiosa librería en la ciudad de verano de Santa Rosa, en Camino Island....

Si un misterioso libro relatara tu vida, ¿te atreverías a leerlo hasta el final? Nicholas Blohm, un joven escritor sin demasiado éxito, conoce en el cementerio adonde suele ir en busca de inspiración a un hombre con aspecto de mendigo que, en realidad, es un vendedor de libros usados. El hombre le enseña un extraño manuscrito que deja fascinado al escritor. Cuando el vendedor desaparece y Nicholas prosigue la lectura, el manuscrito se queda...

"For fans of legendary pulp author H.P. Lovecraft, there is nothing bigger than the annual Providence-based convention the Summer Tentacular. Horror writer Colleen Danzig doesn't know what to expect when she arrives, but is unsettled to find that among the hobnobbing between scholars and literary critics are a group of real freaks: book collectors looking for volumes bound in human skin, and true believers claiming the power to summon the Elder God...

Love by degree: "When Ellen Cunningham decides to go back to school as a mature student, she knows that money is going to be tight. She also knows she's lucky to find inexpensive lodging in a house near campus, but she didn't count on having to live with three college-aged boys - or deal with the bad-tempered landlord, Reed Morgan. Reed has no patience for college-boy antics, but the chemistry between him and Ellen might warm him up to his new tenants..."...

An elegant, page-turning thriller in the vein of Night Film and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, this tautly crafted novel is about stories: the ones we tell, the ones we keep hidden, and the ones that we'll do anything to ensure they stay buried. When literary agent Peter Katz receives a partial book submission entitled The Book of Mirrors , he is intrigued by its promise and original voice. The author, Richard Flynn, has written a memoir about his...

This capstone novel in Library of America's Bernard Malamud edition brings together his three final novels: The Tenants, about the growing tension between two male writers -- one Jewish, the other Black -- who are the only inhabitants of a crumbling Manhattan tenement house; Dubin's Lives, a revealing study in the perils and and promise of love in middle age; and God's Grace, a postapocalyptic tale of upended evolution in which redemption depends...

Manhattans & murder: "Bestselling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher's new book tour brings her to New York for Christmas. But she learns that Manhattan can be murder when she sees notorious Cabot Cove crook Waldo Morse--now playing a sidewalk Santa. She agrees to meet him the next day, but when Jessica shows up, she instead witnesses a murder. With the police slow on their feet, and the victim's wife fast on the run, Jessica decides to do what she does...