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Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing—even lurid—hallucination. From the

This title, first published in 1987, comprises of three essays which examine Lord Byron’s poetry. Some of Byron’s most famous poems are examined, includingDon Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. This

from Hollywood & God. . . this hour I tell you things in confidence,I might not tell everybody, but I’ll tell you.The world is a road under the wall to the church,the world is a

Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood a

Presents six early classics of American noir fiction: James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice , Edward Anderson's Thieves Like Us , Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock , William Lindsay Gresham'

Collects: CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1930s & 40s The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M.?Cain They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson The Big C

This adventurous two-volume collection presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of t

Back in Print After Fifty YearsClark Gifford? A cipher. A disaffected, vaguely idealistic politician in a nameless media-driven modern state where representative politics has dwindled to the corrupt t

Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to "white

Poems by the Depression-era poet, journalist, and crime novelist are featured here, presenting his depictions of fragmented urban life as well as his portrayal of the restlessness underpinning America

The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston, the inspiration for Camus's The Stranger - is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder. Double Indemnity - which followed Postman so quickly, Cain's readers hardly had a chance to catch their breath - is a tersely narrated story of blind passion, duplicity, and, of course, murder. Mildred Pierce, a work of acute psychological observation and devastating emotional violence, is the tale of a woman with a taste for shiftless men and an unreasoned devotion to her monstrous daughter. All three novels were immortalized in classic Hollywood films. Also included here are five masterful stories that have been out of print for decades.

""Such was the battle that raged between Cousin K and me: good done badly; evil done well." So relates the unnamed narrator of Cousin K as he launches into the sad tale of his childhood. With his fath