Colleen Quinn
Girl by the Road at Night
In Girl by the Road at Night, two unlikely souls come together for a short time, simply because they both…
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939
Uncommon Arrangements describes the marriages of several famous writers as works in progress. These husbands and wives struggled valiantly with…
A Dead Language
Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton is the naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly in Puccini’s famous opera. A Dead Language, sequel to…
The Concord Quartet
In the 1830s Concord, Massachusetts, was only a small farming town, but it managed to attract the most extraordinary minds…
The Interpretation Of Murder
In 1909, Sigmund Freud paid his one and only visit to the United States. He referred to Americans as “savages”…
Sex with the Queen : 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
It’s not easy to be queen! Royal marriages are arranged for political advantage, not for the happiness of the…
The Tattoo Artist
Editors' choice
Young Sara Ehrenreich is in love in New York City. She is Jewish and bohemian, artist and anarchist, and completely…
Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
In Borges and the Eternal Orangutans, the theme is that there is no such thing as a coincidence. The narrator—a…
Adiós Hemingway
Writer Ernest Hemingway was a “man’s man,” known for his zeal for violence in many forms, from bullfights and safaris…
Pinkerton’s Sister
For some people, a love of reading becomes a grand passion. Alice Pinkerton, housebound madwoman in turn-of-the-century New York City,…
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