Complete Catalogue

Clovis, by MIchael Fessier

This fable of an intelligent parrot mixes Voltaire, Nathaniel West, and Frances, the talking mule. This remarkable satire was written in one week by a Hollywood screenwriter whose credits included You Were Never Lovelier, with Fred Astaire.

Twilley, by Bruce E. Fleming

Baroque and brilliant, decadent and down-to-earth. The book's hero steers through a small town department store under a cloud of allusions and linked fragments of the world's consciousness.

Martian Dawn, by Michael Friedman

This spare, funny fiction debut offers a playful imagining of the lives of a fictional movie-star couple, Richard and Julia, who are reminiscent of the millionaire and prostitute played on-screen by Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in the Pygmalion update Pretty Woman. While they are involved in shooting the science-fiction movie Martian Dawn, their lives intersect with those of an unlikely assortment of other characters, including a would-be sea captain, a film producer and his therapist, a cosmonaut and her astronaut boyfriend, two members of the Biosphere team, and a Tibetan Buddhist rinpoche.

Bertram Cope's Year, by Henry Blake Fuller

America's first gay novel.

“Entertaining....eminently readable work....distinguished by its beautifully evoked period atmosphere, its sly humor....an engaging and quite undeservedly neglected comedy of bad manners.”—The New York Times

Not On The Screen, by Henry Blake Fuller

“His sweep is never grand, his genre is the miniature.”—Carl Van Vechten

King Cophetua, by Julien Gracq

“Mr. Gracq is one of the more stimulating and original imaginations in contemporary French literature.”—The New York Times Book Review

Adapted for the film, Rendez-vous a Bray, 1971, directed by Andre Delvaux and starring Anna Karina

The Dead Of The House, by Hannah Green

“This wondrous book is a true American classic....Here is a pure response to life transformed into the immediacy and timeless magic which is art.”—Tillie Olsen

Downstream, by J.K. Huysmans

Downstream is the best example of what the French naturalists wanted a novel to be. It is also the shortest and most autobiographical of Huysmans's works and therefore serves as a wonderful introduction for the contemporary reader to the pleasures of Joris Karl Huysmans.

Gabrielle de Bergerac, by Henry James