The Glorious Ones travel the length and breadth of seventeenth-century Italy, playing commedia dell'arte in the streets and palaces with equal vigor. Founded by the ingenious madman Flamino Scala, the small company of players endures kidnappings and...
Two novellas--"Guided Tours of Hell" and "Three Pigs in Five Days"--examine the difficulty of feeling the appropriate emotions about the greatest historical tragedy or the smallest personal...
A darkly comic, fictional trip through 1970s Americana with Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley riding shotgun.
On December 21st, 1970 a drug-addled Elvis Presley showed up unannounced at the entrance gate of the White House with a handwritten request...
A glorious new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner: a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal—and the allure of the movies. With Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron as her model, Jane Smiley takes us through...
The most important document in the history of rock 'n' roll since the liner notes to Killroy Was Here.(This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested readings, and more.)
Never Mind the Pollacks, the...
These exquisite twin novellas chronicle the difficult choices that reshape the lives of two very different families. In Ordinary Love, Smiley focuses on a woman’s infidelity and the lasting, indelible effects it leaves on her children long after...