NYRB Classics, August 2016. Trade Paperback. No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated "its own kind of moral laws," spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the..... More
Princeton University Press, May 1982. Oversized Hardcover. The description for this book, Ruskinian Gothic: The Architecture of Deane and Woodward, 1845-1861, will be forthcoming. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Price-clipped dust jacket VG, mildly edge-worn; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An..... More
Villard Books, November 2004. Hardcover. Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation "The Vagina Monologues," is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a "good body." "In the 1950s," Eve writes, girls were "pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 2023. Paper Back. Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction This "elegant" and "unfailingly empathetic" narrative (The New York Times) follows three ordinary South Africans living through the most extraordinary reckoning with race and power any modern country has ever faced. Dipuo, who grew..... More
Scribner, August 2014. Hardcover. An evocative and stirring novel about a young woman living in the fascinating and rarely portrayed community of Yemenite Jews of the mid-twentieth century, from the acclaimed author of "The Family Orchard." In the tradition of Anita Diamant's "The Red Tent," "Henna House" is the enthralling..... More
