Serious Beach Reads

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author will discuss his new short story collection at three different NYC events.

The underground comix genius died in 1975, but his life is ripe for a Hollywood biopic. 

In 1852, the former slave and forever abolitionist called out America’s basest hypocrisies.

“Everybody’s Head Is Open to Sound” looks at the life of the legendary record producer, but rarely gets out of the studio.

Offensive? Impossible? Absurd? All boxes are checked in this rollicking novel that can’t keep its hands to itself.

“Hey, Mary!,” “Animal Pound,” and “The Red Badge of Courage” bring gender identity, political upheaval, and war into focus.

The protagonist’s mania for kinky sex gets in the way of a refugee story — and doesn’t even titillate.

Seventy years ago, the novelist’s debut, “The Dark Arena,” stared into the abyss of the concentration camps the Allies discovered at the end of World War II.

In “The Summer We Ate Off the China,” a former slave meets an old overseer,  tourists try to parse the Dali Museum, and MeToo and HR take the stage.

The compelling novel captures America as the exploitations of the Gilded Age crashed into the anger of the early-20th-century’s dispossessed.