Paul Reidinger: 14 books

Paul Reidinger's witty and moving meditation on a life shared with two chow chows ranges widely across landscapes both physical and metaphysical, from travels in the Mediterranean to a youthful encounter with Gore Vidal, but in the end it is a reflection on private and public catastrophe and...

Paul Reidinger's fourth novel, first published in 2001, is a closely observed meditation on youth and sex, age and loneliness, and the undying hope for connection at the heart of human lives. The novel also offers a glimpse of that elusive bird, the happy gay couple, in their native environment -- the home they've made for themselves.

At the heart of Paul Reidinger's new novel The Bad American, we find Roy North, an American prone to daydreaming, and his mother, a widowed woman with little patience for daydreamers or much else. When a health crisis engulfs her, their little family of two (plus an assortment of hangers-on) embarks...

Paul Reidinger's second novel, first published in 1989, concerns a mysterious family murder and the efforts of an idealistic young lawyer to figure out what really happened even as his professional relationship with the murderer, a surly teenage boy, turns his own world upside-down.

Paul Reidinger's first novel, originally published in 1986, describes the lives of three San Franciscans in their 20s -- he, she and and he -- who find themselves caught up in a design for living that breathes the spirit of the 1980s.

A polymathic collection of essays -- personal, political, literary and sensual -- from America's most underrated writer.Now with working links!

An American writer offers a riposte to Alexander Hamilton and a fresh interpretation of the Bill of Rights. Author's note: As of 18 July 2012, I have slightly modified this piece to emphasize the view that corporations cannot be considered citizens and therefore should not be able to claim...

A great American story – a true American story – an intricate orchestration of themes intimate and grand: love and war, pioneers and politicians, medievals and moderns, charters and constitutions, names and blood, revolution and civil war, wealth and poverty, disappointment and determination,...

In nine discrete but related essays, an American writer considers the darkening arc of American life -- social, cultural, moral and political -- since November 22, 1963. The essays' subjects include (in addition to the Kennedy assassination) the Brock Turner matter, the abandonment of labor and the...

A decade in the lives of three college pals -- good boys all -- whose paths cross and recross as they approach thirtysomething still trying to sort out the little disturbances of man: the tangled webs of friendship, the wheat and chaff of profession, the gilded cage of sex, the slippery meaning of "good" in a world that isn't. (First published by Dutton in 1993.)

An American writer examines the story of his country and the story of himself and finds an unexpected braid between the two. Various sacred cows, including Lincoln and Shakespeare, are unsparingly considered, and a fresh interpretation of the constitutional realm, from the Declaration of Independence through the Civil War amendments, is offered.

There’s no family like an unhappy family, and there’s no family more unhappy than the Mackenzies, whose only daughter has married down, down, down, wincingly down. Yet there’s something more about the hated son-in law – himself an accomplished hater – to give a chill to Isabel, the Mackenzies’...

In an American city of old churches and ambitious pagans, death comes calling for an elderly woman -- a bit ahead of schedule. God takes a meeting or two, and the eternal questions arise. A funeral becomes a party, a son inherits a home with an uninvited guest, an iron lady is in the house, and they...

An American writer considers the historical forces that flowed into Dealey Plaza and those that flowed from it, and reaches a conclusion about the truth of the event and its enduring meaning.