Sterling Watson: 5 books

Sent to live in the humidity of rural Florida with his grandparents and his sixteen-year-old Aunt Delia for the summer, twelve-year-old Travis becomes absorbed in the closed ways of small-town life. Captivated by Delia, Travis watches her attempt to find a place for herself in the socially stunted,...

For Merelene Durham its been fifteen years of coping, of determination not to lose her purchase on this world: a world that has become almost unendurable since her rakish husband, Mayfield, fled after encephalitis turned their son Rolands mind into a strange, shell-holed country. Blind Tongues is the...

Sterling Watson is one of Dennis Lehane's best friends, and Lehane will help with the promotion. Watson and Dennis Lehane run an annual writers conference in Florida, the faculty of which includes best-selling writers like Laura Lippman, Stewart O'Nan, Andre Dubus III, Tom Franklin, and others....

“A brilliant, fearless look at the savage rites of passage that exist in the fraternity of American sports . . . gripping and unforgettable.” —Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River   In 1964, seventeen-year-old Billy Dyer is a newcomer to Oleander, a Gulf Coast Florida town whose old guard...

From hard scrabble origins on the Plains of North Dakota, to longshoremen organizing on Manhattan’s West Side docks, to living the life of a Bohemian poet in Los Angeles and beyond, Thomas McGrath’s literary aspirations took him far from his humble beginnings.For over six decades, McGrath created...