Dzanc Books imprint: 383 books

Old Mother, Little Cat is a highly readable memoir of Gerber’s mother’s decline in health and how their relationship grew during this time, blended in with Gerber’s finding a kitten and her developing relationship with Max (the name she gives the kitten).

Riotously funny, beautifully written, and charged with emotional intelligence, this well-crafted debut investigates the world from the fringe through characters who stray so far from convention they seem to inhabit another universe.

Cookie Lily is a gathering of nine stories and one novella, mostly set in Hawaii, in which women confront yearnings and ambitions, a material culture and their own looks, and the disparity between what should be and what is.

My Father More or Less deals with the confrontation between an 18 year old boy and his estranged novelist-turned-screenwriter father.

Jonathan Baumbach's debut--a comic novel with tragic concerns. Peter Becker finds himself coming back after fourteen years to try to pick up his life where he had left it.

An honest and elegant (if not slightly disturbing) imagining of the way truth becomes elusive in long-term relationships. Separate Hours is a love story about the betrayal of love.

THE WEEK YOU WERENT HERE is a poignant and wry portrait of a young writer closing in on the last of his undergraduate days.

One of the great basketball novels written. Dark, funny and compassionate that will remind you what it means to be alive.

Nick Ray lives in a world where everything is for sale. University Ph.D.s, pig fetuses, bomb shelters, and vending-machine-dispensed live bait, to name just a few. But for the first time in a long time, Nick Ray finally has something to sell. Determined to be covert about an affair he's having with...

Who is the small, greenish girl Paul Brickner repeatedly sees skittering around the edge of his yard in upstate New York? No one else seems to see her. Ever since Spring was injured in a fluke fall, Paul has been possessed with the anxiety that he might lose her--which may not be so far from the truth after all.

Interior Design presents a gallery of people who, for all their strangeness, seem deeply, touchingly familiar as they explore the designs of their private inner thoughts.  Huddled under his covers with a flashlight, a young boy lies awake listening to his parents’ bitter arguments, and he draws maps...

The story is told from the point of view of Baltimore reporter, Jason Currant. He is a recently divorced, Viet Nam veteran. His ex-brother in law has been accused of rape in a small Iowa town and he is asked to look into it. Lynn tells this story in a way that causes the reader to really consider all possibilities.

"McGrady scrapes away at the surface truths that so many people so comfortably hide behind in order to justify their lifetimes of action and inaction, and gets at, if not definitive answers, definitive questions, that, once asked, cannot be ignored."—Louisiana State University Book Review The...

This solid biography capably covers musician Kurt Weill's life (including a tactful account of his unconventional marriage to Lotte Lenya), but concentrates on the music, refuting charges that Weill's American work betrayed his talent in search of commercial success. "If you are thinking of doing any research on Kurt Weill, THIS is the place to start." --Michael P. Nolan, Amazon Reviews