Carl Reader: 44 books

Dirty Girl, Broken Woman is an erotic tragedy set in Ronald Reagan’s 1980s America, when the Sexual Revolution was dying and the AIDS epidemic drove a final spike into love’s heart. Narrated by Tucker Brophy, a confused bartender/journalist/writer, it tells the story of Kay Weatherby, a stunning...

A Shadow and A Silhouette is a memoir of the riotous 1970s taking place at the Bucks County Playhouse in the artist's colony of New Hope, Pennsylvania. A neurotic young writer and a scurrilous young actor find they have loves and fears and ambitions in common and strike up a friendship based on imbibing,...