The Permanent Press: 217 books

A visionary who dreams about eating kindling wood called “fat lightning” and sees Christ on the Cross in his barn forms an unlikely league with his nephew’s frustrated wife in a small Southern town.

Michael Keever, former Celtic teammate of Larry Bird’s, changes his name and passes himself off as Greek-American to play in the Greek Basketball Association. When Michael appears on Greek TV in a public service spot against pollution, a viewer suspects that his ethnic background would not qualify him to play in Greece.

The second novel by the author of Passing Game, a story set in a privately funded workshop in an isolated Amish village.

Told in a series of vignettes, tall tales, and remembrances, and peopled by a host of characters as wild as the lives they lead, the immigrant community of 6th Street, Taylor, Nevada is home to a mixed bag of Eastern Europeans.

The waters are roiled in a small New England college when a part-time professor takes up with her teaching assistant. In succinct, often somberly beautiful language, Brookhouse (Running Out, etc.) writes about a breast cancer survivor, Caroline, and her yearlong relationship with Gabe, a much younger...

A Kafkaesque novel set in an unnamed Eastern European country, centers around Petir, a clerk in a state-run banking/insurance business, whose job it is to prevent handicapped people from collecting disability or insurance payments by tying them up in bureaucratic doubletalk and red tape. One of his...

Jonas Lippman—father, husband, successful psychiatrist, provider, and respected community member—seems to have everything. Why, then, does he risk all of this during an encounter with one of his sexually repressed patients? What prompts such a man? Is it done solely for his own gratification or are more complex motivations involved? Is he idealistic, simplistic, or simply a seducer?

A retired Foreign Service officer and a young state department security officer are hired to protect an Arab-American who may be the target of a terrorist threat. As these two very different men travel together into the intifada, a gigantic terrorist plot unfolds which will change both of their lives forever.

Homunculus is a dark comedy of expatriation and overdose in the hills of Central Mexico.

A collection of recipes from friends and family of Judith Shepard.

“Debbie Lynn McCampbell tells the story of a young Kentucky girl’s search for identity and independence from a family whose ever-increasing needs threaten to thwart her personal development.” —The Washington Post

A memoir-like accounting of love, betrayal, and revenge, But When She Was Bad tells of the star-crossed meeting of a man and a woman, their marriage and divorce, and their deadly struggle for custody of a child.

Jay Landesman recalls the America of the 1950s and the performers and writers he knew. His magazine Neurotica published Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Bernstein, and others, and he set up the Midwestern cabaret theatre where Lenny Bruce, Barbara Streisand, Woody Allen, and others were spotted.

Donald—a freelance photographer—has lost his artistic eye, his knack for observation, his ability to find beauty and truth in the captured moment. Maybe it’s because his editors are all half his age and insist that beauty can be categorized by brand name, and that truth is defined by their advertisers....