THE GODDESS OF FILTHY THINGS, 12 characters. A story inside a story inside a story inside a story. A dramatic labyrinth that attempts to bring the density of the novel and the fluidity of the movies to the stage. At its core—a mystery. What happened to Jerry Green, a writer? His daughter Jessica thinks if she can tell her father's story she'll find him and get him back. The only one who can help her is Jack, who, haunted by Jessica since she was a child, is writing a play about her—the pla...

NOT ON THE MAP, 10 characters. An insane ensemble comedy. Peta Thessaloniki Von Wildergeist Flynn (called Pet), a world-renowned psychoanalyst in her eighties, has retired with her young lover to a not-on-the-map Sicilian farmhouse where no-one with "emotional emergencies" can find her. But then the doorbell rings, and Bobby Vitale, a stranded New York movie director, arrives, his rented car dead on the way to the airport. And then the doorbell rings again…and keeps ringing…with the invasi...

A partridge dares to answer an elephant. A genie steals a man's wife. A sage carries iron in his hands and wisdom in his tongue. These are not gentle bedtime stories — they are the living breath of Fuuta Tooro, a land straddling the southern edge of Mauritania where history and legend long ago agreed to share the same voice.Mouhamad Dieng gathers eleven tales and legends from this region's oral tradition: creatures of the savannah locked in contests of power and cunning, djinn and ...

MAN RUNNING, an original screenplay, based on a story by Robert M. Young and Edward Pomerantz. Today's the day! The day Lou Robinson has to make up his mind, make a life-changing decision. A day he has to juggle all the jumbled relationships in his life, when he's running late, and there are all these women coming on to him, and a cab driver who quotes Martin Buber, and a traffic tie-up because the Pope is in town, and a chase by the cops who think Lou is a terrorist, led by an Israeli bom...

“Bits and pieces / scraps / what’s left on the barber shop floor / after a haircut / before the barber sweeps up”In this unsentimental poetic memoir, award-winning screenwriter Edward Pomerantz captures significant moments of his life exactly between “before” and “after.” With the precise eye of a filmmaker, the soul of a playwright, he knows exactly how many frames to cut in order to evoke poignant images that are sharp and tender.

Dive into the mating habits of privileged New Yorkers in this hilarious collection of Bushnell's newspaper columns that inspired the hit HBO series.Sex and the City is a fantastic and sometimes terrifying foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers. Traveling in packs from lavish parties to high-end clubs, Bushnell's vividly candid characters live out the never-ending search for the perfect relationship. Bushnell's firsthand co...

Great books never go out of style, and the New York Times recently re-recommended this classic bestseller, an illustrated gem, "Ilene Beckerman's heavy-hitting mini-memoir of a stylish life."Beckerman's runaway bestseller —adapted into an Off-Broadway hit by Nora and Delia Ephron — articulates something all women know: that our memories are often tied to our favorite clothes. From her Brownie uniform to her Pucci knockoff to her black strapless Rita Haywort...

30sh virgin recluse Leon will inherit billions if he can just get out of his house, date a girl, and get a job. Problem is, he's allergic to the sun and almost everything else. His late father's attorney hires marine biologist Grace to reluctantly become his life coach, but she can't protect him from a gold-digger on the prowl. Screwball comedy is reborn in this homage to Hollywood's golden age.

From Monty Python legend Eric Idle comes this wicked and enthralling comedySet during the glorious days of the Bush Empire before they finally invaded and killed irony, The Writer's Cut follows Stanley Hay, a joke writer. He has a girlfriend, a writing partner and a career going nowhere in particular. Wisecracking, ambitious and horny, Stanley decides that he is going to change that by writing a novel. This is where things start to spiral out of control.Caught up i...

From USA Today bestselling author Kelly Rey comes the next hilarious Jamie Winters Mystery …Legal secretary and sometimes-sleuth Jamie Winters thought she'd seen it all... until now.When Oxnard Thorpe, the Adult Diaper King of New Jersey and one of Parker, Dennis's most important clients, is found dead in the swimming pool of his sprawling mansion on his wedding night, his bride gives Jamie and her teenaged sidekick, Maizy, the green light to find the killer. Could it be th...

To Portland, With Love is a short story from the bestselling Story of Us series.Rory and Houston are living a seemingly perfect life in their picturesque house on the lake, but all is not as rosy as it seems. Rory’s discontent with the new yuppie lifestyle she feels she’s supposed to adopt is bleeding into all aspects of their marriage, and Houston is not at all pleased. Will the stress of Rory’s first book signing bring them to the brink?

"This extraordinarily revealing diary"—now a Netflix series—"paints a more penetrating portrait of our time's Glitterati Era than any of Andy's . . . canvases" ( Forbes).This international literary sensation turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern American culture. Filled with shocking observations about the lives, loves, and careers of the rich, famous, and fabulous, Warhol's journal is endlessly fun and fasci...