Success is difficult but…Tomorrow morning, you could wake up as a full-grown rhinoceros and:Charge your way to successUse audacity to reach your goalsBe happier than you’ve ever been beforeMake your life an exciting adventureHave the persistence and tenacity necessary for successNever worry againSucceed at the world’s most profitable hobbyAchieve more and have a better balance in the six major areas of your l...

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WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH MARGARET KEANEThe full screenplay by award-winning Ed Wood writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for acclaimed director Tim Burton's film Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz.A rare close-up look into a corner of the 1950s and '60s artworld and a perfectly observed account of a dysfunctional marriage, Big Eyes tells the true story of Margaret Keane, an artist who lived and worked in virtu...

"Drought is as full of compassion for its characters—and humanity, in general—as it is unexpected in its storytelling. Hess has written a novella that manages to be simultaneously tender, macabre, and transcendent." —Brian Alessandro, author of Performer Non Grata and Julian's DebutWhen Parnell, a recluse from Newark, New Jersey, inherits a dilapidated tobacco farm in Kentucky from his estranged Uncle Willy, he moves to the farm hoping to jump start his e...

The world’s great religious and philosophical traditions often include poignant testimonies of spiritual turmoil and healing. Following episodes of harrowing personal crisis, including addictions, periods of anxiety and panic, and reminders of mortality, these accounts then also describe pathways to consolation and resolution.In Making Peace with the Universe, Michael Scott Alexander reads diverse classic religious accounts as masterpieces of therapeutic insight. In the co...

Death and the soul's journey to the afterlife are two of the most abstract conceptions we will probably ever ponder. Unlike other books by mediums that are filled with case studies, interviews, stories from clients and retellings of near-death experiences, AFTERworld was birthed solely from Scott Alexander King's need to understand that which is essentially impossible to understand. Created from the author's own notes, compiled over many years of listening to others speak on the subject, h...

When Neal Tate, a just-out-of-rehab NYC party columnist, falls for Dewalt, a Harlem drug dealer he meets at a gay bathhouse, he discovers that navigating an honest relationship is a lot more difficult than chasing down the perfect pair of skinny jeans.Neal finds support from his fashion-loving friends: Rovvy, a blond boy-toy married to Andres Palamos, the shady millionaire owner of Pop magazine where Neal works; Nick, "It-boy" style writer for the New York Times w...

This is the audiobook sequel to that children's book for cats of all ages, The Wild Cats of Piran. This time Queen Cat Felicia will have to face down the wicked General Rat, and his disgusting minions. She also meets Tartini, the Ghostly violin player, who is locked in a nightly duel with his famous Devil's Trill Sonata. Meanwhile, some of the humans in Piran are starting to fall under the wild cats' enchantment, with unpredictable results. Author and narrator Scott Alexander Young is on t...

In this pair of novellas, award-winning author Scott Alexander Hess provides a richly textured portrait of the shifting landscape of the 20th century American Dream.The Root of Everything is a multi-generational saga tracking fathers and sons from Germany's Black Forest to Missouri as they experience tragedy, triumph, forbidden love, and hard-earned reckonings.In Lightning, a young man in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1918 is driven by his deep love for horses and his emerging ...

The vampire group call the Fang are seeking the destruction the their worst enemy, the Vatican. To accomplish this, they have acquired a low yield nuclear bomb. Upon hearing about the danger that was before them, the Vatican sent in their best troops lead by Rebecca Van Stocks (their current and one of their best warriors in the fight against evil) to stop the Fang before they unleash their rain of terror. Unknown to the Vatican, the Fang had changed leadership and with it, their tactics i...

The christening of the world's first skyscraper on the shores of the mighty Mississippi River is the backdrop for River Runs Red, Lambda Literary Award finalist Scott Alexander Hess' new historical LGBTQ novel set in St. Louis, Missouri circa 1891.Calhoun McBride and Clement Cartwright are men from different worlds. Young Calhoun works backbreaking, midnight shifts at the Snopes Brewery…and earns a little extra selling his body to eager men. Clement (inspired by famed architect Lou...

*Soon to be a TV series*Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club PickFor fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves.Sixteen-year-old Odile vies for a coveted seat ...