Cape Comedy is a quirky, pop culture thriller set in the tragically funny world of stand-up comedy.

Here She Comes Now brings together some of America's best music writers – such as Susan Choi, recipient of the inaugural PEN / W.G. Sebald award, Daniel Walters, whose credits include the screenplay for Heathers, and Alina Simon, whose novel Note to Self was described as 'hilarious' by Amanda Palmer - to explore incredible women in popular music.Often wryly amusing – even occasionally heart-rending – and covering artists from Dolly Parton and Nina Simone to Bjork,...

Is she really crazy for him? Or simply crazy?FALLING AFTER THE ALTAR…It's easy enough to sing about love, so why is it so hard to say I love you?Kayla is falling headlong into her role as Justin's decoy wife. The more she sees of him, the more she likes him. Who could resist a guy as sweet as Jus? But as the lines between reality and fakery blur, and Kayla and Justin literally see fireworks, there's an attack from another front tha...

The unforgettable novel—and the basis for the feature film—about Carlito Brigante, a Harlem drug dealer in the 1960s, and his rise to the top.Carlito Brigante is just another Spanish Harlem street punk with a poor boy's dream of flash and fast money. But as he gets older he determines that it's either take or be taken, and he knows which role he intends to play.Soon he's a mob-connected professional with an easy charm, joie de vivre, stubborn pride...

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and the LAPD homicide division tackle some of their most shocking cases to date. Half a million dollars is stolen from a fashionable department store; a young divorcée is murdered by her ex-husband's lover; three flawless robberies occur in rapid succession and a middle-aged woman is senselessly murdered in a public park.The continually erupting crime in Los Angeles stretches the team to the limit. However, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza handles all this action wit...

"Blazes like a 4.2 forty with the intrigue of a Sports Illustrated cover piece." - Andrew Gross, NY Times Bestselling AuthorStar college quarterback, Colt Walker, has it all… good looks, brains, one of the best arms in the game, not to mention potential for the Heisman and a first round NFL draft pick……until he puts it all on the line as he slides into the ugly world of sports gambling.College football referee, Frank Gastner, is a man stewing in his own misery… cons...

"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book BlogIncluded in Zoom Street Magazine's Summer Reading (Mysteries/Noir) RoundupOne of "1...

The memoir of Otis Lee Crenshaw, Rich Hall's Perrier Award-winning alter ego'My Old Man's name was Jack Daniels Crenshaw. No surprise what he liked to drink. As a very small child I remember teething - cryin' out savagely for relief. Eventually he would appear over my crib and rub Jack Daniels on his gums until he fell asleep.'Married six times, all to women named Brenda, Otis Lee Crenshaw's bourbon-fuelled odyssey takes him from the high mountains of East Tennessee to the b...

After everything that Queen has been through in her young life, you would have never thought she would hit rock bottom like this. With her man gone, Queen is now left to handle everything on her own. Meeting new friends and unsuspected enemies, Queen is now forced to become the person she never thought she would be.Find out what goes down in part two of Bred to Kill!

Charles Beaumont's untimely death in 1967 at age 38 cut short the brief but brilliant career of a writer now regarded as a master of modern weird fiction. The author of three extraordinary collections of short stories, the acclaimed novel The Intruder, and scripts for cult classic horror films and the popular TV series The Twilight Zone, Beaumont was at work on a fourth collection,A Touch of the Creature, at the end of his life.Ranging in tone from the eerie and unsettling "The Ind...

The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com, Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems, analyzing race, gender, family, and the love that finally holds us together even as it threatens to break us. Terrance Hayes writes that Abdurraqib "bridges the bravado and bling of praise with the blood and tears of elegy." The poems in this c...

This new collection by one of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists includes 100 monologues from his acclaimed plays and solo shows including: Drinking in America; Men Inside; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and more. Also included are additional pieces from Talk Radio and Notes from Underground.