Common Carnage
9 best books like Common Carnage (Stephen Dobyns): Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Amphigorey, Train Dreams, Meditations in an Emergency, Gnomes, Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus, St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter, Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times
Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He's a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0399504338 |
The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp,"...
| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 1250007658 |
Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles...
Meditations in an Emergency
| Author | Frank O'Hara |
| ISBN | 0802134521 |
Frank O’Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, "which, by its vitality alone, became the...
| Author | Rien Poortvliet |
| ISBN | 0810909650 |
Abrams launched Gnomes into the hearts of Americans in 1977 and quickly racked up astrognomic sales in bookstores across the country, ultimately achieving a 62-week run on the New York Times best-seller list. Come join in the 20th-anniversary fun as gnomania strikes again!Did you know that gnome...
Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus
| Author | Oliver Bullough |
| ISBN | 1846141419 |
In the afternoon of April 15, 2013, I was listening to the radio. An announcer interrupted the broadcast to report that there had been a blast at the Boston Marathon. He was careful not to attribute the bombing to any one group – because we are all afraid of appearing to stereotype one group as terrorists....
St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0544617398 |
St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity throughout...
Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter
| Author | Brooke Allen |
| ISBN | 0544648935 |
The story of Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead a Muslim nation, seems lifted straight from Greek tragedy. Born to privilege as the daughter of one of Pakistan’s great feudal families, she was groomed for a diplomatic career and was thrust into the political arena when her father, Pakistan's...
Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times
Hannah Arendt, one of the most gifted and provocative voices of her era, was a polarizing cultural theorist—extolled by her peers as a visionary and denounced by others as a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler’s Germany in 1933 and became best known for...
