Focuses on the story of a wealthy, self-centered newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife in World War II-era New York City.

It's 1958, and a sleazy New York pulp-fiction publisher finds himself in trouble after publishing a supposedly non-fiction account of a heist at a Mafia-run nightclub which was actually written by an 18 year-old showgirl with ambitions of writing for the New Yorker. With both the cops and the crooks after them, our heroes are about to learn that reading and writing pulp novels is a lot more fun than living them.

When Bad Things Happen to Rich People is a novel of social satire, a black comedy set in Chicago in the summer of 1995. The novel's protagonist, Nix Walters, is an adjunct instructor of English at a communications college in the loop with few prospects for advancement. He had become a literary punch line when his novel, touted as the next big literary phenomenon, was universally panned by critics. He and his pregnant wife, Flora, are struggling financially;...

"The story of an editor caught up in a publishing scandal around the manuscript of a renowned and beautiful female poet."-- Provided by publisher.

"A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition -- both buoyant comedy and devastating satire -- by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the opportunity to continue his work in Manhattan while...