“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue that drama with the authority of documentary.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagine...

“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue that drama with the authority of documentary.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagine...

'Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences'If you want to be a writer, then you'd better be ready to hurl yourself at the door. That's the message from Stephen Marche in this irresistibly droll broadside. Perseverance, in the teeth of rejection, forms the essence of a writer's life. It's what it takes, so no whining.Even the greatest of writers grapple with failure. Marche's provocative, often very funny vignettes range through literary his...

Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it.Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue existing as a writer, On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer desc...

Laffrontement entre les Républicains et les Démocrates est de plus en plus violent. 39 % des Républicains sont favorables au recours à la violence pour atteindre leurs objectifs politiques. 300 fusillades de masse sont anticipées aux USA en 2022, un nombre multiplié par 80 depuis les années 1980. 46 % des Américains pensent quune future guerre civile est probable (American Enterprise Institute). Stephen Marche a imaginé cinq scénarios plausibles, écrits comme des nouvelles, qui sont suscep...

“Satisfying food for thought on the ever-changing dynamics of men and women as they interact and go about their individual lives” (Kirkus Reviews) as cultural commentator Stephen Marche examines contemporary male-female relations—with the help of his wife, writer and editor Sarah Fulford.One morning in New York City, Stephen Marche, then a new father and tenure-track professor, got the call: his wife had been offered her dream job…in Canada. Their decision...

A virtuoso performance from a literary talent who crafts a vividly drawn history of an imaginary country. In this stylistic tour de force, Stephen Marche creates the entire culture of a place called Sanjania—its national symbols, political movements, folk heroes, a group of writers dubbed "fictioneers," a national airline called Sanjair, and a rich literary history.This richly detailed story takes you to an island nation whose English-speaking citizens draw upon the English, Americ...

From a new Canadian talent who will sweep you off your feet, a love story about a man and a woman irresistibly drawn to each other despite the impediments of geography and culture.Meeting as strangers at a party, Raymond and Hannah stumble into a one-night stand with unexpected consequences. Together, they share a single, magical week before Hannah leaves for Jerusalem, where she is to spend nine months at an orthodox yeshiva learning Torah among students who disapprove of intermar...

Der Sturm auf das Kapitol war nur der Anfang. Denn die amerikanische Demokratie ist dabei zu scheitern. Das packende und erschreckend realistische Zukunfts-Szenario über den direkt bevorstehenden nächsten Bürgerkrieg in den USA.»Es sollte Pflichtlektüre für alle sein, denen der Erhalt unseres 246-jährigen Selbstverwaltungs-Experiments am Herzen liegt … Das Buch wechselt ab zwischen fiktionalen Depeschen eines zukünftigen sozialen Zusammenbruchs und Abschweifungen, ...

Des chasseurs ont retrouvé son corps nu dans la neige. C'est ainsi que s'ouvre le roman de Stephen Marche, dont le dernier ouvrage a été qualifié par la New York Times Book Review de “mélange de genres le plus excitant depuis L'Atlas des nuages de David Mitchell.” Le corps dans la neige, retrouvé dans un endroit retiré au nord du Canada, est celui de Ben Wylie, l'héritier d'une dynastie qui a constitué la deuxième fortune des Etats-Unis. Loin de là, à New York, Jamie Cabot, le fils des dom...

A “spellbinding” (Publishers Weekly) literary novel with fangs: a sweeping, genre-busting tale of money, morality, and the American Dream—and the men and monsters who profit in its pursuit—set in New York, London, and the Canadian wilderness.Hunters found his body naked in the snow. The body is that of Ben Wylie, the second-richest man in America, and it is found in a remote patch of northern Canada. Far away, in New York, the son of the Wylie fam...

What happens when artificial intelligence comes for the novelists? Death of an Author is a groundbreaking, suspenseful experiment in the meta world of man meets machine.When Gus Dupin, literary critic and scholar, finds himself invited to the funeral of Peggy Firmin, celebrated novelist and now murder victim, he is determined to find out who killed her and why. As his investigation gets underway, it is not long before he finds himself at the center of an ...