Henry Carter Hull

Lewis Miner, tired of reading the glowing accounts of his high school alumni's successful lives, decides to send the Eastern Valley High newsletter an update on what is going on with those who were not and never will be very high on the social ladder.

The classic story of Gulliver's voyages to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and other strange places, written as a satire of the author's world.

Sequel to: Catch-22. Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder and other familiar characters are approaching the end of their lives and the century.

Fleur Daxeny, a beautiful, unscrupulous woman who makes her living crashing the funerals of wealthy women in order to take advantage of their newly vulnerable widowers, but her scheme falls apart when she lingers too long at the home of multimillionaire Richard Favour, and becomes entangled in the problems of his family.

Lyndon Song, a renowned New York sculptor who gave up his art career to move to California and become a Brussels sprouts farmer, finds his new life threatened by a golf course developer who wants to buy his land, and his brother Woody, a movie producer who, unbeknownst to Lyndon, has been hired by the developer.

"B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider--a film he's convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made, a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety...

"Raised in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: 'to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake.' Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological...

A satire on French politics follows the fate of amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal after he is drafted to rule the unruly French. Bored, Pippin is instrumental in starting a revolution.

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes--for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous--as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places"-- We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities,...