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Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues

Dalkey Archive Press
169 pages
$15.95


“In his writing, Reed is a great improviser, a master of collage with an amazing ability to syncretize seemingly disparate and divergent materials into coherent ‘edutainments’―forms of surprise, revelation, and frequent hilarity.”

– Robert Elliot Fox

You Know How to Love

Philomel Books
32 pages
$17.99


“With warm, gentle rhymes and soft, sweet art, this book celebrates the power we all have to love, and to use that love to make the whole world a better, kinder, more welcoming place.”

-From the publisher

Magic Time

Smith & Kraus
311 pages
$19.95


“A fifth-row center seat for a perceptive look at a vital time on the Broadway boards.”

-Kirkus Reviews

Tight Little Vocal Chords

KERNPUNKT Press
145 pages
$18


“It’s a book of flesh-filled phantoms singing in pornosophical chorus. Their song will leave you silky, limp-lidded, stained, and strangely sated.”

-Joanna Ruocco

The Sound of Hope: Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust and World War II

McFarland
318 pages
$45


“Brown shows how for persecuted and imprisoned Jews, music became a way to preserve their humanity and at times even their lives. … Brown has succeeded admirably in bringing together in one volume so much important research.”

The Washington Post

The Bible With and Without Jesus

HarperOne
512 pages
$34.99


“Fascinating . . . The chapter on the original meanings of sections of the Sermon on the Mount is alone worth the price of admission. A rich and important offering.” 

Publishers Weekly

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