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Three Cheers for the Literary Anthology

“The pieces in these books and the ones that surround them were written for newspapers and magazines, which is a polite way of saying they were meant to be read and discarded. But gathering them in book form provides the chance for the prolonged life they so richly deserve.”

David Milch, Spin Doctor

In the midst of lunch, during the heyday of “NYPD Blue,” David Milch holds forth on Chekov, heroin, horse racing and gambling—a few of his favorite things.

The Heidi Chronicle

A horrible stunt accident left her a quadriplegic in 1980, but Heidi von Beltz was determined to walk again—and party with Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Ray Liotta, and her legion of Hollywood friends

The Cheerleaders

The town is shaken up very badly. But little does anyone dream that Scott Pace’s death will be the beginning of one of the strangest high school tragedies of all time.

The Brady Offensive

Sarah Brady was all proper Republican gentility. Her husband, James, severely disabled in the Reagan assassination attempt ten years ago, a hellfire political operative. Together they became the most potent partnership in the uphill battle for gun control.

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