Elizabeth Hardwick's elegant and wise novel, narrated by a woman piecing her life together from scraps, is one that delights in startling juxtapositions and the music of the American language.

Ranging from a monologue from an unmade film noir to a sonic sculpture where sense is driven by sound, these narratives take their form from the myth-making of ordinary life, partly found and partly invented out of which we try to forge a connection between what has vanished and what is yet to come.

A mix of songs, narrative episodes, and memorabilia of abandoned alleys, loft spaces, and television programs glimpsed in distorted form through the window of a neighbor's apartment.

A mix of memoir, novel and cultural history, this work looks at sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll in the American 1960s. It conveys the impact of the late 60s counterculture and the ways in which the psychedelic and countercultural currents of the era played themselves out in younger lives.

A chronicle of the noir paperbacks of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. This text examines the works of such writers as Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson, David Goodis and James M. Cain, and is illustrated with 135 paperback covers and expanded with new material on Thompson.