Jared Chiziver is a single father and professional pick-pocket, devotee of Jean-Paul Belmondo and foreign films, and a suave ladies' man. His son Ben is sixteen, a bookish semi-introvert, a star on his school's track team, college bound and gay. Thei...
Billy Carlyle is a professional fighter starting to lose. His eyes cut too easily and his friends -- Gabriel, an aspiring actor, and Sam, an artist preparing for her first gallery show -- try to persuade Billy to leave the ring. From the streets of M...
Beautifully raw and honest, Adam Berlin’s novel follows two characters through the long darkness in New York after 9/11. This is about the running, the drinking, the standing still, and the unquantifiable missing. Berlin’s book is shattering,...
These are stories about movies and the underside of trying to live up to male tropes. The men in these stories hurt and get hurt. They push too hard and not enough. They disappoint others and themselves. Their movie-moves damage. And their small succ...