Marc Estrin

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2005
  • Latest Book:
    December 2020
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Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Education of Arnold Hitler

    At once a chess master, a linguist, an athlete and an innocent in love, Arnold passes through the racial tensions of Mansfield, Texas (home of the author of Black Like Me) in the 1950s, the anti-war movement at Harvard, and both the Upper East Side a...

  • Insect Dreams

    The metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa was surely one of the momentous transformations of modern times. Kafka’s burning vision of the future ended with Gregor being swept into a dustbin. But what if Gregor were to survive and live to challenge the wrong...

  • Golem Song

    By some incalculable force of human attraction, Alan Krieger has two lovers.A man of his girth and compulsion, a man who cannot stop talking and who believes the world to be completely irrational, should not take one companion for granted, much less ...

  • The Lamentations of Julius Marantz

    Who would benefit if they really did bring The Rapture on?Marc Estrin follows another of his strange protagonists through a world troubled by what it knows and by how it applies that knowledge.From the first page, we are plunged into a global riot of...

  • The Annotated Nose: An Annotated Edition of William Hundwasser's Cult Classic The Nose

    The most unlikely life of a most unsightly man. Marc Estrin discovers that another writer's novel-THE NOSE- not only has spawned a bizarre cult among the nation's youth but also is based on the extraordinary life of a real person-an outcast named Ale...

  • Skulk

    Marc Estrin's Skulk is the sixth of his critically-acclaimed novels for lovers of intelligent fiction. Radical prof Richard Gronsky is swept off his feet by T.L. Skulkington, a sassy, right-wing superstar, during one of her liberal-bashing talks. The...

  • The Good Doctor Guillotin

    The Good Doctor Guillotin follows five characters to a common destination -- the scaffold at the first guillotining of the French Revolution:Dr. Guillotin, of course, a physician and member of the National Assembly, involved in many important events,...

  • The Good Doctor Guillotin: An Anatomy of Five

    The Good Doctor Guillotin follows five characters to a common destination -- the scaffold at the first guillotining of the French Revolution:Dr. Guillotin, of course, a physician and member of the National Assembly, involved in many important events...

  • Tsim-Tsum

    Fiction. "Estrin communicates a sadness but also gives us a hero of such nobility that we can't help but hope that our current period of unspeakable human violence will turn out differently"--Albuquerque Journal....



  • And Kings Shall Be Thy Nursing Fathers

    Ruminations of Tchaikovsky’s corpse ...

    Some religious traditions see the newly dead as confused after stepping through the door. The Egyptian Book of the Dead, for example, is an instruction manual, a tutorial, a collection of spells...

  • Speckled Vanities

    Indian Springs, Nevada (pop 991), at the edge of the Mojave, is "downtown" to three institutions: - Creech Air Force Base, home to drone operators in their air-conditioned trailers, - High Desert State Prison, Nevada's largest, newest, and most moder...

  • Hyde

    Hyde lives! (It’s only the well-meaning Jekyll who is dead.) Cloak and cudgel discarded, he is now a suitably smooth operator. But as Mike Tyson observes in the epigraph, “Everybody’s got a plan until he gets punched in the mouth.”...

  • Kafka's Roach

    As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous cockroach. This, the most famous opening sentence of modern literature. And this, the most famous closing sentence of modern thought:...

  • Kafka's Roach: The Life and Times of Gregor Samsa

    As World War I began, Gregor Samsa, a good man turned-roach, burst into the world, and literature has never been the same. Kafka’s 1915 Metamorphosis was a long short story, with an unhappy beginning, middle, and end.In Kafka’s Roach, Estrin (a...

  • The Annotated Nose

  • The Pensees of Alan Kreiger by Alan Krieger

    After having had more than his say in Golem Song, and The Prison Notebooks of Alan Krieger (Terrorist), Alan has pushed into line again to make sure that these distillates of wisdom would not be lost in the après-moi deluge of Monsieur Tromp.S...

  • The Pense?s of Alan Kreiger by Alan Krieger

  • Proceedings of the Hebrew Free Burial Society for Indigent Jews on Staten Island

    Alan N. Krieger died at age 70, at the Morningside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Pelham Parkway, Bronx, NY. According to his Advanced Directives, he was to be buried at The Hebrew Free Burial Society for Indigent Jews, Staten Island, NY, along...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marc Estrin has published 18 books.

Marc Estrin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Proceedings of the Hebrew Free Burial Society for Indigent Jews on Staten Island, was published in December 2020.

The first book by Marc Estrin, The Education of Arnold Hitler, was published in April 2005.

No. Marc Estrin does not write books in series.
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