1900—the Gilded Age! Stanford White, the world’s most renowned architect, creator of Madison Square Garden, falls in love with the exotic Gibson Girl, Evelyn Nesbit. They become dangerously involved with a demented millionaire, Harry Thaw. Amid a crowd of merrymaking theater goers, atop the splendid Madison Square Garden, another drama, a tragedy, explodes into the first and most gripping crime of the century.
Strange, disturbing stories, full of that lusting madness which, at times, seems as attendant as our own shadows. Stories full of tenderness and love, as well, but love that veers in unexpected directions. Here conventional frames of understanding can bend or crack apart, allowing fiction to interfuse with a mercurial reality, flinging ordinary appearances into disarray. Even fairy tales occasionally intrude upon the commonplace, to play havoc with familiar surfaces. Dreams can become preemptive. Richard Geha explores the frightening, often bizarre, passions that disrupt mundane lives; he ventures into those enigmatic spheres that lie as close at hand as our dreams, as the haunting ghosts of memory, as that face in the mirror of "the other." The theme of the primal scene, a child's bewildered understanding of adult passion, resonates alluringly through all these stories. These elegant tales are intelligent, complex, poetic and frequently darkly humorous. In them, readers will certainly feel the diverse parts of themselves boldly, firmly, sometimes rudely, embraced.
Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life’s timeless questions. In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner—American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor—Elie Wiesel covers fascinating and often perilous political and spiritual ground, expounding on issues global and local, individual and universal, often drawing anecdotally on his own life experience. We hear from Wiesel on subjects that include the moral responsibility of both individuals and governments; the role of the state in our lives; the anatomy of hate; the threat of technology; religion, politics, and tolerance; nationalism; capital punishment, compassion, and mercy; and the essential role of historical memory. These conversations present a valuable and thought-provoking distillation of the thinking of one of the world’s most important and respected figures—a man who has become a moral beacon for our time.
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