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What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
“Almond draws on everything from The Grapes of Wrath to the voting practices of his babysitter to dismantle the false narratives about American demo...
A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
A self-proclaimed candy fanatic and lifelong chocoholic traces the history of some of the much-loved candies from his youth, describing the business p...
One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
A New York Times Best Seller “Powerful...an important read." —Publishers Weekly New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America’...
A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us
Drooling fanatic, n. 1. One who drools in the presence of beloved rock stars. 2. Any of a genus of rock-and-roll wannabes/geeks who walk around with s...
Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a mas...
A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
"Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow is one of the best books on writing I've ever read. It's also the funniest by a country mile." --Richard Russo, ...
"A breathtaking success . . . dazzling." --San Francisco Chronicle "[A] rollicking, wide-ranging, unpredictable novel--part crime story, part coming-o...
Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
How does Steve Almond get himself into so much trouble? Could it be his incessant moralizing? His generally poor posture? The fact that he was raised ...
Confessions of a Chocoholic
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This first collection of 12 powerful stories takes a clear-eyed view of relationships between young men and women who have come of age in an era witho...
A Novel in Confessions
A two-sided look at modern love-- and lust-- by two bestselling writers at the top of their form. Two rambunctious, romantic flameouts. One boring wed...
Stories
"Steve Almond is one of our finest literary provocateurs. His stories are without equal in their beautiful terrible honesty. Stylish and finely wrough...
Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Movie Posters from the Kirk Hammett Collection
One of the world’s premier collections of horror and sci-fi movie posters amassed, not altogether surprisingly, by the dark mind of Metallica’s le...
Toward a Unified Theory of how it All Came Apart
Love in Tennessee is a fictional memoir of the author’s growing up in a small town set in the mountains of East Tennessee in the 30’s, 40’s, and...