Madison Smartt Bell

Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative comes across like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that...

The first and definitive biography of one of the great American novelists of the postwar era, the author of Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise, and a penetrating critic of American power, innocence, and corruption Robert Stone (1937-2015), probably the only postwar American writer to draw...

Madison Smartt Bell’s celebrated debut story collection about the daily struggles of life in America

A freelance film editor, Tracy Bateman goes where the work is. So when his old partner calls with an assignment, Tracy finds himself on a plane to Rome. But there are surprises waiting....

A photographer descends into New York City’s chaotic and brutal underground in this sweeping story of the Big Apple at its seediest....

Madison Smartt Bell’s debut novel: a story of drifters, outcasts, junkies, and dealers surviving in the heart of 1980s New York City....

Macrae is living pretty close to the edge in the inhospitable rush of Manhattan. He becomes involved in darker matters, and indulges in an incomparably brutal act of vengeance....