Product Description: In the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open for people―but at an indeterminate cost. Daily, characters weigh their indecision against the consequences of choice...read more

Product Description: In time for the 50th anniversary of Catch-22, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book), illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of Joseph Heller...read more

Product Description: Late in the Standoff: Stories and a Novella

Product Description: Book by Daugherty, Tracy

A collection of essays by the novelist and short story writer takes readers into the heart of the American West in search answers of place and character, hope and grief, as he explores the destruction and rebuilding of community in America, past and present. Winner of the 2002 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. (Literature) (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Daugherty, Tracy (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A novel on the socialist movement in Oklahoma at the turn of the century. The hero is Harry Shaughnessy, 11, trained by his father to address meetings in halls because a boy is a crowd-drawer and can say things without provoking the wrath of mine owners.The novel looks at the exploitation of patriotism to destroy the movement around World War I. By the author of What Falls Away.Harry Shaughnessy, the young son of an Oklahoma farmer, uses his loud speaking voice to talk about his father's socialist beliefs to groups of farmers, miners, and oil workers, where he meets Eugene V. Debs and other influential socialists

Product Description: Book by Daugherty, Tracy

Hired to bring culture to the isolated Nevada town of Tilton, Jon Chase and his family encounter a conservative community built over land poisoned by years of underground nuclear testing and caught in an inertia over the loss of its economic base. A first novel.

Sam Adams, a professional cartographer, tries to come to terms with his disintegrating life when his wife leaves him and he discovers that his son is dabbling in pyromania