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To the Kennels
And Other Stories
Arcade Publishing
An acclaimed story collection from the author of the Shirley Jackson Award–winning novel The Hole *Booklist Starred Review* Six elephants bolt from an amusement park and vanish; where they’re found brings back memories of a forgotten dictator. A ...
Force Majeure
Arcade Publishing
Force Majeure was called a “smashing debut novel” by the Kirkus Reviews upon its original publication in 1991. A sardonic and absurdly dark, yet hilarious take on the “business as usual” of Hollywood’s twisted class system that proved Bruce ...
I'll Let You Go
Arcade Publishing
Twelve-year-old Toulouse “Tull” Trotter lives with his grandfather on a vast Bel-Air parkland estate and spends most of his time with young cousins Lucy, “the girl detective,” and Edward, a prodigy who was born disfigured by the effects of ...
A Guide for Murdered Children
Arcade Publishing
"In her astonishing thriller, Sarah Sparrow has joined the ranks of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. A warning: there is no safe place to read this book." –David Cronenberg Originally Published under the name Sarah Sparrow, Bruce Wagner's A ...
I Met Someone
Arcade Publishing
In I Met Someone—what Wagner has called a “tenderly mutilated companion piece” to his screenplay for Maps to the Stars (the film directed by David Cronenberg for which Julianne Moore won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best ...
The Psychoanalysis of Dr. Seele
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
Dr. Enoch Seele, a world-leading transplant surgeon, flourishes in the rarified realm of the New York elite, where his great power and wealth render him arrogant and inaccessible. But Enoch’s soul has other plans. An unexpected confrontation ...
The Empty Chair
Two Novellas
Arcade Publishing
The Empty Chair, a collection of two poignant novellas by acclaimed author Bruce Wagner, explores the depths of human suffering and resilience. In "First Guru," a fictionalized Wagner depicts a Buddhist in Big Sur who finds enlightenment after ...
Ponder
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
An Amazon bestseller A darkly comic tale of love and loss in Walt Disney World at the turn of the millennium Murray “Cheese” Marks and John Apple, his slimmer, richer, more single friend, have chosen the happiest place on Earth for their annual ...
A Quiet Life
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
It was just a link in an email. Michael Housen is living a typical, white-collar American life at a security company when he falls for a phishing campaign with dire implications. One click, and suddenly the US is under marshal law and bombing ...
Vivienne
Arcade Publishing
"One of the year’s most impressive debuts.”—David Gutowski, LargeheartedBoy.com “A skin-crawling drama about three generations of women and their relationships to one another. . . a satirical comedy that is at its core a book of poetry, or ...
Let Me Try Again
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
A Romantic Tragicomedy of Faith, Family, and Folly Ross, twenty-three, isn’t nearly as clever as he thinks he is. His brilliant idea to break up with his girlfriend, Lora Liamant, in an attempt to show her how terrible other men are and how ...
Dead Stars
Arcade Publishing
Bruce Wagner weaves together tales of desperation and depravity of the modern age in Dead Stars, his uproarious and sharply critical take on the obsessions of Hollywood. Telma, the world’s youngest breast cancer survivor, is threatened with ...
I'm Losing You
Arcade Publishing
An epic novel that brings together a motley crew of characters, including porn stars in love, celebrity chore-whores, plotting dermatologists, masseurs, and shrinks, among many others cast in the debauchery of Hollywood.I’m Losing You follows ...
Marvel Universe
Origin Stories
Arcade Publishing
The Marvel Universe details the lives and deaths of Wagner’s cast of characters: an orphaned billionairess, a black man wrongly convicted of murder, a schizophrenic child obsessed with the comic book character Wolverine, a cancelled TV star, and ...
Lipton's, A Marijuana Journal
1954-1955
Arcade Publishing
The final previously unpublished work from two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the National Book Award, Norman Mailer. Norman Mailer is one of America's most consequential public intellectuals of the postwar period. He cofounded ...
Nothing Is Wrong
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
This novel takes the reader on a journey into contemporary Tanzanian life in an honest and unsentimental way, from the bustling towns to its vast, dangerous wilderness. Set in Tanzania, Nothing Is Wrong follows the lives of three people living ...
The Met Gala & Tales of Saints and Seekers
Two Novellas
Arcade Publishing
The sacred and the profane come together with visceral force in two novellas by Bruce Wagner, The Met Gala & Tales of Saints and Seekers.The Met Gala follows a prominent family of influencers and would-be philanthropic socialites in the ...
Burning Sky
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
This novel brings to life a nightmare scenario in the not-too-distant future when scientists undertake a misbegotten scheme to tame the power of the sun. In Burning Sky, three generations of a family confront the life-and-death challenge of ...
The Talking Stick
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
"The situation: real women with real and painful problems. The solution: have friends. Also, magic. The result: A thoroughly engaging, completely entertaining novel by the great Donna Levin."—Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner award winner, Man ...
The King of Italy
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
Immerse yourself in a sweeping family saga spanning decades and including many famous names, including Benito Mussolini and King Victor Immanuel II. In New York Times bestselling author Kent Heckenlively's fiction debut, The King of Italy, we ...