Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
The original ‘Great American Novel’, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession.
The Night Inspector – Frederick Busch
The Book The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the…