Craig Marberry, Author, Michael Cunningham, Author, Gordon Parks, Jr., Foreword by . Doubleday $27.50 (232p) ISBN 978-0-385-50406-5
The duo responsible for Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats pay homage to a grand and quickly changing neighborhood. Local teachers, doctors, lawyers and journalists tell their own stories, as do artists, musicians, hatmakers, dry...
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Michael Cunningham, Author . Crown $16 (176p) ISBN 978-0-609-60907-1
Cunningham (The Hours) takes the reader on a leisurely, idiosyncratic tour of the fabled town at the tip of Cape Cod. He makes the rounds of his favorite haunts, from the beaches, marshes and dunes to businesses like the halfheartedly modernized...
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Michael Cunningham, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0312425029
Engaging Walt Whitman as his muse (and borrowing the name of Whitman's 1882 autobiography for his title), Cunningham weaves a captivating, strange and extravagant novel of human progress and social decline. Like his Pulitzer Prize–winning...
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Michael Cunningham, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-29908-8
Contemplating an affair that never was, SoHo art dealer Peter Harris laments that he "could see it all too clearly." The same holds true for Cunningham's emotionally static and drearily conventional latest (after Specimen Days). Peter and his wife,...
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Michael Cunningham, Author, Connie Briscoe, Author, Nikki Giovanni, Other . Little, Brown $29.99 (213p) ISBN 978-0-316-11304-5
Photographer Cunningham (Crowns
) and popular novelist Briscoe (Big Girls Don't Cry
, etc.) honor 50 women, more than half over 60, in this collection of stunning photographs and inspiring personal recollections. While a few have officially...
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Michael Cunningham, Author Farrar Straus Giroux/Harcourt Brace Jovanovic $23 (230p) ISBN 978-0-374-17289-3
At first blush, the structural and thematic conceits of this novel--three interwoven novellas in varying degrees connected to Virginia Woolf--seem like the stuff of a graduate student's pipe dream: a great idea in the dorm room that betrays a lack...
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Michael Cunningham, Author Farrar, Strauss & Giroux $25 (308p) ISBN 978-0-374-29962-0
Engaging Walt Whitman as his muse (and borrowing the name of Whitman's 1882 autobiography for his title), Cunningham weaves a captivating, strange and extravagant novel of human progress and social decline. Like his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours ,
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Michael Cunningham, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-374-17250-3
This poignant and absorbing novel, parts of which have already appeared in the New Yorker , is one of a kind: at once a bildungsroman that reveals a remarkable gay sensibility, a serious appraisal of how parents and children relate over the years,...
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Michael Cunningham, Author Touchstone Books $15 (480p) ISBN 978-0-684-87431-9
Cunningham presents a family saga of an ambitious but frustrated immigrant and the wildly disparate paths his children undertake. (May)
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Michael Cunningham, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (465p) ISBN 978-0-374-18113-0
The cheers that greeted his literary debut, A Home at the End of the World, will resound again for Cunningham's second novel. Here his prose is again rich, graceful and luminous, and he exhibits a remarkable maturity of vision and understanding of...
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Michael Cunningham, Author, Blair Brown, Author, Colin Farrell, Read by , read by Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Blair Brown and Jennifer Van Dyck. Audio Renaissance $44.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-55927-990-1
Two very different boys are drawn together by their oppressive home lives and by a connection that is both brotherly and sexual in this superb audio adaptation of Cunningham's vivid coming-of-age tale. Clevelanders Bobby Morrow and Jonathan...
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Michael Cunningham, read by Hugh Dancy, Macmillan Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 8 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1057-9
Peter Harris, an art dealer, is having a major midlife crisis. He finds himself sexually attracted to Ethan, his wife's much younger brother, who has come to stay in their SoHo loft. Peter sees in him a younger, provocative version of his wife,...
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Michael Cunningham. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-26632-5
Two brothers grapple with aging, loss, and spirituality in this haunting sixth novel from the author of The Hours and By Nightfall. Barrett Meeks, a middle-aged retail worker with boyfriend troubles, is walking through Central Park one evening when...
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Michael Cunningham, illus. by Yuko Shimizu. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-29025-2
The latest from Cunningham (The Snow Queen) offers elegant, sardonic retellings of 10 iconic fairy tales, including “Beauty and the Beast,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” and “Rapunzel.” Using present-day details and distinctly adult observations to...
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Michael Cunningham, read by Lili Taylor and Billy Hough. Macmillan Audio, 3 CDs, 3 hrs., $19.95 ISBN 978-1-4272-6221-9
Taylor and Hough dramatize these newfangled tales with youthful charm and subtle savagery, easily swinging from the author’s gentle humor into darker recesses. Cunningham meshes ancient tales with modern interpretations, offering psychological...
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Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Avid Reader, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9040-7
Husband and wife Chabon (Moonglow) and Waldman (A Really Good Day) gather dozens of prominent writers to commemorate the ACLU’s centennial with powerful, inspiring essays on the legal organization’s milestone cases. Addressing City of Chicago v....
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Michael Cunningham. Random House, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-59134-1
Pulitzer winner Cunningham (The Hours) meditates on love and loss in this intimate portrait of a New York City family impacted by Covid-19. The story begins in April 2019, with Isabel Walker, a magazine photo editor, falling out of love with her...
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