The new novel by the author of Blue Bossa
is a story of two secret loves, of the kind that at the time the book is set—1960s San Francisco—were both afraid to speak their name. Hero Jake Roseman is a civil rights lawyer, high in the...
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Bart Schneider, Author . Shaye Areheart $24 (353p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5442-8
In this prequel to the author's 2001 novel, Secret Love
, Schneider, founding editor of the Hungry Mind Review,
delivers a polished, faintly old-fashioned tale of a violinist doomed to unhappiness in early 1960s San Francisco. At 40, ice...
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Bart Schneider, Author . Three Rivers $14.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-307-23813-9
At the start of this offbeat crime thriller from Schneider (Secret Love
), concert violinist Elizabeth Odegard hires eccentric Twin Cities PI Augie Boyer, who enjoys poetry and smoking pot, to investigate her husband, Perry, a dealer in rare musical
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Bart Schneider, Author Viking Books $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-87695-2
Ronnie Reboulet, the Chet Baker-esque hero of this coolly passionate debut, has lost a lot: his teeth, his looks, his wife, his daughter and his career as a singer and trumpeter. On the positive side, he's beaten a heroin habit and found Betty, a...
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Bart Schneider. Soft Skull (PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-59376-435-7
Schneider’s second Augie Boyer mystery (after 2008’s The Man in the Blizzard) takes the marijuana-smoking Midwestern PI out of Minneapolis and off his drug of choice only to deposit him in the pot-saturated heart of Northern California’s Russian...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Bart Schneider, Author Random House Value Publishing $32 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-70546-9
In May 1994, Schneider ran a questionnaire about the effect of race on readers' lives in the magazine he edits, Hungry Mind Review. The responses evolved into an issue of the magazine, which in turn inspired this book. But the pieces here are not...
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