Helene Stapinski, Author . Villard $23.95 (273p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6014-6
In her newest, after Five-Finger Discount
, Stapinski places her life under the microscope, this time looking at love and music. Stapinski evocatively recounts her life in 1990s New York City, where she tries to balance a freelance writing career...
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Helene Stapinski, Author Random House (NY) $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-46306-1
""The night my grandfather tried to kill us, I was five years old, the age I stopped believing in Santa Claus, started kindergarten, and made real rather than imaginary friends."" This chatty and often engaging memoir of growing up among a rogue's...
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Helene Stapinski. Dey Street, $26.99 (298p) ISBN 978-0-06-243845-4
Italian-American author Stapinski (Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History) mines her immigrant family’s roots to write a part memoir, part murder mystery that is entertaining in its plot if not elevating in its prose (“Ma would tell me about
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Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler. Simon & Schuster, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-982171-66-7
In this entertaining if somewhat overstuffed saga, journalist Stapinksi (Murder in Matera) and graphic designer Siegler (Dear Client) untangle the threads linking Siegler’s grandfather, Jules Schulback, to DC Comics publisher Harry Donenfeld, film...
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