Julius Erving with Karl Taro Greenfeld. Harper, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-218792-5
On the playgrounds of New York City, at the University of Massachusetts, in the fledgling American Basketball Association, and ultimately with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, Dr. J became one of pro sports' first true superstars—paving the way for...
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Karl Taro Greenfeld, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (442p) ISBN 978-0-06-058722-2
Greenfeld's ground zero perspective on SARS—he was editing Time Asia
when the first rumors of a virulent disease sweeping mainland Chinese hospitals hit his desk—brings reportorial immediacy to this chronicle of how epidemiologists...
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Karl Taro Greenfeld, Author . HarperCollins $25.99 (355p) ISBN 978-0-06-113666-5
These two memoirs explore life with an autistic family member.
Boy Alone: A Brother's Memoir
Karl Taro Greenfeld
. HarperCollins
, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-113666-5
Sibling rivalry—and love—of a ravaging kind is the subject of...
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Karl Taro Greenfeld. Harper, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-213239-0
In this absorbing first novel, Greenfeld (Boy Alone, a memoir) brings to life the capacious lofts, self-involved chefs, and occasional rent control holdouts of Manhattan’s affluent TriBeCa neighborhood (home to Robert De Niro and Jay-Z, among other...
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Karl Taro Greenfeld. Harper, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-213242-0
When even a seemingly abstruse economic work like Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century becomes a runaway bestseller, it’s clear inequality is in the zeitgeist. Thus a work of fiction that tackles “this climactic age of American...
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Karl Taro Greenfield, read by Kirby Heyborne, Sean Runnette, Cris Dukehart, Todd McLaren, Paul Boehmer, Emily Durante, and Dan John Miller. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.75 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-61120-911-2
Centered upon the intersecting lives of a handful of TriBeCa residents, Greenfield’s novel charts the struggles, failures, and successes of a sound engineer, a gangster, a chef, a sculptor, a film producer, and a memoirist. With each chapter told...
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Karl Taro Greenfeld, Author . Villard $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-50276-7
In the Asian economic surge of the late 1980s, deputy editor of Time Asia
Greenfeld leaves his New York home in search of "a big life," as he calls it, of sex, drugs and a sense of purpose. But a funny thing happens on the way to...
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Karl Taro Greenfeld, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (286p) ISBN 978-0-06-017039-4
While working as a reporter for an English-language Tokyo newspaper in 1988, Greenfeld, born in Japan and raised in Los Angeles, was struck by the discrepancy between what he experienced of Japanese life and the business topics that comprised his...
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