Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell’s debut novel: a story of drifters, outcasts, junkies, and dealers surviving in the heart of 1980s New York City....

Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists....

A freelance film editor, Tracy Bateman goes where the work is. So when his old partner calls with an assignment, Tracy finds himself on a plane to Rome. But there are surprises waiting....

Madison Smartt Bell’s celebrated debut story collection about the daily struggles of life in America

A photographer descends into New York City’s chaotic and brutal underground in this sweeping story of the Big Apple at its seediest....

Macrae is living pretty close to the edge in the inhospitable rush of Manhattan. He becomes involved in darker matters, and indulges in an incomparably brutal act of vengeance....