CHATTY TOUR OF WORLDWIDE industrial hemp production points to future opportunities for US farmers, factories. SOLID B

AN AMBITIOUS OVERVIEW OF CHINESE civilization yields a loosely assembled grab bag of fascinating information. SOLID B

FROM MOON CAKES TO MAO TO MODERN CHINA : AN INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE CIVILIZATION
CN Times Books
2014

A CULINARY HISTORY OF New York City, from the Lenape’s corn cakes to today’s cronut. Lots of information! SOLID B

NEW YORK CITY : A FOOD BIOGRAPHY
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
2013

A VERY NEW YORK comedy of manners; Upper West Side neighbors drawn together by chance and changes. SOLID B

VISIBLE CITY
Houghton Mifflin
2014

A DISQUIETING, KAFKASEQUE FABLE about crime and punishment in Japan is also about truth and love and silence. SOLID B

SILENCE ONCE BEGUN
Pantheon
2014

A SNARKY COUNTERCULTURE SATIRE is packed with fun classical and pop-media references, a bit too much plot. SOLID B

CHATTY, CATTY HUMOR targets the stresses and anxieties of midlife, middle-class moms. Wry, but warmhearted! SOLID B

THE EARLY YEARS OF CRYONICS, in all their improvisatory cowboy chaos, described by a founding enthusiast. SOLID B

FREEZING PEOPLE IS (NOT) EASY : MY ADVENTURES IN CRYONICS
Lyons Press
2014

A DELICATELY WROUGHT PORTRAIT of a marriage traces the ups and downs of love in spare yet poetic prose. SOLID B

DEPT. OF SPECULATION
Knopf
2014

A TRANSATLANTIC ROMANCE SET against the backdrops of music journalism in London, big finance in New York. SOLID B

FIX YOU
self-published
2014