Nicholas Christopher

Somewhere in the Night

by Nicholas Christopher

Film noir is more than a cinematic genre. It is an essential aspect of American culture. Along with the cowboy of the Wild West, the denizen of the film noir city is at the very center of our mythological iconography....

Walk On The Wild Side

by Nicholas Christopher

"Walk on the Wild Side," the first anthology to plumb the maze of American urban life, gives us the city in all its forms: ethnic, economic, religious, political, sexual, intellectual. Poet and novelist Nicholas...

Tiger Rag: A Novel

by Nicholas Christopher

The acclaimed author of Veronica and A Trip to the Stars returns with a dazzling new novel based on one of the great legends of musical history.

New Orleans, 1900. The virtuoso cornet player Charles “Buddy”...

Veronica

by Nicholas Christopher

On a snowy night in February, at the improbable point in Lower Manhattan where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place, a photographer named Leo meets Veronica for the first time. Starkly beautiful, mysterious,...

The Bestiary

by Nicholas Christopher

From “a writer of remarkable gifts,” “Borges with emotional weight, comes a tale that is at once a fantastical historical mystery, a haunting love story, and a glimpse into the uncanny—the quest for...

A Trip to the Stars: A Novel

by Nicholas Christopher

“A large, lavishly inventive novel . . . an American descendant of The Arabian Nights . . . erudite and artful entertainment.”—The New York Times Book Review

At a Manhattan planetarium in 1965, ten-year-old...

Franklin Flyer

by Nicholas Christopher

In this shimmering work of fiction, Nicholas Christopher follows the remarkable life of Franklin Flyer–a restless young inventor named after the train on which he was born–through the tumultuous years of...