Stephen King's endorsement of this debut novel propelled it to the top of the best-seller list. IIt's the story of fat, alcoholic, tobacco-addicted, and terminally hopeless Smithson Ide, known as Smithy, whose life is, to say the leas...

Withis firstwo novels , Ron McLarty won acclaim for fashioning authentic characters that hook readers from the first page. With Art in America, McLarty has invented another unforgettable protagonist in one failed writer, Steven Kearne...

When Ron McLarty's debut novel, The Memory of Running, appeared, it became clear that this man is a triple threat: actor (movies, stage, and TV), playwright and author. Now, with the publication of Traveler, he has beaten sophomore s...