City Beasts:  Fourteen Short Stories of Uninvited Wildlife
Riverhead, February 3, 2015

All-new stories about the urban worlds where animals and humans fight, love, and find common ground, from the nationally bestselling author of Cod and Salt.

In these stories, Mark Kurlansky journeys to his familiar haunts like New York’s Central Park or Miami’s Little Havana but with an original, earthy, and adventurous perspective. From baseball players in the Dominican Republic to Basque separatists in Spain to a restaurant owner in Cuba, from urban coyotes to a murder of crows, Kurlansky travels the worlds of animals and their human counterparts, revealing moving and hilarious truths about our connected ex... Read More >>

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Battle Fatigue
Bloomsbury, October 2011

A young adult novel about a boy born in the shadow of World War II. His childhood is all about war and he believes that when he comes of age there will be a war waiting for him. There is, in a place called Vietnam, and he struggles with a growing feeling that his war is wrong and that maybe all war is wrong.  This is a different kind of coming of age story about growing up with the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement , and finally the Vietnam War. It is about learning to stand up not for what youare told is right but what you believe is right.

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Edible Stories:  A Novel in Sixteen Parts
Riverhead Books, 2010

In these stories, Mark Kurlansky reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food. Through muffins or hot dogs, an indigenous Alaskan soup, a bean curd Thanksgiving turkey or potentially toxic crème brulee, a rotating cast of characters learns how to honor the past, how to realize you’re not in love with someone any more, and how to forgive. These women and men meet and eat and love, leave and drink and in the end, come together in Seattle as they are as inextricably linked with each other as they are with the food they eat and the wine they drink.

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The Belly of Paris:  By Emile Zola a new translation with an introduction by Mark Kurlansky.
Modern Library 2009

The New York Times Magazine's  2011 Food and Drink issue described this book as "The greatest food novel ever written, hands down."  Kurlansky translates Emile Zola's rich prose and even richer sense of both humor and tragedy into English. Part of Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga.  It is the story of Florent, wrongfully  accused of murder in a political uprising, he escapes from Devil’s Island and returns to Paris living in his brothers charcuterie in the newly rebuilt Les Halles market, Paris’ first exposed steel structure.  Florent is swept up in a dangerous maelstrom of food and politics with the ... Read More >>

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Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue:  A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music.
Ballantine, 2005.

Set in the summer of 1988 when both Michael Dukakis and the New York Mets seemed destined for triumph but instead disintegrate, life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels beyond his rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side neighborhood.  Between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether to cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry makers whose parents may or may not have been Nazis. His father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze.  Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighborhood. With its cast of vi... Read More >>

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The White Man in the Tree and other stories
Washington Square Press, 2000.

As described by The New York Times Book Review, “A sophisticated Novella and some wicked merry stories.” This collection of stories from the Caribbean on the comedy of differences--racial, religious, gender, nationality-- was a fiction debut greeted by rave reviews. Novelist Bob Shacochis, reviewing for the New York Times wrote, “ The White Man in the Tree...is Kurlansky’s fifth book but first of fiction, and a reader might reasonably wonder what took him so long to jump into the pool, given the strength of his talent.”  The African Sun Times wrote, “ Mark Kurlansky was born to write fiction..he has an ability to... Read More >>

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