Lev Raphael: Author Appearances

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Vampyre:

The Vampyre of Gotham by Lev Raphael The Vampyre of Gotham (2012)

Grief-stricken by his wife's untimely death, a wealthy New York banker turns to sexual abandon in the bordellos of 1907 New York. Then one fateful night, after a mysterious attack, he dies to his old life and is reborn a Vampyre. Once obsessed solely with making money and social advancement, he's now driven by a new, perverse hunger for blood. Written in a period voice, this deeply erotic work takes us into dark corners of the psyche as it explores a secret world of power and obsession.

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Historical Fiction:

[cover] Pride and Prejudice: The Jewess and the Gentile (2011)

What happens to pride and what happens to prejudice when Lizzy Bennet's family struggles with being Jewish in a society that looks down on them?  
Find out in this comic, loving mash-up.

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[cover] Rosedale in Love (2011)

Written in a period voice, Rosedale in Love audaciously revisions Edith Wharton's beloved classic The House of Mirth, offering readers a timeless American story of greed, envy, scandal, love and revenge.

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Fiction:

[cover] Winter Eyes (St. Martin's Press, 1992; reissued with the "lost" prologue, 2010)

The author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning Dancing on Tisha B'av now offers a haunting, remarkable novel about secrets, silence, and revelations—a tale of the terror of the past that controls and divides an immigrant family, most notably from their American-born son...

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[cover] The German Money (Leapfrog Press, 2003)

Part mystery, part family saga, a new novel in which the problems of a contemporary Jewish family find their roots in the unspeakable secrets of holocaust survivors...

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[cover] Secret Anniversaries of the Heart: New and Selected Stories (Leapfrog Press, January 2006)

In a collection that encompasses over twenty-five years of his award-winning stories, Lev Raphael proves himself a visionary like James Baldwin, and shares Anita Brookner's gift for dramatizing the pain of seemingly quiet lives in stories that are both passionate and precise.

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Mysteries:

[cover] Hot Rocks (Perseverance Press, 2007; reissued, 2012)

Fitness = Death when Nick Hoffman heads back to the gym right after a vacation, finding himself caught in a "Desperate Housewives"-type mystery. Michigan Muscle is a state-of-the-art health club adjacent to the State University of Michigan. It's a palatial complex for fitness, but every palace has its intrigue, and when Nick stumbles across a dead trainer, he's drawn into a web of passion and privilege unlike anything he's ever experienced before.

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[cover] Burning Down the House (Walker, 2001; reissued, 2012)

"Lev Raphael's lacerating wit fillets the fatted calves of academia, roasts them with the hot breath of satire, then serves them up in the sauciest of mysteries."
—Val McDermid, author of A Place of Execution

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[cover] Tropic of Murder (Perseverance Press, 2004)

"Lev Raphael has done it again -- another mordantly witty mystery featuring everyone's favorite acerbic English professor, Nick Hoffman. Relax with Tropic of Murder and take an entertaining, exotic Club Med vacation without even having to get out of your favorite chair. "
—Dean James

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[cover] Little Miss Evil (Walker, 2000; reissued, 2011)

"Nick Hoffman is back, relegated to the basement of his college so he won't get into trouble. But when someone torches his mailbox, Nick gets the hint that an arsonist is carrying a flame for him. As ever, Lev Raphael is witty, biting and on the nail when it comes to the groves and gripes of academe, majoring in mayhem and murder along the way."
—Ian Rankin, author of Dead Souls

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[cover] The Death of a Constant Lover (Walker, 2009; reissued, 2011)

"Lev Raphael sets his campus mysteries at a factory-like state university in fictitious Michiganapolis, Mich., and populates them with the kind of stupid students and pretentious faculty members who blacken the eye of academia. Happily, he also gives his narrator, a lowly English professor named Nick Hoffman, license to mow down these intellectual pretenders with his scathing wit."
New York Times Book Review

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[cover] The Edith Wharton Murders (St. Martin's Press, 1997; reissued, 2011)

Nick Hoffman, desperate to get tenure, has been saddled with a thankless task: coordinating a conference on Edith Wharton that will demonstrate how his department and his university support women's issues. There's been widespread criticism that SUM is really the State University of Men. Problem is, he's forced to invite two warring Wharton societies, and the conflict between rival scholars escalates from mudslinging to murder. Nick's job and whole career are on the line unless he can help solve the case and salvage the conference.

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[cover] Let's Get Criminal (St. Martin's Press, 1996)

Professor Nick Hoffman can't understand how his supercilious new office mate Perry Cross beat out other candidates for the brand new position in Canadian Studies. How did Cross get hired when he's under-qualified? Just as troubling, Nick discovers that Cross's past intersects with his own in disturbing ways. When Cross is found dead and the verdict is murder, Nick becomes a prime suspect since he was one of the last people to see Cross the evening he was killed. Nick has no choice but to investigate on his own.

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Nonfiction:

[cover] Writer's Block is Bunk (2012)

The prize-winning author of twenty-two books in genres from memoir to mystery to mashup, Lev Raphael has had a unique, colorful career as author, reviewer, and talk show host. He's taught writing in colleges, universities and workshops around the country, and in Writer's Block is Bunk, he shares his vast experience in publishing, and in touring with his books on three continents. Written with encouraging humor and honesty, Writer's Block is Bunk offers advice for both newbies and experienced authors on writing and the writing life. Ranging across topics like how to do a book reading, building your audience, responding to fans, and finding inspiration, Raphael doesn't pull any punches, but he also has fun, and so will you reading this smart and timely little book.

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[cover] Book Lust! (2012)

Lev Raphael brings together his best essays, reviews, and reflections on the writing life from the literary magazine Bibliobuffet. Whether writing about memoirs, Shakespeare Denial, or some puzzling fans of his, in Book Lust! Raphael displays his trademark wit and erudition.

Provocative and revealing, Book Lust! offers Raphael's unique take on books, literary translation, authorship, touring, and much more. He's reviewed for two decades on-line, on-air and in print; has published hundreds of essays, stories, reviews and blogs; and has also authored twenty-one books in genres from memoir to mystery.

Raphael has been a published and prize-winning author for three decades; his fiction and essays have been taught at universities around the country; he's done hundreds of invited talks and readings on three different continents at venues from Oxford University to The Library of Congress; and he had his own radio book show where he interviewed Salman Rushdie, Erica Jong, Julian Barnes and many other authors. Join him in Book Lust! for a highly entertaining conversation about books, authors, and the book lover's life.

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[cover] Stick Up For Yourself! (Free Spirit Publishing, 1999)
By Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael and Pamela Espeland

Stick Up For Yourself! is the ultimate resource for any kid who's ever been picked on at school, bossed around, blamed for things he or she didn't do, or treated unfairly—and for any kid who sometimes feels frustrated, angry, powerless, or scared. Simple words and real-life examples show how children can stick up for themselves with other kids (including bullies and teasers), big sisters and brothers, even grown-ups. Kids learn how to build relationships, become responsible, manage their anger, grow a "feelings vocabulary," make good choices, solve problems, set goals, and "store" happiness and pride. Questions from real kids are paired with answers about how to handle specific situations calmly, confidently, and effectively. A special note to parents and teachers explores the "self-esteem backlash" and explains what self-esteem really is—and why kids today need it more than ever.

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