The Open Road Blog

In a world where it takes us seconds to Tweet, meet a novelist who spent months on a single page.

For the first time, fifteen titles from celebrated writer John Gardner will be available as ebooks (on sale: September 21, 2010). Gardner (1933–1982) was a bestselling and award-winning novelist and essayist, and one of the twentieth century’s most controversial literary authors. Gardner produced more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, consisting of novels, children’s stories, literary criticism, and a book of poetry. His books, which include the celebrated novels The Sunlight Dialogues and October Light, are noted for ...

In a career spanning decades, Mitchell B. Reiss has been at the center of some of America’s most sensitive diplomatic negotiations. He is internationally recognized for his efforts to forge peace in Northern Ireland and to stem the nuclear crisis in North Korea. In Negotiating with Evil, Reiss distills his experience to answer two questions that are more vital today than ever: Should we talk to terrorists? And if we do, how should we conduct the negotiations in order to gain what we want?

Over the past three years, Reiss has traveled to some of the world’s hotbeds of terrorist ...