THE GODFATHER'S REVENGE

Just released: the first paperback edition of The Godfather's Revenge. In it Mark Winegardner moves the Corleone family onto the biggest stage of all: the intersection of organized crime and national politics. New Orleans underboss Carlo Tramonti is publicly humiliated when the U.S. Attorney General has him deported to Colombia. Michael Corleone, though haunted by the death of his brother Fredo, knows that this is no time for weakness--and so, with fearless consigliere Tom Hagen leading the way, a new path for the future is forged. Buy it now at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

THE GODFATHER RETURNS

Thirty-five years ago Mario Puzo’s The Godfather was published and popular culture was indelibly changed. In The Godfather Returns, acclaimed novelist Mark Winegardner tells the rest of the story.

3 X 33--an anthology of ninety-nine short stories, three stories apiece by thirty-three North American writers born after 1900--proceeds from a simple idea: read one story by a writer and you're studying the story. Only if you read a group of stories by the writer are you studying both the stories and the writer. A single story by a writer can't begin to take the measure of that writer's development, range, and career, but a small group of stories often can. Read more