Bruce Warrick is a young, Harvard MBA with a new position for a global firm in New York managing a Top 50 hedge fund. Despite newfound wealth, a beautiful family and a home in Greenwich, this investment genius suffers from a debilitating sleep disorder. His powerful CEO compels Bruce to join a private, hedge fund association -- the Keynes Society at the Harvard Club of New York. Bruce learns that the Keynes Society privately controls $1 trillion in assets in a dark pool under an enigmatic Board of global elite. When his firm tells him to trade stocks illegally at the Keynes Society, he may...

At Tim Finnegan's Irish wake a Boston advertising executive, Rudy Bloom, and Harvard Professor, Dr. Thomas Dedalus meet for the first time. Bloom's tragically beautiful wife and poetess, Penelope Bloom, is meeting with her rich, handsome publisher, Blaine Boylston, who brazenly covets Penelope. After a witty dinner party with Harvard scholars, Bloom and Dedalus wander into the brothel of Bella Kirke in Boston's infamous Combat Zone. Afterward, at the Parker House Dedalus shares his battle with alcoholism and Bloom confides a life-threatening ailment. At home Penelope is tempted by Blaine but...

In this rich, dark comedy the USA has evolved in 2020 into a global corporate nation or "corpornation." Sub-divided by a great, brick wall into the northern Bluefish and southern Redfish States, AmericA, Inc. is run by Travis Bash, President ] CEO. Perpetually at war, its Supreme Court disbanded, riddled by lobbyists and voracious for capital, Bash drafts Bob, a destitute Yale poet, to transform America, Inc.'s corporate culture. Bob's job is to market to shareholders the vulgar, bewildering and corrupt culture of this brutal corporate nation to increase share value. Nothing is sacred in...

The Silver King portrays the intrigue within the underground movement of the Contras seeking the first democracy for Nicaragua. This miracle of freedom is shaped by Sheridan Quince, an American pilot and fisherman, who aspires to catch-and-release a world-record tarpon, or silver king, with a fly rod in the Caribbean Sea. After meeting at the Key Largo Bar in San Jose, Costa Rica, Elsa Paraiso leads him underground into the power struggle between the US-backed Contras and Sandinistas, financed by the USSR. The players are Ronald Reagan, Oliver North, Fidel Castro, Oscar Arias, Daniel Ortega...

Epic "Bourbon Street" portrays the rise of a gifted, young and penniless photographer named Aeneas who wanders Bourbon Street to photograph in black-and-white the images of ancient, legendary jazz players. Discovered by an Uptown debutante, Aeneas transforms into a portrait photographer of New Orleans' aristocracy. "Bourbon Street" is a gallery of vivid portraits of the chimeras of Aeneas. Illuminating, white hot comedy and dark, existential contrasts blend pixels into fine prose about the quest for a better life based upon one's dreams. "Bourbon Street" beckons you to the gallery of the...

"Essential Lentz" is a compendium of the published writing of David B. Lentz spanning his creative writing career since his college days at Bates. His collected works in "Essential Lentz" feature generous excerpts from his literary novels, stage plays and poetry. CONTENTS From "The Silver King: A Novel" (2000) From "Bourbon Street: A Novel" (1982, 2001) From "The Day Trader: A Novel" (2001) From "Bloomsday: A Tragicomedy" (2004, 2010) From "AmericA, Inc.: A Novel" (2007) From "AmericA, Inc.: A Stage Play" (2008, 2010) From "For the Beauty of the Earth: A Novel" (2010) From "Bloomsday: The...

In this prescient, dark comedy, first published in 2007, the USA has transformed into a dystopian, corporate nation or "corpornation." Sub-divided in 2020 by a great, brick wall into the northern Bluefish and southern Redfish States, AmericA, Inc. is run by a ruthless egomaniac, Travis T. Bash, CEO. Perpetually at war, governed by a radical oligarchy, riddled by corrupt lobbyists and a banal popular culture, Bash drafts Bob, a poor Yale poet, to communicate and transform AmericA, Inc.'s corporate culture. Bob's job is to re-brand and sell the vulgar, bewildering and corrupt culture of this...

Dr. Rich Proffette of the Wharton School in 1999 discovers the Holy Grail of Wall Street: a breakthrough stock trading algorithm with an uncanny ability to predict stock price movements. His trading model, Market Equilibrium Shock Theory, is widely hailed as one of the great economic ciphers of the 20th century and has rewarded him with a vast fortune amid Wall Street's longest Bull Market rampage. It seems that stock traders everywhere from underworld hackers to global banks and the U.S. government want to seize the precious intellectual property of Rich Proffette. Everyone except the one...

This tragicomic epic brings to life in America the enduring masterpiece of Homer's "Odyssey" and the Irish saga of Joyce's "Ulysses" in a Father's Day in Boston after the Vietnam War in 1974. This new "Bostoniad" portrays the American immigrant descendants of Leopold and Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus of Dublin. After Tim Finnegan's Irish wake Rudy and Penelope Bloom of Beacon Hill meet Harvard Professor, Dr. Thomas Dedalus. "Bloomsday" narrates in a pixilist style a chorus of New England voices blending to render new verses of the greatest epic of antiquity and the 20th century's most...

America's literary legacy is essentially defined by best-seller lists but without them, how would readers of "serious writers" know what to read? If we don't recognize our literary genius, then do we risk being relegated to the collective rag and bone pile of national literary mediocrity? Will future generations look back and wonder: was this really the best literature which America was capable of publishing? "Novel Criticism" offers readers of serious writers a better way to discern the best literary novelists and to cull their work from mainstream, commercial best-sellers. Lentz's new model...