Ethan Andrew Canin

The Emperor's Club: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script)

Based upon Ethan Canin's short story "The Palace Thief," this movie stars Oscar-winner Kevin Kline as William Hundert, a passionate and disciplined classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world altered when a new student challenges his principles, resulting in a life lesson that will sti...

For Kings and Planets: A Novel

Ethan Canin, the acclaimed author of America America and The Palace Thief, is “one of the best fiction writers of his generation” (The Miami Herald). For Kings and Planets follows the lives of two young men and the woman they both love. Orno Tarcher arrives in New York City from Missouri, carrying w...

Carry Me Across the Water: A Novel

Breathtaking in its suspense and beauty, Carry Me Across the Water is the story of a man’s turbulent journey, with his family, through the central years of the twentieth century. Young August Kleinman escapes from Nazi Germany to America, where his mother’s words—“Take the advice of no one”—fate him...

Pompeii: Echoes from the Grand Tour

Pompeii: Echoes from the Grand Tour is a collection of fifty-three photographs of Pompeii, never before published, shot by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice. This book includes unique images—visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition—coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet, and Jay Par...

Blue River

The long-awaited novel by the author of the bestselling Emperor of the Air is a story of astounding power and sensibility. Lawrence and Edward are two brothers who haven't seen each other in ten years. Lawrence--a drifter, a gambler, a man of questionable character--appears on the cautious Edward's ...

The Palace Thief: Stories

“Extraordinary for its craft and emotional effect . . . [Ethan Canin is] a writer of enormous talent and charm.”–The Washington Post“Character is destiny,” wrote Heraclitus–and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected tur...

America America: A Novel

In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family’s generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is running for...

Emperor of the Air

EMPEROR OF THE AIR "explores tricky family relationships and tender moments of self-discovery with a voice of compassion rarely found in contemporary short fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle). Whether his characters are struggling to save trees in their yards, their marriages, or themselves, Cannin r...

Ethan Canin

Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960) is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the ...

Writers Harvest No. 2: A Collection of New Fiction

Emperor of the Air

The Palace Thief Stories

For Kings and Planets

The Palace Thief : Stories

Emperor of the Air: Stories

Blue River

Emperor of the Air: Stories