John Nichols

The Sterile Cuckoo (2013)

The story of a college romance between our narrator, a rather bland fellow named Jerry, and Pookie, a girl who never stops talking. The novel shows their relationship from awkward first meeting, through the rush of that first infatuation, on to its whimpering demise. The setting is an alcohol-sod...

The Nirvana Blues (2000)

The Milagro Beanfield War (2000)

Que Viva Snuffy Ledoux!I read this book 35 years ago for the first time when I was fifteen years old. It remains one of my all time favorites. After re-reading - because one of my friends told me I reminded him of Amarante Cordova - and because I always considered myself to be more of a Jose Mo...

The Empanada Brotherhood (2007)