“Mesmerizing.” —The Washington Post Read More

Baker here pens historical fiction of an intricate, epic, fabulous sort. Read More

In this remarkable novel, Baker meticulously re-creates the splendor and seediness of turn-of-the-century New York-especially the street, where immigrants, politicians, grifters, and prostitutes all desperately mingled, playing their new roles. By James Klise Read More

East side, West side, the fantasy of New York. By Shaun O'Connell Read More

Kevin Baker's spectacular new novel is often more a nightmare than a dream, but I didn't want to wake up. By Ron Charles Read More

In 1911, the dreamland section of Coney Island was decimated in the most spectacular fire of the last century. By FEED Magazine. Read More

Picture Coney Island, land of hot dogs, Ferris wheels and games of chance. American mecca for the bored. By Cecile S. Holmes Read More

Kevin Baker loves playing with history. By Naomi Glauberman Read More

Time and Again This novel of turn-of-the-century New York covers Coney Island, gangsters and the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. By Thomas Mallon Read More

It’s phenomenal. Read it. It’s the actual embodiment of that reviewer’s cliché, the tour de force. by Amanda Jeremin Harris Read More