Stephen Koch's next book---due out from Counterpoint Books in 2005---will be The Breaking Point: Ernest Hemingway. John Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles--- the true story of the murder that shattered the friendship between two of America's greatest writers, set in the tumult of the Spanish Civil War. If you are interested in literature, here is one of the truly revealing inside stories. If it's politics and history that get to you, this totally fresh look at the Spanish Civil War will seize your imagination.

In 2003, Stephen published The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction. (Random House.) For many years, Stephen was chair of the Graduate Writing Program in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, which many people regard as the pre-eminent MFA wiring program in the United States. During years of listening to the problems that so often frusturate gifted young writers, Koch developed something of a sixth sense for the pitfalls that face them. The Modern Library Writer's Workshop has already been through many printings: its bright green cover is becoming a familiar sight in writing courses across the country.

Many writers, both novices and established professionals---have told him that they find The Writer's Workshop not only inspiring but---even better!---useful. That's the feedback he loves. (For a look at some of The Modern Library Writer's Workshop, please click here).

In 2004, Koch revised---in fact, rewrote---his immensely controversial book of 1994: Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg, and the Seduction of the Intellectuals. Double Lives tells the story of how propoganda and the clandestine world of secret services merged in the events that led to the Second World War.

	Alan Furst
	Author of The Polish Officer

The new version has been published by Enigma Books. (For a quick look at its opening, please click here).