Magazine provides the text for the first chapter of this author's novel "Damascus Gate." Link to a book profile and ordering information.

Links and references to biographies of Stone, and to "Dog Soldiers", "Damascus Gate", "A Flag for Sunrise," and other books.

Stone talks about the Beats and the impact drugs and alcohol on his generation.

Reynolds Price discusses several favorite novels, then chooses Stone's work for "a sensibility of superb toughness, subtlety and an even-handed tenderness."