Cleveland is busy building its brand to draw residents downtown. Cleveland State University's ability to attract students is key to the city's growth, with Rob Spademan standing at the forefront of ...

Look: I don't trust any hard-boiled anti-hero that doesn't smoke. It's a small thing. But it's everything. Beyond whatever old-fangled notions of coolness a lit cigarette suggests, it above all ...

The dirty bomb that turned New York City into a wasteland in 2013’s Shovel Ready continues to have reverberations in this solid sequel. To escape the grittiness of reality, many of the wealthy lose ...

"I kill men. I kill women because I don't discriminate." Spademan, an ex-garbage-man-turned-hit-man, is clear about his purpose in Adam Sternbergh's first novel, Shovel Ready. Spademan lives in a ...

In Near Enemy, Sternbergh stays with the decaying, terrorized and largely evacuated near-future New York City setting of his debut novel. More than eight decades after Dashiell Hammett introduced Sam ...

William Spademan is a radical banker. In an era when Wall Street executives frequent talk shows to defend lavish bonuses “earned” through reckless speculation, Spademan has been working to create a ...