Lucky King (2021)

In a dank alleyway in New York City’s Chinatown, a man works at an ancient typewriter. An ageless soul of unknown origin, he spends his days writing fortunes for a wholesale fortune cookie company. They call him Lucky King, and the fortunes that he writes come true.

It is the autumn of 2002, and the US is reeling in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack. Jack DuVal, a conservative talk radio host, is at the peak of his career, stoking war fever on the airwaves while negotiating a new, multi-million dollar contract. When DuVal receives a fortune declaring YOU WILL LOSE WHAT YOU TREASURE MOST, it sets in motion a series of events that tie his fate and that of six other people together in strange, inexplicable, and fatal ways.

Waiting (1995)

Henderson once made his living waiting tables, and now, he's blowing the lid off the profession with this compendium of all-true tales told by waiters from around the country. Marvelously written, Waiting will make you think twice the next time you make that universal gesture for the check.

Gig (2000)

“An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers.”
-- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion, Ecstasy Club, and Media Virus

Bruce Griffin Henderson contributed three pieces to this wide-ranging survey of the American economy. It gives us an unflinching view of the fabric of this country from the point of view of the people who keep it all moving. The more than 120 roughly textured monologues that make up Gig beautifully capture the voices of our fast-paced and diverse economy. The selections demonstrate how much our world has changed--and stayed the same--in the three decades prior to the turn of the millennium. If you think things have speeded up, become more complicated and more technological, you're right.