Lüchow's and fiction books, including "La Bonne Table" (1964) by Ludwig Bemelmans, "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (1975) by Judith Rossner, "The Anatolian" (1982) by Elia Kazan, "My Life as Author and Editor" (1993, posthumous) by H. L. Mencken, "Sidewalk Critic" (1998, posthumous) by Lewis Mumford, and "The Stories of John Cheever" (2011) by John Cheever. Mencken wrote, "Nathan and I saw him for the last time at lunch at Lüchow's in June 1920. He looked somewhat thin and pasty, but we ascribed his appearance, not to illness, but to the fact that he was drinking tea. Tea in Lüchow's, the citadel
Jason Starr was hailed as one of the best crime novels of the year by Barnes and Noble.com and Bookreporter.com. That same year, Vintage Books published a collection of stories and essays on horse racing called "Bloodlines: A Horse Racing Anthology", which Starr co-edited with Maggie Estep. In 2007, Starr's thriller "The Follower", called "this generation's Looking for Mr. Goodbar" by the New York Post, was first published by St. Martin's Press and Orion Books. TV/Film rights for The Follower were purchased by Lionsgate with Bret Easton Ells attached as writer. Also in 2007, Hard Case Crime published "Slide", a second novel