Grove at Home: November 8-14

…release. These aren’t really emotions that can be faked.” Continue reading…   Happy birthday, Harry Hurt III Today marks the 69th birthday of the great Harry Hurt III! A journalist,…

Grove at Home: May 23-29

…27 Happy birthday, Dashiell Hammett! Today marks the 127th birthday of Dashiell Hammett, the author of hard-boiled detective fiction starring enduring characters like Sam Spade and Nick and Norah Charles….

1759

 McLynn’s ability to bring history alive triumphs again in this vivid and elegant story of a pivotal moment in world history….

Repetition

Exhibits a sensibility as nervous and contemporary–not to mention witty–as that of any novelist working today. . . . Objects play as dramatic a role in Repetition as do characters….

theMystery.doc

With praise from Alan Moore and Rachel Kushner, a groundbreaking novel told in an exciting new form, mixing fiction, memoir, prose poetry, and textual art, exploring birth, death, the Internet,…

The Player

“One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood expos’s: dark and mordant . . . savage. . . . A portrait of life among the high-rollers and deal…

Levi’s Children

Escape Velocity

“A lively compendium of dispatches from the far reaches of today’s computer savvy avant-garde . . . this book is your ideal guide to the cultural complexities of the computer…

Published in 1964, and again today: Jean Genet’s The Thief’s Journal, with a new intro by Patti Smith

Graffito of Jean Genet, Paris. Today, we’re exhilarated to be republishing Jean Genet’s The Thief’s Journal, the iconic book that launched its author into the firmament of avant-stardom, complete with…

Birth

“Well-researched and engaging . . . Birth is a clever, almost irreverent look at an enduring everyday miracle. (A-)” —Entertainment Weekly…