Grove at Home: January 24-30

…best bet at getting the “Karl Marx quoted in Men’s Health” square on your bingo card filled in anytime soon. “The great virtue of walking as a serious pursuit is…

10 Scandalous Facts About the 1958 Novel Candy

…comedy brilliance” (Novak). What do we mean? Read on—in 2018 the following ten facts may not shock you, but we bet they’ll get you reading. 1.) Candy was illegally distributed…

Grove at Home: May 23-29

…Santiago Baca reading his poem “A Desire,” included in his book Singing at the Gates, against a stunning natural landscape. What better way to end the week? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxaEsf5MDto Thursday, May…

Grove at Home: January 17-23

…together / Code the world with the fugitive light.” Happy weekend, friends! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXdwvDjxOkM   Thursday, January 21 There’s certainly something big in the air today. As we all stay glued…

Father’s Day Reads: The Technologist

…to his first novel, searching for a form that will express the world as it has become. Pop-up ads, search results, web chats, snippets of conversation, lines of code, and…

Win $1000 for reading and writing about one of the most exciting novels of the twenty-first century

Fourteen years in the writing, and 1664 pages in length, theMystery.doc is one of the most unusual novels ever published, combining photographs, pop-up ads, web chats, lines of code with…

Crown & Sceptre

On the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic 70th anniversary on the throne, Tracy Borman’s sweeping narrative of the British monarchy illuminates one of history’s most iconic and enduring legacies

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

The World Beneath

“Written in precise and singing prose, [Kennedy’s] powerful first novel . . . [is] a work of mythic depth, lyrical description, and gripping suspense.” —Adelaide Advertiser…

Woodcuts of Women

…of dirty pillows and the scent of “the burning skin of green chile,” of sharp sexual attractions and the hundred intimacies and antagonisms between men and women, are like no…