Grove at Home: October 25-31

…or your theoretical views or your personal views or whatever and make it real.” Give it a listen — this’ll get the blood pumping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeImNLISMI8   The Carnegie Medal longlist…

Grove at Home: October 18—24

…For the Taking. You will not regret listening to Nick Tosches this morning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71QCTPBamx8&list=PL8BFd4uGHN3nMBiMV6yjlsVOXwslypzMc   Lunch with Nick Tosches in 1999 Also terrific is this 1999 Salon profile of Nick,…

Grove at Home: September 27—October 3

…day to hear the wonderful voice of Jim Harrison. Here he is reading his poem “Counting Birds.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6oYKT3UqDk   Read the National Book Foundation’s Literature for Justice list For the…

Grove at Home: September 20—26

…debut novel, has made the longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction! It’s an utterly remarkable list all around — we’re delighted to see so many brilliant names, including…

9 Must-Read Banned Books

…we are sharing this list of ten Grove books that have been banned throughout their lifetime, as well as a list of resources for those who want to defend books…

Remembrance Day

Solitary

The extraordinary saga of a man who, despite spending four decades in solitary confinement for a crime of which he was innocent, inspired fellow prisoners, and now all of us,…

The Children’s Hospital

“Chris Adrian is a novelist, a doctor, a philosopher, a literary explorer, the humble clear-eyed prophet of our time. . . . The genius of his writing lies in its…

The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman

“A bona fide literary event.” –Newsweek…

Within the Context of No Context

“The writing in this book is so extraordinary. It is as if George Trow had dived down in some deep sea and had taken only the most rare, the most…