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The Guest Lecture
by Martin RikerWith “a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I’ve read in current American fiction” (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker’s poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a…
Aquarium
by David Vann…York Times), “a truly great writer” (Irish Sunday Independent), “one of the best writers of his generation” (Le Figaro)—and, quite possibly, the greatest American author you have yet to discover….
Barney Rosset
…For the next sixteen years, Evergreen introduced many world-class writers to American readers, such as Beckett, Genet, Grass, Ōe, Duras, Paz, Walcott, Nabokov. The journal published until 1973, and was…
Three Plays by Kaufman and Hart
by George Kaufman“Kaufman and Hart may be the American comic successors to Moli’re. These three plays are still delightfully heady comedy which should bring delight to readers. . . . The comedic…
The Race for the Triple Crown
by Joe Drape…that make the sport of kings endlessly fascinating. The Race for the Triple Crown is an absorbing read and should not be missed.”–Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabuiscuit: An American Legend…
The Long Fuse
by Don Cook“Delineating the political culture of corruption and bribery that pervaded London and disgusted Americans like Benjamin Franklin, Cook convincingly concludes that the war was lost as much in London as…
Logic
by Olympia Vernon“Yes, in the land of American Idol and The Bachelor, there remains a segment of the public that relishes experimental fiction that challenges the heart and the mind. Vernon’s second…
Kill Hole
by Jamake Highwater“An extremely literate compelling fiction about timeless human dilemmas. . . . A Native American answer not only to Kafka’s The Trial but Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Albert…
Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties
by Allen Ginsberg“Ginsberg has been one of the most influential poets in American in our time. . . . It has been a spectacular career, and . . . the thinking that…
A Few Stout Individuals
by John Guare“Vivacious. Individuals is . . . so unmistakably the product of Mr. Guare’s exotic yet very American imagination.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times…
