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Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer, and a political activist. The enduring characters he created include Sam Spade (The…
What It Takes to Get to Vegas
by Yxta Maya Murray…is at once specifically American in its rhythms and syntax, and indisputably female. . . . Rita Zapata is who Holden Caufield would want to be if he were alive…
How I Became Hettie Jones
by Hettie Jones“This is a story every American ought to read; written by someone who is generous and loving. The writing is easy, effortless, honest, like a letter from a friend, but…
Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies, To Kill a Mockingbird
by Horton FooteA collection of Horton Foote’s best-known and most-loved screenplays, revealing the deep currents of American society through the simplest details of daily life….
Asa Akira
Asa Akira is a Japanese American actress working in the adult film industry. She has been named Performer of the Year at the AVN, XRCO, XBIZ, AEBN VOD, and Urban…
The First Hurt
by Rachel Sherman…skin and stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. These haunting stories are both wonderfully, deeply weird and unsettlingly familiar.” —Judy Budnitz, author of Nice Big American Baby…
Keys Cuisine
by Linda Gassenheimer“Linda Gassenheimer has brilliantly filled in a missing piece of the regional American food jigsaw puzzle–amusing and delicious, well-researched food from the seductive Florida Keys.” –Barbara Kafka, author of Microwave…
Citizen Tom Paine
by Howard Fast“Howard Fast has taken a figure out of American history and by the intensity of his emotional sympathy and intellectual response has made him into a living man . ….
Terrence McNally
…of TV scripts, including Andre’s Mother, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, and a citation from the American Academy of…
The Black Brook
by Tom Drury…of my favorite novels on earth” (Christian Science Monitor), now expanded with a new Q&A between Handler and Drury, a “major figure in American literature” (New York Times Book Review)….
