Search Results for: American
Grove at Home: May 23-29
…info on how to apply! Jimmy Santiago Baca: “a sliver of rock sank into my heart” Finally, we’re delighted to share this video of American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy…
Grove at Home: May 9-15
…that means, the desire for the American Dream, which is a dream. I’m interested in, I don’t know, just the endlessness of it, the searching of it, and how that…
Grove at Home: April 4-10
…recent novel, The Forger’s Daughter, whose action revolves partly around a first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane, the so-called “Holy Grail of American letters.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFEgX-oypAY Caleb Azumah Nelson…
Grove at Home: February 28-March 6
…in addition to reading his books (including The Waterfront Journals and In the Shadow of the American Dream, which we are proud to publish), and awaiting an epidemiologically sound opportunity…
Grove at Home: February 21-27
…Thanh Nguyen’s earliest memories, he is on a boat leaving Saigon. “It was 1975, and he and his family had been turned away from the airport and the American embassy…
Grove at Home: January 24-30
…told wonderfully in Julia Flynn Siler’s Lost Kingdom. This summer, we shared Siler’s appearance on PBS’s “American Masters” to discuss Lili‘uokani. Today, we’re watching this terrific virtual tour of some…
Grove at Home: November 22-28
…reflect both the American experience, particularly of people who are marginalized by societal power, and the broader world beyond the States. I can’t imagine not publishing books in translation, or…
Grove at Home: October 11—17
…and — true to form — pausing to pick up, and wonder at, a discarded wood pigeon egg. Give it a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLFg3NPk2U&feature=youtu.be Booksellers need your help! The American…
Grove at home: August 16—22
…pundits and pollsters called the 2016 presidential election wrong, one man — American University history professor Allan J. Lichtman — called it right. In fact, Lichtman, using a system of…
Grove at Home: May 17—23
…Covid-19 pandemic. “Americans now risk replicating the crimes and errors of a century ago,” Thompson writes. An urgent, worthwhile read. “While some pundits extol the virtue of strong government (i.e.,…
