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Queen of the Court
by Madeleine BlaisFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais, the dramatic and colorful story of legendary tennis star and international celebrity, Alice Marble
War Reporting for Cowards
by Chris Ayres“We find ourselves in good hands throughout the journey. . . . Once in a while his descriptions actually take on a terse Hemingwayesque brilliance. . . . Ayres happened…
The Voyeur’s Motel
by Gay TaleseFrom Gay Talese, a remarkable new work of reportage more than thirty years in the making.
Tropic of Capricorn
by Henry Miller“Miller has once and for all blasted away the very foundation of human hypocrisy–moral, social, and political. . . . The grandest passages are the scenes of lovemaking. They join…
Sons and Other Flammable Objects
by Porochista Khakpour“Punchy conversation, vivid detail, sharp humor . . . Khakpour brings her characters vividly to life; their flaws and feints at intimacy feel poignantly real, and their journeys generate real…
This Halloween, Read Spooky!
…of Voltaire’s Candide that’s not scary at all! Candy is a lusty romp of a story centered around the impossibly sweet Candy Christian. Candy is a wide-eyed, luscious, all-American girl…
Grove at Home: May 16-22
…Plain’), rarely has such a small body of work transformed so much. When it appeared in 1955, ‘Pedro Paramo’ shook the foundations of Latin American literature, then marked (with obvious…
Grove at Home: May 2-8
…who changed American poetry forever with his ebullient intimacy, urban energy, everyday chattiness, and abiding commitment to the principle that, in writing, “you just go on your nerve.” As we…
Grove at Home: February 14-20
…Gay on Audre Lorde Today would have been the 87th birthday of the American poet Audre Lorde, self-described as “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” who died of cancer in 1992…
