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The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941
by Paul DicksonThe dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World…
The Butterfly Mosque
by G. Willow WilsonThe extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing…
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie“Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American…
Time to Start Thinking
by Edward Luce“This is a book that will transform the way you think of this country.” —Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lords of Finance…
Grove at Home: December 6-12
…a leader of the Black Arts Movement, a resounding activist voice in his native Newark, a key figure in the “New American Poetry,” a vocal participant in worldwide Marxist writing,…
Barry Hannah
…in fiction have been honored with an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and he was nominated for the American Book Award for Ray…
John Tytell
John Tytell is an American writer and academic, whose works on such literary figures as Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, and William S. Burroughs, have made him…
Christopher Durang
…Inge Theatre Festival Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award and the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Early in his career, Durang won…
The Unknowns
by Patrick K. O'DonnellThe award-winning author of Washington’s Immortals offers a searing narrative that takes readers into the heart of combat in the Great War….
