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Grove at Home: September 27—October 3
…I might have felt a bit less alone. BM: Favorite book to give as a gift? CLF: Jonathan Miles’s great early novel, Dear American Airlines. It has the virtue of…
The Beholder’s Eye
by Walt Harrington“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…
Last Words
by William S. Burroughs“Last Words . . . presents fresh cues to the larger design of [Burroughs’s] imagination, and a means of gaining a renewed perspective on his work.” –The New York Times…
Henry Miller
…printing of the celebrated and controversial Tropic of Cancer (1934); the book was banned in the United States at the time Grove Press printed it in 1961, which promptly initiated…
Bananas
by Peter Chapman“United Fruit essentially invented not only ‘the concept and reality of the banana republic,’ but also, as Chapman shows, the concept and reality of the modern banana. [A] witty, energetic…
P. J. O’Rourke
…foreign affairs desk chief for Rolling Stone where he reported from far-flung places. Later he wrote for a number of publications, including The Atlantic, the Daily Beast, the Wall Street…
A Diamond in the Desert
by Jo TatchellPart history, part memoir, part travel guide, this search for the mysteries behind one of the world’s richest cities is “the best book . . . on the Gulf coast…
The New Great Game
by Lutz Kleveman“A compact style and a sharp eye for detail . . . help the reader digest a huge and complex subject. . . . [Kleveman] is clearly an intelligent observer…
Grove at Home: March 14-20
…One of “How Yukong Moved the Mountains,” a documentary about China’s Cultural Revolution that she made with her husband, Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naDMFxOggFg Martha Anne Toll on Marguerite…
