An Italian Education

Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams

“The show is Terrence McNally at his most impudently hilarious and shrewdly satirical. See it an weep for joy.” –John Simon, Bloomberg News…

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…constitute probably the most significant body of work produced by a twentieth-century author, in that they’re taken to signify the greatest number of things.”—New Yorker   The Thief’s Journal by…

Grove at Home: May 23-29

…his greatest honors yet, while a number of friends, collaborators, and fellow travelers — Tom Petty, Rubin Carter, Sam Shepard, many others — have passed away. “Dylan had already received…

Grove at Home: May 16-22

…appeared in any number of indelible roles in movies like Cool Hand Luke, Blue Velvet, and True Romance, today we’re remembering Easy Rider, the movie that first put Hopper on…

Grove at Home: May 9-15

…Farrakhan Factor remains one of the key books to understanding Farrakhan’s life, legacy, and message. With contributions from a number of prominent Black writers — including Gwendolyn Brooks, Stanley Crouch,…

Grove at Home: March 7-13

…passing of the great Lawrence Ferlinghetti, we alluded to the story of Ferlinghetti’s work, in collaboration with a number of community organizations, to have the small roadway behind City Lights…

Grove at Home: February 28-March 6

…Perhaps the best-known of these collaborations, The Threepenny Opera, included a song about a nasty, murderous gangster that has become a jazz standard, a number-one pop hit, and likely the…

Grove at Home: February 14-20

…in a piece at the Paris Review that includes reproductions of a number of them. “A goddess stands with her hands behind her back, half or her body painted black,…

Grove at Home: February 7-13

…at Literary Hub, the great Joyce Carol Oates — surely one of the past masters of American writing, in any number of genres — opens up about her favorite books,…