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Mary Jo Bang

…Washington University in St. Louis. Individual poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, The Paris Review, Fence, Best American Poetry (2001, 2004),…

Tochi Onyebuchi

…has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and elsewhere. His nonfiction includes the book (S)kinfolk and has appeared in the New York…

Returning to Earth

by Jim Harrison

“[Harrison’s] books glisten with love of the world, and are as grounded as Thoreau’s in the particulars of American place—its rivers and thickets, its highways and taverns. Bawdily and with…

The Middleman and Other Stories

by Bharati Mukherjee

…that no one has looked at with quite so clear an eye since approximately World War II, the queasy crucible in which the American identity itself is alloyed.” –Chicago Tribune…

Horton Foote

Horton Foote’s distinguished career in American theater, film, and television spans more than fifty years. Born in Wharton, Texas, he moved to New York to study acting, but he soon…

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was a poet, activist, and one of the Beat Generation’s most renowned writers. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and cofounder…

Glengarry Glen Ross

by David Mamet

“One of his best plays. Crackling tension . . . ferocious comedy and drama. A top American playwright in bristling form.” –Frank Rich, The New York Times…

Donald M. Allen

Donald Allen has edited many books, among them The Postmoderns, The New American Poetry, The Poetics of the New American Poetry, and the collected poems of Edward Dorn, Frank O’Hara,…

Edie

by Jean Stein

“Through a kaleidoscope of seemingly fragmented voices, patterns form, giving brilliant definition to the very American tragedy of Edie Sedgwick, a woman not likely to be forgotten after this haunting…

Howard Sounes

…Crazy Life (Grove, 1998), about the iconoclastic American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) who wrote vividly and wittily about the underbelly of American society, followed by Bukowski in Pictures…