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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…

Nathan Ward

…and was an editor at American Heritage Magazine for several years. Though he lives in Brooklyn, NY, he has had a lifelong interest in the American West and its history….

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,…

Jacqueline Osherow

…for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has received a number of…

Paul Dickson

Paul Dickson is the author of more than sixty nonfiction books, including Sputnik: The Shock of the Century and The Bonus Army: An American Epic (with Thomas B. Allen), and…

Parliament of Whores

by P. J. O'Rourke

“Pick up O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores, a riotously funny and perceptive indictment of America’s political system. You’ll stop reading only when you stop laughing. . . . Parliament of Whores…

Once in a Lifetime

by Gavin Newsham

“Newsham describes the audacious attempt to create a national sport from scratch in meticulous detail, and the story is fascinating”. This book is a gripping evocation of a glorious but…

The Neocon Reader

by Irwin Stelzer

“I find both the substance and the rhetoric of many of the articles here inspiring. But even those who don’t might admire the imagination, forthrightness and clarity of most of…

Mint Condition

by Dave Jamieson

“An excellent and rigorous history of baseball cards . . . Dave Jamieson’s Mint Condition is a comprehensive romp through a quirky subject’s history.” —Marc Tracy, The New York Times…

Guests of the Ayatollah

by Mark Bowden

“Heart-stopping, and heart-breaking.” —James Traub, New York Times Book Review…