Search Results for: American

Closer

by Dennis Cooper

“The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction.”—Bret Easton Ellis Winner of the Ferro–Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction From “the most dangerous writer in America” (Village Voice), Dennis Cooper’s Closer…

After the Blue Hour

by John Rechy

“Rechy . . . continues to write with such elegance and lyricism . . . A mind so singularly attuned to the layers and landscapes of American life.” —Susan Straight,…

The Enemies List

by P. J. O'Rourke

The Enemies List began as an article in the American Spectator and, as readers contributed their own suggestions, quickly grew into a hilarious and slashing commentary on politicians and celebrities…

Goodbye, Goodness

by Sam Brumbaugh

“Goodbye, Goodness is the rock “n” roll Great Gatsby. The American dream, slaughtered during the indie-rock nineties by an author who lived it. . . . Brumbaugh’s a new voice–witty,…

Black Eagle Child

by Ray Young Bear

“The American Indian poet and novelist Ray A. Young Bear possesses a robust imagination and a wonderfully droll narrative voice.” –The New York Times…

The Soft Machine

by William S. Burroughs

“Burroughs voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American, a voice in which one hears transistor radios and old movies and all the clichés and all the…

Bottomland

by Michelle Hoover

A haunting tale surrounding the disappearance of two German American sisters from a small Iowan farm at the end of WWI and the family left behind, plagued by suspicion and…

Hicksters

by Jake Maynard

“Visceral and electric, Maynard’s big-hearted stories are as unflinching as they are funny.”—Adam Ross, author of Playworld From a fresh voice in American literature, in the tradition of Barry Hannah…

Grove at Home: May 30-June 5

…about Americans, they meant other people, not us, but I felt American, as well as Vietnamese. My parents could use ‘Oriental’ without self-consciousness, but I could not. Something struck me…

Grove at Home: January 3-9

…largest city. It remains the only successful coup ever to take place on American soil. (A few months before this segment aired, we watched as a memorial to one of…