Search Results for: American

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 Typist

by Michael Knight

The most ambitious novel to date from the award-winning Southern writer Michael Knight, about a green young American posted to the strange realm of post-World War II Japan, where his…

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,…

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…

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…

Hicksters

by Jake Maynard

From a fresh voice in American literature, in the tradition of Barry Hannah and Lucia Berlin, comes a linked collection of short stories inspired by the author’s Pennsylvania hometown that…

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…

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…

Q&A with Lauren Francis-Sharma, David Wright Faladé, and Tochi Onyebuchi

…hope that I am expanding our understanding of the African contribution to Americanness. And, because the cultural blending at the heart of Americanness is so tangled, the stories that I’m…