Grove at Home: December 6-12

…a leader of the Black Arts Movement, a resounding activist voice in his native Newark, a key figure in the “New American Poetry,” a vocal participant in worldwide Marxist writing,…

John Tytell

John Tytell is an American writer and academic, whose works on such literary figures as Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, and William S. Burroughs, have made him…

Barry Hannah

…in fiction have been honored with an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and he was nominated for the American Book Award for Ray…

Christopher Durang

…Inge Theatre Festival Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award and the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Early in his career, Durang won…

The Unknowns

by Patrick K. O'Donnell

The award-winning author of Washington’s Immortals offers a searing narrative that takes readers into the heart of combat in the Great War….

Neighbors and Other Stories

by Diane Oliver

…as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an introduction by Tayari Jones…

Carl Smith

Carl Smith is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Northwestern University. His books include Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920;…

Michael Pollan

…first book, Second Nature), the 2000 Reuters-I.U.C.N. Global Award for Environmental Journalism for his reporting on genetic engineering and the 2003 American Humane Society’s Genesis Award for his writing on…

Toward the Setting Sun

by Brian Hicks

…tragedy of the Cherokee Nation. . . . Hicks brings narrative energy and original insight to a grim and important chapter of American life.” —Jon Meacham, author of American Lion…

The Immaculate Invasion

by Bob Shacochis

“An unforgettable mixture of hard journalism and sharp commentary that captures much of the absurdity and futility of the 1994 American-led U.N. invasion of Haiti.” —Kenneth Maxwell, Foreign Affairs…

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