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,…

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…

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…

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;…

Steve Rushin

…fans. Rushin has since been nominated for four National Magazine Awards. His work has appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American…

Gail Buckley

Gail Lumet Buckley is the author of the national bestsellers American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm, and The Hornes: An American…

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…

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