Search Results for: American

Roxane Gay

…stories and essays can be found in Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing…

What We Are

by Peter Nathaniel Malae

“A rollercoaster ride inside the haunted house of American multi cultural sin and shame. Violent and smart and funny. I am excited by this new writer.” —Sherman Alexie…

The Black Calhouns

by Gail Buckley

Gail Lumet Buckley tells the story of her dynamic family during the most crucial century in African American history.

Hettie Jones

…American ought to read; and Lawrence Ferlinghetti said: “A feminist scrutiny such as this is just what those lost decades needed, as the Beats themselves needed it.” The New York…

Revolutionary Snipers

by Patrick K. O'Donnell

…and The Indispensables, the dramatic untold story of the snipers whose marksmanship and irregular warfare altered the outcomes of crucial battles and influenced the way the American Revolution was fought…

The Poker Bride

by Christopher Corbett

“The Poker Bride is a gorgeously written and brilliantly researched saga of America during the mad flush of its biggest Gold Rush. Christopher Corbett’s genius is to anchor his larger…

Nine Plays of the Modern Theatre

by Harold Clurman

“The nine plays included in this volume are not only modern by date, 1944-1975, but in their dramatization . . . . Though each may differ from the others in…

Wash

by Margaret Wrinkle

…the painful inheritance and implications of such a horrendous moment in American history. . . . Wash is both redemptive and affirming.” —Major Jackson, The New York Times Book Review…

The Refugees

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

…the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is a collection of stories imbued with Nguyen’s extraordinary gift for writing, exploring questions of home, family, immigration, and the American experience….

Lonesome Traveler

by Jack Kerouac

“Kerouac’s work represents the most extensive experiment in language and literary form undertaken by an American writer of his generation.”–Ann Douglas