Grove Atlantic: 1452 books
by Elizabeth Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
A woman’s passion for the Nobel Prize winner yields “a rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir” (The Washington Post).
Elizabeth Hawes was a college sophomore in the 1950s when she became transfixed and transformed by Albert Camus. The author of such...
Holidays in Hell
In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This?"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “hair-raisingly hilarious” journey through danger zones from Belfast to Gaza, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Vanity Fair).
“Tired of making bad jokes” and believing that “the world outside seemed a much worse joke than anything I could conjure,” journalist and...
Mukiwa
A White Boy in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning...
by Jorge Luis Borges
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Borges’s composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object-his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination...
The Making of the Prefident 1789
The Unauthorized Campaign Biography of George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “witty, funny and hysterically silly” political parody that dares to take on the Mount Vernon Machine (The New York Times).
Lampooning the modern “campaign insider” books, this book asks: “How is it possible that a man with no military experience becomes a general? He loses more...
Sherlock Holmes
The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
“An in-depth biography of the world’s most famous detective that will intrigue Sherlockians and non-Sherlockians alike.” —Publishers Weekly
He has been called a genius and a fraud, a hero and an addict, but who really was Sherlock Holmes? With an attention to detail that would make his...
The Journal Keeper
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This personal memoir “reminds us that there is no such thing as an ordinary moment, and certainly no such thing as an ordinary life.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
The Journal Keeper is an openhearted, unflinchingly honest memoir of six years in Phyllis Theroux’s life...
Jam on the Vine
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
In this “captivating saga” of the post-Reconstruction era, a black female journalist blazes her own trail—“unforgettable; gripping; an instant classic” (Elle).
Ivoe Williams, the precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from central-east Texas, discovers a lifelong obsession...
Uphill Walkers
Portrait of a Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“The story of a family, united by blood, pride, and the bonds that defy logic” from the national bestselling author of In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle (Ellen Kanner, The Miami Herald).
In 1952, Madeleine Blais’s father died suddenly, leaving his pregnant wife and their five young children...
Last Words
The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, Last Words spans the realms...
The Best Minds of My Generation
A Literary History of the Beats
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION is a very unusual new addition to the oeuvre of Beat writing. Based on a series of lectures that Allen Ginsberg gave at the Naropa Institute in Colorado and then at Brooklyn College, the book is many things at once: literary primer for those new to the Beats; unique...
Journals
Early Fifties, Early Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Allen Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Collected here are journal entries culed from eighteen notebooks that Ginsberg kept during this extraordinary period -- thoughts, poems, dreams,...
by Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Allan Ginsberg was the leading poet and conscience of the Beat generation. Indian Journals collects Ginsberg’s writings from his trip to India in 196263.
by Maggie Paley
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2000
The almighty penis (a.k.a. dick, schlong, pecker, rod, tool, Johnson, etc.) has long been a major object of adoration, revulsion, ridicule, amazement, joy, pride, and even frustration. But does anyone fully understand the penis? Novelist, playwright, and journalist Maggie Paley immersed herself in the...