With Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven , Dawn Turner Trice established herself as a powerful and unique new fiction writer with a first novel called "touching and memorable" by the New York Times . Now, with An Eighth of August , she delivers on the promise of her stunning debut with an eloquent,...

The lives built by Black Americans in a pair of summer resort towns In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, northern resort towns were in their heyday as celebrated retreats for America's wealthy. Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August  documents the experiences of African Americans i...

In little more than twenty years, playwright August Wilson (1945–2005) completed a ten-play cycle depicting African American life in the twentieth century, with each play taking place in a different decade. Two of the plays― Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990)―were awarded the Pulitze...

A Traveler at Forty ."rises completely out of the commonplace, and becomes something new, illuminating and heretical. It differs enormously from the customary travel books: it is not a mere description of places and people, but a revelation of their impingement upon an exceptional and almost eccentr...

Now in paperback! Strangers in the Land of Paradise The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, NY, 1900–1940 Lillian Serece Williams Examines the settlement of African Americans in Buffalo during the Great Migration. "A splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and A...

Winner, 2025 New Mexico Book Awards, Multicultural Category Finalist, New Mexico Book Awards, BIPOC Author or Subject Category and First Book Category Working at the intersection of Latina/o/x cultural studies, sociocultural linguistics, and Chicana feminist studies, Lillian Gorman’s Zones of E...

The bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck brilliantly and hilariously resuscitates Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy—two bigger-than-life feuding writers—to give them a post-mortem second act, and the chance to really air their differences. Although Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy...

A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943–2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (di...

The town of Silver Lake remembers what it refuses to admit. Forty years ago, seventeen-year-old Lillian Price walked out of the public library with a strange book pressed to her chest— The Vanishing Hour —and disappeared before she ever made it home. No body. No witnesses. Just a chilled August ...

The name Glens Falls went through a series of changes, beginning simply as "the Corners," after a bend in the road from a major military installation in Fort Edward. In the 1700s, it was known as Wing's Falls, and later Pearlville, Pearl Village, and Glenn's Falls; but by the middle of the 1800s, it...

Strengthen your bond with God, one devotion at a time. As women, we have many roles and responsibilities. We are daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers, caregivers, working women, leaders, teachers, pastors, and pastors’ wives, neighbors, friends―and the list goes on. Ye...

Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is en...

The third installment in the Modern Library's Paris Review "Writers at Work" series, this is an all-new gathering of interviews with the most important and compelling playwrights of our time. Their singular takes on their craft, their influences, their lives, the state of contemporary theater, and t...

In Eric Overmyer’s hilarious send-up of private-eye pulp fiction, Shrimp Bucket and his brother, Gut, are stealing the sexy Dolores Con Leche’s dreams. It’s Taxi’s task to find out why. From the ubiquitous fog to the cheap bedrooms at Heartbreak Hotel to Con Leche’s legs, which are describ...

Fifty years after the original production of Death of a Salesman , Arthur Miller's play has as much emotional impact upon and relevance to the audience of twenty-first century America as it did when it was first performed. In this collection of papers, taken from the Fifth International Arthur Mill...

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve was a popular character appearing regularly on The Fibber McGee & Molly Show . On August 31, 1941, the character landed his own situation comedy show, The Great Gildersleeve , becoming radio's first spin-off. Gildy moved from the town of Wistful Vista to Summerfield, w...

Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have combed New York and Pennsylvania for the gravesites and biographies of some of our most interesting and accomplished authors, musicians, actors, and entertainers. Included in this volume are: Nick Adams "Johnny Yuma Was a Rebel" - Lucille Ball “We A...

Discover the Audiobook and 35 More Apocryphal Texts - Scan the QR code inside the book to download the Audiobook, ' The Apocrypha ', ' Enoch 1,2,3 ', and ' The Gnostic Gospels ' Dive into the mystical and forgotten tales of the Nephilim in ' The Book of Giants ', a compelling exploration of one o...

“The Filipino people were loyal, went without food so we could eat, and suffered torture and death at times to protect us. I wouldn’t be alive today if it weren’t for their support. Certainly our guerrilla action couldn’t have succeeded without them.” — ARTHUR PHILIP MURPHY in reference ...

SUPPER WITH THE STARS is a fun and inventive cookbook fusing film history and fabulous food ideas which continues the culinary legacy of legendary Hollywood actor, art lover and gourmet Vincent Price. Written by Peter Fuller and Jenny Hammerton, it features illustrations by Ben Wickey and a Forewor...