Books from Grove/Atlantic

  • Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
    Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
    By William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz

    Documenting the final months of this literary and countercultural icon, personal reflections confront the state of the human race and a host of political and social ills, while meditating on his own aproaching death.

  • A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet
    A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet
    By Jimmy Santiago Baca

    In an extraordinary memoir, one of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in Arizona and San Diego, and the personal redemption that occurred after he was arrested and ...

  • Sexing the Millennium: Women and the Sexual Revolution
    By Linda Grant

    A cultural analysis of the origins and effects of the sexual revolution advocates the continuing need for women to have a free and active erotic life as an integral part of female power and autonomy. 15,000 first printing.

  • Tomboy: Memoirs of a Girls' Reformatory and Its Cause Célèbre by One who was a Witness
    By Anonymous, Professor James Jennings

    Tomboy: Memoirs of a Girls' Reformatory and Its Cause Célèbre by One who was a Witness

  • Sad Movies: A Novel
    By Mark Lindquist

    An acutely etched portrayal of up-to-date disillusionment in L.A., Sad Movies speaks to the generation of readers drawn to Jay McInerney and other contemporary writers--but in a searching, exact voice all its own.

  • Waverly Place
    By Susan Brownmiller

    Inspired by the notorious Lisa Steinberg case, this novel follows a couple as they descend into a nightmarish reality of child abuse and the society that quietly tolerates it

  • Noble Rot: Stories 1949-1988
    By Richard G. Stern

    A richly varied collection of stories offers a witty and humane look at a broad range of characters, from songwriters to busdrivers, from adolescent girls to assistant Secretaries of State

  • Jou Pu Tuan
    By Yu Li

    Jou Pu Tuan

  • Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret
    By James Gavin

    Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret

  • The Soft Machine ; Nova Express ; The Wild Boys: Three Novels
    By William S. Burroughs

    The Soft Machine ; Nova Express ; The Wild Boys: Three Novels

  • With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker
    By William S. Burroughs, Victor Bockris

    With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker

  • The Young Actors' Workbook
    The Young Actors' Workbook
    By Mike Thaler, William Cole

    Act I Sue Belle Monologues for Boys From You're a Good Man , Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner , based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz . Act I 123 Charlie Brown From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Samuel Langhorne Clemens ...

  • The Current Climate: A Novel
    By Bruce Jay Friedman

    Grove Press continues the reissue of Bruce Jay Friedman's critically acclaimed fiction with The Current Climate by the comedic genius whose work Nelson Algren hailed as "more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth, and Bellow ...[and] more ...

  • War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict
    War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict
    By Michael Byers

    Originally published: London: Atlantic Books, 2005.

  • The Beard
    By Michael McClure

    The Beard

  • The Student's Guide to Good Grades: Surviving the Undergraduate Jungle
    The Student's Guide to Good Grades: Surviving the Undergraduate Jungle
    By Kathy Crafts, Brenda Hauther

    Professor Summa Cum Laude Cassie Stromer Karen Hansen DBLT Hauther Barbara Nichols Nis Lyons Bernie Naskret Samuel Ready Diana Driscoll E.M. Kathy Doheny Sylvia McDonough Blake Murphy Suzanne Ray Richard Snee Suzyn Jurist Merri Spear ...

  • Twelve
    Twelve
    By Nick McDonell

    White Mike, a seventeen-year-old prep school dropout and drug dealer, and his privileged peers spend their time partying with sex, drugs, and escalating violence in the pursuit of ever more exotic and dangerous thrills.

  • The Penny Whistle Halloween Party Book
    By Meredith Brokaw

    As with every Penny Whistle book, this is a lively, illustrated, two-color treasury of inventive ideas and useful tips for parents. Two color throughout.

  • Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age
    Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age
    By Kenzaburō Ōe

    K, a renowned writer living in Tokyo who often retreats from reality, must come to terms with his mentally disabled son Eeyore, his family, his relationship with his own father, his own political beliefs, and his responsibility as an arist ...

  • In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding
    By Deborah Baker

    Traces the life of the controversial poet, critic, and essayist, discusses her relationship with Robert Graves, and looks at her influence on a wide variety of fellow writers