american literature

Writer Dave Eggers chooses twenty-five stories and articles to represent the best writing of 2002 for readers in their early twenties.

The author presents a memoir of her life in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on her organization of a group of young women in 1997 who met secretly once a week to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature.

Gives biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on twelve modern African American poets and dramatists.

Reprint of a 1934 text in which the author meditates upon the design and goals of literary culture, chronicling the conditions, ideas, and experiences that shaped American writing in the early twentieth century, and paying homage to the nurturing atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s.

A collection of writings in which poets, fiction writers, and essayists explore their feelings and reactions in the months following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

A collection of short stories and essays by award-winning author Joseph Heller.

A collection of articles by Daniel Pearl which appeared in the "Wall Street Journal" in the years before Pearl was killed by Islamic extremists.

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

A resource on twentieth-century African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" that includes a Hurston chronology, background texts by Hurston and others, six critical essays, and a selected bibliography.

Collection of poetry, prose and excerts from writers who were part of the "Beat Generation." Poets include Amiri Baraka, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and many others.