american literature

Provides study tools on John Steinbeck's "The Pearl," including background on the author, summaries, commentary, literary analysis, and character analyses.

A collection of essays, magazine articles, and television transcripts in which the author expresses her views on sexuality, the gay and feminist movements, and politics, with some discussion of public personalities and autobiographical memoirs.

A collection of articles originally published in "New York" magazine between 1968 and 2008, including selections from Gloria Steinem, Nora Ephron, George Plimpton, Jimmy Breslin, and many others.

Profiles eight quarrels between famous authors from the twentieth century, providing insight into the issues that provoked the feuds, the course the feuds took, and how they ended.

A collection of essays in which well-known American writers reflect on and eulogize the works and lives of other writers.

Presents an anthology of literature written primarily in the post-World War II era by a variety of American authors working outside the mainstream of the genre, including works by Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, Hunter S. Thompson, Henry Miller, Sapphire, and over 150 others.

A collection of essays, poems, and stories on what it means to be a man of color.