Two poets, one white and one black, explore race and childhood in this must-have collection tailored to provoke thought and conversation. How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project?

Twenty-one years after his death, his On Moral Fiction and The Art Of Fiction are still read and debated in MFA programs across the country. This is a full-scale biography of a writer who was, for ten years, almost bigger than life.

Discover the true story of how environmentalist Farmer Tantoh is transforming the landscape in his home country of Cameroon.

Could Dr. Frankenstein's machine ever animate a body?

Meanwhile, Lerer himself grows from bookish boy to professor of literature and an acclaimed expert on the very children’s books that set him on his path.

Fans of Les Robert's "Milan Jacovich" mystery series will enjoy this memoir in which Roberts tells how he discovered the heart and soul of a city while fictionalizing it for the series.

In this first biography of Jack Kerouac to fully portray the intense inner life that inspired his work, Kerouac's last editor addresses the writer's homosexual relationships with men, and sheds a new light on their profound impact upon his ...

James Freeman’s friend and mentor, now sorely missed, said of the manuscript of this collection: “Scintillating, heartbreaking and often heartwarming new stories by a master storyteller.