Granta

By Martin Amis, John Sutherland, Brigid Brophy, Raymond Carver, BLAKE MORRISON, Nicole Ward Jouve, Kenneth Bernard, Bill., GUY DAVENPORT, Walter Abish, David Caute, Per Gedin, Patricia Hampl, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lisa Zeidner, Buford, Bill Buford, Eric Burns

In this issue, arguments for the future of publishing by Brigid Brophy, John Sutherland, David Caute, Blake Morrison, Per Gedin, David Godine and Walter Abish. Also, fiction from Martin Amis, Guy D...

Invasion Of The Mind Snatchers: Television'S Conquest Of America In The Fifties

By Eric Burns

When the first television was demonstrated in 1927, a headline in "The New York Times "read, OC Like a Photo Come to Life.OCO It was a momentous occasion. But the power of television wasnOCOt fully...

The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story Of Quentin And Theodore Roosevelt

By Eric Burns

Mid-Strut

By Eric Burns, Burns, Eric

There has never been a novel like Mid-Strut, virtually a genre unto itself Friday, October 1, 1965. Arnie Stats Castig is a fine, upstanding citizen of a dying western Pennsylvania steel town---u...

Mid-Strut: A Novel

By Eric Burns, Burns, Eric

There has never been a novel like Mid-Strut, virtually a genre unto itself Friday, October 1, 1965. Arnie Stats Castig is a fine, upstanding citizen of a dying western Pennsylvania steel town---u...

In Nomine Superiors 4

By Jo Hart, Emily Dresner, Eric Burns, Eric Burns-White, Eric A. Burns

Virtue, Valor, And Vanity: The Founding Fathers And The Pursuit Of Fame

By Eric Burns

Virtue, Valor, And Vanity: The Founding Fathers And The Pursuit Of Fame

By Eric Burns

See the Founding Fathers as you never have before. We think of them now as faces on money or statues on pedestals, and, as Burns shows here in luminous prose, that's exactly what they wanted to be....

The Joy Of Books

By Eric Burns

Burns's compelling yet accessible history of the reading experience rejoices in the diverse motivations and methods in the developing relationship between readers and writers even as he voices conc...

The Autograph: A Modern Fable Of A Father And Daughter

By Eric Burns

This wonderful story of youthful self-discovery and a father's abiding love in the face of shared loss captures the very personal struggle for family values against the powerful attraction of moder...