books by Grove Press, Open City Books

books by Grove Press, Open City Books

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Leni Zumas

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2008

Awesome first book of short stories
Travel into the minds and hearts of people living in ways and places you never imagined could exist... a great way to have a summer vacation without travelling anywhere! The characters you will meet will stick with you. You'll want to hug them, smack them, talk to ...

Some Hope: A Trilogy

Edward St. Aubyn

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2003

don't read this unless you're highly literate
I truly don't understand the reviewers of this book who maunder on about how it was well written, but that they couldn't really get into it because the characters weren't likable. My God, have they never read "Madame Bovary"? I read a book for fascination, not ...

Open City, #6: The Only Woman He Ever Left

Rick Moody, Deborah Garrison, ...

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2000

One of the best literary magazines around
Open City consistently publishes great stories, poems, essays, and artwork. I look forward to each issue, because each one is so different, and because this magazine continues to be vital and relevant, esp. because many literary magazines are so staid and dull....

Karoo: A Novel

Steve Tesich, E. L. Doctorow

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2004

Buy it, Steal it, Read it!
Quite simply, one of the best books I have read. Tesichs' insights, observations, and descriptions of situations are so disturbingly real, you find yourself alternately hating/loving Saul Karoo, the subject of the novel. Karoo is described as something of an anti-hero, ...

My Misspent Youth: Essays

Meghan Daum

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2001

Reflections on lives as simulations
In this highly autobiographical and entertaining collection of essays, the author offers insight into American culture that both informs and questions. From a Gen-X perspective, she focuses on the changing cultural realities of the 80s and 90s that undermine long-held ...

Venus Drive

Sam Lipsyte

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2000

Poetically Raw & Honest
It has been several years since I've read something so poetically raw and honest, not since Jesus' Son and Fight Club. However, there is a grave wisdom behind these tales, a knowledge of what's real, what hurts, and what counts. In other words, there is more going on ...

Mother's Milk: A Novel

Edward St. Aubyn

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2006

Incredibly astute & insightful exploration of the inner workings of a family
This is a very unique & explicit exploration of familial relationships which although dark & poisonous at times rings very true & hilariously funny thanks to the authentic voices of its characters. The author is incredibly attuned to feelings & is able to convey ...

Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying
James Salter, Mary Gaitskill, ...

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2009

Over the last century air travel has evolved from a high-risk experiment involving a few visionary pioneers to an efficient—and often irritating—means for distributing masses of people to the far reaches of the globe. During the hundred-year history of human air travel, it has yielded writing that is, by turns, heroic, dreamy, ...

Actual Air

David Berman

Grove Press, Open City Books, 1999

Easily one of the best books I've read so far in 2006.
David Berman, Actual Air (Open City, 1999) In one of David Berman's amazing poems, we get this passage: "He wasn't sure how the bathroom mirror worked but decided it must be powered by the razor blades and aspirin he found in the engine compartment. It was ...

Open City #9: Bewitched (Open City)
Jonathan Ames, Geoff Dyer, ...

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2000

This issue features the first-time publication of Edvard Munch's poems and journal entries, making this Open City an instant collector's item.

Open City #25: The Musicians' Issue (Open City)
Open City Magazine

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2008

“Intelligent and accessible . . . A hip, urban aesthetic.” — Poets Writers A special issue of Open City featuring writing and artwork by an exciting array of alternative rock stars. A literary magazine of fiction, essays, and poetry, Open City has a youthful, adventurous spirit and an uncanny knack for finding vibrant and ...

Open City #27
Open City Magazine

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2009

Open City #10 : The Editors' Issue (Open City)
Ken Schles, Robert Bingham, ...

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2000

For the first time in the ten year history of the journal, the Open City editors have published themselves. Open City Ten shows a literary generation--forcefully, brilliantly, painfully, sometimes tragically, coming of age.

Open City #4 (Open City)
Denis Johnson, Jim Thompson, ...

Grove Press, Open City Books, 1996

I Married an Artist (Open City #16)

Robert Bingham, Dana Goodyear, ...

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2002

the "New" paris review
funky and astute might be appropriate adjectives to describe Open City mag., which is more than a literary portrait "of New York City and the city in general." with writing not merely urban(e) or cynical (consider the dense, nature-themed poetry of Rodney Jack and the ...