The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American DynastyThe riveting saga of the Seabrook Family, by one of The New Yorkers most acclaimed storytellers. Having left this material for his writer son, my father must have wanted the story told, even if he couldnt bear to tell it himself. So begins the story of a forgotten American dynasty, a farming family from the bean fields of southern New Jersey who became as wealthy and powerful as aristocratsonly to implode in a storm of lies. The patriarch, C. F.

and children are nameless

Spellbinding and smart

Ron Padgett is one of America's best-known and most acclaimed poets

John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome

Each story in this collection is a song that ruins me in its oblique precision and resolve

My Life explores the many ways in which language–the things people say and the ways they say them–shapes not only their identity

good music and unreliable men

cornered fields and dusky churchyards

—The New York Times

the world looks grim (“I sit around

your usual fancies and imaginings so as to see what is there and stand with what is there ecstatically

art was Johnston’s longest-running passion