Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholars life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as

Gene Colan

throwing the past and future into sharp relief

is kidnapped by a ragtag militia

earning Garner spots on nighttime TV talk shows and attention from magazines such as Vogue and Rolling Stone

Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along

It is the 1870s

Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region

but also the special relationship that Silverblatt developed with them during their lifetimes

On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth

Born in Brooklyn

A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music

her mother