Our series of guest blog posts by writers of fiction, history, essays, and poetry continues today with a contribution by Luc Sante, whose new nonfiction work The Other Paris , just published by F...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/11/luc-sante-takes-headlong-plunge-into.html
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation , a noted sponsor of scholarship in the humanities, has awarded a grant to allow The Library of America to complete the conversion of old film used to manufac...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/10/generous-grant-matches-timeless-writing_27.html
Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn (Melville House, 2015) Our series of guest posts by contemporary writers discussing their influences continues with a contribution from Austin-based playwr...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/10/playwright-turned-novelist-kirk-lynn-on.html
New York City laid a claim to one of its most distinguished native sons last Wednesday, October 7, when a plaque honoring James Baldwin was officially unveiled at 81 Horatio Street in Greenwich V...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/10/photos-no-stranger-in-this-village.html
Library of America e-book editions of The Horizontal Man and Fools’ Gold. What’s old is new again this fall, when The Library of America simultaneously releases two rediscovered mystery-s...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/10/listen-library-of-america-makes.html
Dryland by Sara Jaffe (Tin House Books, 2015) Our series of guest posts by writers of fiction, poetry, essays, and history continues today with a contribution from SARA JAFFE , whose just-pu...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/10/sara-jaffe-from-james-baldwin-to-lynne.html
Library of America fans are strongly encouraged to visit the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City for the new exhibition Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars , a revelatory re-examination of ...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/10/morgan-library-exhibition-presents.html
Kate Bolick and Darryl Pinckney at The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts on Sept. 17, 2015. In a moment of literary serendipity last Thursday, one writer in The Library of America series was ho...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/09/photos-at-edith-whartons-house-james.html
Published last week, The Library of America’s two-volume collection Women Crime Writers of the 1940s and 50s has already won praise from the Washington Post and the Charlotte Observer , which ...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/09/women-crime-writers-forty-books-four.html
Humanities, September/October 2015 An origin story that is near and dear to us reached the public last week with the publication of “Edmund Wilson’s Big Idea,” a detailed history of Th...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/09/the-long-hard-fought-campaign-that-led.html
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman (Harper, 2015) Our series of guest posts by writers of fiction, history, essays, and poetry continues today with a contribution from ...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/09/alexandra-kleeman-philip-k-dicks.html
Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s September’s here—and though it’s not officially fall for three more weeks, today The Library of America’s fall season g...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/09/library-of-america-launches-fall-season.html
One week from today, The Library of America proudly publishes Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s , a two-volume collection of eight pioneering novels from the mid-twent...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/08/sarah-weinman-women-crime-writers.html
In the summer of 1765, anti-tax riots roiled Great Britain’s North American colonies from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Charleston, South Carolina, the first stirrings of what became the Americ...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/08/gordon-s-wood-how-american-revolution.html
Library of America fans in the greater New York City area will want to know that the Film Society of Lincoln Center has just announced a comprehensive four-day film series dedicated to JAMES BAL...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/08/james-baldwin-resurgent-on-screen-and.html
Abigail Adams: Letters (forthcoming March 2016) The Library of America series ushers in 2016 with a slate of familiar names alongside one notable newcomer. Henry James: Autobiographies is th...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/08/forthcoming-from-library-of-america.html
Lunch with a Bigot by Amitava Kumar (Duke University Press, 2015) Our series of guest blog posts by writers of fiction, poetry, essays, and history continues today with a contribution by AM...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/08/amitava-kumar-philip-roth-teaches-me-to.html
In honor of The Library of America’s just-published third volume of Jack Kerouac’s writings, and on the heels of our interview earlier this week with that book’s editor, Todd Tietchen, we...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/08/video-talented-new-york-trio-finds.html
The Library of America’s just-published third collection of Jack Kerouac’s writings brings together three works—Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, and Big Sur—distinguished by both thei...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/08/an-interview-with-todd-tietchen-took.html
The novelist E. L. Doctorow, who died in New York City last week at the age of 84, was a friend to The Library of America over the years, having contributed an introduction to the LOA edition of...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/07/video-e-l-doctorow-pays-tribute-to.html
One of the great enigmas of American literature unexpectedly rejoins the cultural conversation this summer with the opening of Eureka , a group exhibition at the Pace Gallery in New York City tha...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/07/revisionism-edgar-allan-poes.html
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (Random House, 1975) Writer E. L. Doctorow died in New York City on Tuesday, July 21, at the age of 84. He was born in the Bronx in 1931 and published his first ...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/07/the-library-of-america-remembers-e-l.html
An old friend of The Library of America is in New York City for the summer, receiving visitors by the hundreds every day and looking remarkably sharp despite having survived a brush with vandalis...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/07/henry-james-john-singer-sargent-and.html
Let Me Explain You by Annie Liontas (Scribner, 2015) Our series of guest blog posts by writers of fiction, history, essays, and poetry continues today with a post by ANNIE LIONTAS , whose d...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/07/annie-liontas-influences-identity-and.html
James Tate, one of the most lauded American poets of his generation, died on July 8 at the age of 71 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Tate was still a graduate student at the University of Iowa...
https://blog.loa.org/2015/07/remembering-james-tate-1943-i-love-my.html