Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Alexandra Kleeman: Philip K. Dick’s “gnostic logic” and other influences on You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman (Harper, 2015) Our series of guest posts by writers of fiction, history, essay...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Library of America launches fall season with a double-barreled blast of classic crime

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Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s September’s here—and though it’s not officially fall for three more we...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Sarah Weinman: Women Crime Writers anthology tells a new story about genre fiction

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One week from today, The Library of America proudly publishes Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s , a two-volu...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

Gordon S. Wood: How the American Revolution “infused into our culture our noblest ideals and highest aspirations”

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In the summer of 1765, anti-tax riots roiled Great Britain’s North American colonies from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Charleston, South Ca...
Friday, August 14, 2015

James Baldwin, resurgent on screen and on the page in 2015

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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 com...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Forthcoming from The Library of America (Winter–Spring 2016)

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Abigail Adams: Letters (forthcoming March 2016) The Library of America series ushers in 2016 with a slate of familiar names alongside on...
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Monday, August 10, 2015

Amitava Kumar: Philip Roth teaches me to be a bit more honest

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Lunch with a Bigot by Amitava Kumar (Duke University Press, 2015) Our series of guest blog posts by writers of fiction, poetry, essays...
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Video: Talented New York trio finds the music in Jack Kerouac’s poetry and prose

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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 thi...
Monday, August 3, 2015

An interview with Todd Tietchen: “It took a while for literary culture to catch up with what Kerouac had accomplished.”

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The Library of America’s just-published third collection of Jack Kerouac’s writings brings together three works— Visions of Cody , Visions ...
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Friday, July 31, 2015

Video: E. L. Doctorow pays tribute to Herman Melville’s great “kitchen-sink sort of book”

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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, h...