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Inspired by the do-it-yourself Christmas decor publications crowding the checkout counter in the supermarket, Joan Didion decides to step up her holiday preparations in “The Big Rock Candy Figgy Pudding Pitfall,” our Story of the Week. Read it for free: storyoftheweek.loa.org/2023/12/the-...

Calling all librarians, nonprofits, and cultural organizations! Grants of $1,200 are available to host public programs as part of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home. To find out more and apply by filling out a short form, visit latinopoetry.org. Applications due 2/15/24.

Latino Poetry: Places We Call Homelatinopoetry.org Latino Poetry is a national public humanities initiative directed by Library of America, a nonprofit publisher and cultural institution, in partnership with the National Association of Latino Arts an...

Check out highlights from Library of America’s website this past year, from an editor’s account of recovering marked-up drafts of True Grit in Charles Portis’s family home to a documentarian’s reflections on filming SF great Ursula K. Le Guin. loa.org/news-and-views/year_in_review_2023/

Year in Review: A look back at our top web content of 2023 - Library of Americaloa.org With 2023 entering its closing chapter, we wanted to bookmark a few highlights from our website over the past year, from in-depth interviews with scholars, filmmakers, authors, and game developers to ...

Many have dreamed: “What if every day were Christmas?” And in William Dean Howells’s “Christmas Every Day,” a little girl’s wish for just that backfires in spectacular fashion. Read it for free on Story of the Week: storyoftheweek.loa.org/2023…

Story of the Weekstoryoftheweek.loa.org A free story every week, sponsored by The Library of America

Ross Macdonald, whose hardboiled novels about private detective Lew Archer transcend genre, was born today (as Kenneth Millar) in 1915. On loa.org, Tom Nolan, editor of the three-volume LOA Macdonald collection, reflects on a few of the writer’s breakthrough books: www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

Cautionary tale as catharsis in Ross Macdonald’s The Instant Enemy - Library of Americawww.loa.org Library of America’s Ross Macdonald edition concludes this summer with Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels, a collection of four Lew Archer mysteries from late 1960s and early ’70s. Volume editor To...

Willa Cather was born 150 years ago today in Virginia, moved at age nine to Red Cloud, Nebraska, and then set her sights on literary immortality. Benjamin Taylor, author of an acclaimed new biography of Cather spoke with LOA about her “extremely orderly and uncrazy” life: www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

“Extremely Orderly and Uncrazy”: Benjamin Taylor on His Revelatory New Biography of Willa Cather...www.loa.org What does it mean to mark a major anniversary—a 150th birthday, in this case—for a writer so gloriously out of time as Willa Cather? Born on a Virginia farm on December 7, 1873, Cather relocated w...

Crime fiction experts Sarah Weinman, Geoffrey O’Brien, Gene Seymour, and David Lehman discuss the leading lights of 1960s noir in our final LOA LIVE event of 2023: Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy B. Hughes, Donald Westlake, and many more. Watch the full video or listen here: www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas: Classic Crime Thrillers of the 1960s - Library of Americawww.loa.org LOA LIVE December 5, 2023—To cap LOA LIVE’s fall season, a killer lineup of panelists explores classic crime fiction of the 1960s, from Donald Westlake-writing-as-Richard Stark’s taut smash-and-...

Joan Didion, who pioneered narrative nonfiction and penned perhaps the most famous packing list ever, was born today in 1934. "She is one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe,” wrote Joyce Carol Oates.

Tonight at 6pm ET, take a plunge into the dark waters of 1960s crime fiction at our last LOA LIVE event of 2023, with panelists Geoffrey O’Brien, Sarah Weinman, Gene Seymour, and David Lehman. RSVP for the free, virtual program here: www.eventbrite.com/e/im-dreamin...

I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas: Classic Crime Thrillers of the 1960swww.eventbrite.com With Geoffrey O’Brien, Sarah Weinman, Gene Seymour, and David Lehman

We recently published a fascinating interview with critic Merve Emre about the explosive 1967 novel The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams. See why she’d teach it in a Great American Novel class alongside Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

Moby-Reddick: Merve Emre on John A. Williams’s Great American Novel - Library of Americawww.loa.org Hailed by Chester Himes as “a blockbuster, a hydrogen bomb” when it was published in 1967, John A. Williams’s The Man Who Cried I Am is at once a panoramic novel about systemic racism and a deep...

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