Library-of-America
The notion that columnists like Breslin were “deadline artists” is apt. Their task was to come up with a story idea, track it down, then give it a narrative spark, all ahead of a ticking clock as the drop-deadline for the next edition loomed.
Read MoreOn the whole, this anthology, along with igniting discussions about sins of omission, will make for entertaining browsing.
Read MoreThe Unknown Kerouac is good for the advancement of Kerouac scholarship, but the book hardly justifies, for the average reader, its price and size.
Read MoreThe Library of America volumes of Virgil Thomson’s writings will help reestablish him as one of the 20th century’s preeminent musical scribes.
Read MoreLibrary of America’s anthology War No More explores a distinctively American tradition of antimilitarism.
Read MoreThe Library of America has done its part to applaud Arthur Miller’s 100th birthday with a handsome 3-volume set of his plays.
Read MoreThe hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.
Read MoreIn The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesque vision of a vanished America.
Read More“Americans have been most drawn to the great tragedies—in our classroom and on our stages. “
Read More“Bernard Malamud is the great sentence-maker, the great craftsman, and the sheer quality of those sentences has never perhaps been given its complete due.”
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