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@jayjenni.bsky.socialReposted by @libraryofamerica.bsky.socialWith the publication of a translation of The Dog of the South into Spanish by Barcelona-based @dirtyworks.bsky.social Charles Portis is getting some love from this leading literary site. The writer dives into the @libraryofamerica.bsky.social edition (and name checks yours truly as well).
@libraryofamerica.bsky.socialSpotted in the season finale of #TedLasso: the LOA volume of legendary movie critic Pauline Kael’s selected writings! “Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply,” she observed, “just because you must use everything you are and everything you know.” loa.org/books/348
@hillnadell.bsky.socialReposted by @libraryofamerica.bsky.socialHappy Pub Day to AMERICAN FLASH FICTION, a genre-spanning anthology that celebrates the most vital voices in very (very!) short stories.
Edited by @davidulin.bsky.social. Available now from @libraryofamerica.bsky.social!
@libraryofamerica.bsky.socialOn sale today: three terrifying horror masterpieces by Peter Straub, collected in a deluxe edition edited by @emmastraub.bsky.social. In Julia (1975), If You Could See Me Now (1977), and Ghost Story (1979), witness the emergence of a modern master of the American gothic. www.loa.org/books/three-...
@libraryofamerica.bsky.socialThrough this weekend, get 15% deducted from your entire order from the Library of America Web Store, with free Priority Mail shipping on orders of $60+. Shop new Fall titles: Peter Straub, Earthsea, American Flash Fiction, and more. loa.org/books
@libraryofamerica.bsky.social“A poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully,” wrote Wallace Stevens, the inimitable poet born on this day in 1879. His work—mystic, ephemeral, symbol-laden—may at first appear unapproachable, but the rewards for the persistent reader are immense. www.loa.org/writers/295-...
@libraryofamerica.bsky.social“The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals,” wrote James Thurber in his classic collection Thurber’s Dogs, out in a new edition from LOA this October. www.loa.org/books/thurbe...
@libraryofamerica.bsky.social“[Jim] Thompson’s novels stick in the reader’s craw, peepholes into an aberrant sensibility that is recognizably American, filled with shameless, monomaniac energy,” writes David Mikics in his Tablet review of the Dimestore Dostoevsky’s recent LOA edition.
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@libraryofamerica.bsky.social“The real appeal of flash resides in how it catalyzes our awareness, drawing us more closely into an engagement with a text,” writes David L. Ulin in @altajournal.bsky.social, discussing the new LOA anthology American Flash Fiction and the growth of this captivating genre through literary history.
@libraryofamerica.bsky.socialIn the blink of an eye, flash fiction can convey multitudes. On our website, David L. Ulin, editor of American Flash Fiction: An Anthology, discusses the ancient origins, fascinating evolution, and ongoing importance of these literary masterpieces in miniature. www.loa.org/news-and-vie...
@libraryofamerica.bsky.social“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”—William Faulkner, born Sept. 25, 1897. Explore the life and work of the Nobel laureate: loa.org/writers/301
The @libraryofamerica.bsky.social is coming out with their Peter Straub volume, and there’s an event with @gradyhendrix.bsky.social and @emmastraub.bsky.social and Kelly Link to celebrate it!!
@libraryofamerica.bsky.socialModern luminaries of flash fiction Lynne Tillman, Venita Blackburn, and Ben Loory join LOA LIVE on 10/7 to explore the miniature masterpieces collected in a new anthology of this dazzling genre, edited by David L. Ulin. RSVP for free on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/american-f...
@libraryofamerica.bsky.socialLast night, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and ALOUD held a program on what the Declaration of Independence's famous line “pursuit of happiness” means today, with guests Pico Iyer, Héctor Tobar, Youngmi Mayer, Gary Tyler, and Ted Widmer. Watch the full event: www.youtube.com/live/fSFOWKf...
@libraryofamerica.bsky.socialLOA is back at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, 9/27! Swing by our booths (#426 & 427) between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. to enter a boxed set raffle, browse discounted volumes, and get a handsome and capacious LOA tote, free with your purchase while supplies last! More info: brooklynbookfestival.org
@libraryofamerica.bsky.socialShirley Jackson’s final novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, was published 64 years ago today. Called “a paean to agoraphobia,” the book has touched many. On loa.org, author Nghiem Tran writes how Jackson created “characters who unabashedly chose to be alone instead of changing themselves.”
@hillnadell.bsky.socialReposted by @libraryofamerica.bsky.socialOur first look at AMERICAN FLASH FICTION, edited by @davidulin.bsky.social!
Coming soon from @libraryofamerica.bsky.social, this anthology collects very short stories from 100 literary luminaries.
LA—Join David Ulin and Ivy Pochoda at Skylight Books on 9/23 at 7pm!
#flashfiction #anthology
@libraryofamerica.bsky.socialWe were so delighted you could join us, @nghivo.bsky.social! It was a really fascinating program.
@rebeccarash.bsky.socialReposted by @libraryofamerica.bsky.socialIt's here! @libraryofamerica.bsky.social The Complete Earthsea collection by Ursula K LeGuin. library of America did an incredible job with this one. #booksky 💙📚
@libraryofamerica.bsky.socialLast night, @nghivo.bsky.social, @brianattebery.bsky.social, and Karen Joy Fowler explored Ursula K. Le Guin's magical archipelago of Earthsea in our first LOA LIVE program of the fall. Watch the recording on our YouTube channel for a fascinating look at this foundational fantasy classic.
