Tag: Library of America
Book Review: Charles Portis, Collected Works
Book Review: Charles Portis, Collected Works, Editor, Jay Jennings, Library of America – The Library of America offers homage in a new collected works edition to American author Charles Portis, whose notoriety springs from his novel, “True Grit,” that was transformed into a popular 1968 feature film starring John Wayne.
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Review: Gary Snyder Collected Poems
Gary Snyder Collected Poems, Editors: Jack Shoemaker & Anthony Hunt, Library of America – American poet and essayist Gary Snyder, still living at age 92, remains a staunch advocate for protection of the earth.
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Review: Kingston edited by Viet Thahn Nguyen
Review: Kingston, edited by Viet Thahn Nguyen, The Library of Congress – The Bicentenary year of 1976 marked Maxine Hong Kingston’s arrival on the American literary scene with the publication of her work The Woman Warrior, winner of the National Book Critics Circle award.
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Interview: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby and Other Writings 1920–26
Interview: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby and Other Writings 1920–26 – The long-awaited second volume of Library of America’s Fitzgerald edition is here!
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Book Review: The Heart of American Poetry by Edward Hirsch
Book Review: The Heart of American Poetry, Edward Hirsch, Library of America – Excavating “The Heart of American Poetry” is no easy task but acclaimed poet and critic Edward Hirsch has accomplished exactly that, in his Library of America’s analysis of 40 poems.
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Review: John Williams: Collected Novels
John Williams: Collected Novels, Daniel Mendelsohn, Editor, Library of America – The Library of America has paid homage to John Williams
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REVIEW: Ray Bradbury Novels & Story Cycles Edited by J. R. Eller
Review: Ray Bradbury Novels & Story Cycles Edited by J. R. Eller, Library of America – Four of Ray Bradbury’s literary works from the 1950s and 1960s, including the prescient Fahrenheit 451, are now available in a single volume issued by The Library of America.
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Book Reviews: Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 edited by Sean Wilentz
Hofstadter: Uncollected Essays 1956-1965, Sean Wilentz Editor, Library of America – Pulitzer prize-winning historian Richard Hofstadter possessed a genuine feel for trends in American society.
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Book Review: Updike Novels 1968-1975 edited by Christopher Carduff
Updike Novels 1968-1975, Christopher Carduff Editor, Library of America – John Updike won two Pulitzer Prizes for his “Rabbit” tetralogy, a series about the disturbing life of an ordinary man, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the protagonist whose risky doings are a mirror response to events such as the Cold War, Vietnam, sex, drugs and civil rights protests.
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Woolson: Collected stories edited by Anne Boyd Rioux
Woolson: Collected stories, Anne Boyd Rioux editor, Library of America – In her lifetime Constance Fenimore Woolson achieved a remarkable degree of commercial success as well as literary acclaim, an achievement almost unheard of for a woman author of the Victorian era.
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Jean Stafford Complete Novels edited by Kathryn Davids
Jean Stafford Complete Novels, edited by Kathryn Davids, Library of America – Pulitzer-Prize-winner Jean Stafford gets renewed attention from The Library of America with three of her most important works in one edition. Boston Adventure is a dense work written in 1944 that garnered her national acclaim …
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Frances Hodgson Burnett edited by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Library of America – Whenever you ask middle school readers what their favorite novel is, you’ll often hear “I love The Sercret Garden!” Possibly you’ll hear, “I love A Little Princess, too!” as both of these classic tales have been turned into big-budget movies with gorgeous settings and great acting in recent times.
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