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On 6/21, join @katebolick for a free, virtual LOA LIVE event on Nancy Hale, an overlooked master of twentieth-century fiction whose lost classics, including the best-selling 1942 novel “The Prodigal Women,” were recently released in paperback. RSVP here: https://eventbrite.com/e/rediscover-the-pathbreaking-fiction-of-nancy-hale-with-kate-bolick-registration-652844414217?aff=twitter
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Spring 2023 LOA in the Classroom: students learn Thoreau’s ideas on our responsibility to the natural world
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“Natural magic”: Philip Davis on the unapologetic heart-work of Bernard Malamud
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“The Main Death,” Dashiell Hammett

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Nancy Hale: The Prodigal Women (paperback and LOA eBook Classic)
Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale (paperback and LOA eBook Classic)
Charles Portis: Collected Works LOA N°369
Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems LOA N°368
Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946 LOA N°364

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