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Forthcoming: Fall 2020
A major new anthology of African American poetry, our inaugural Ernest Hemingway volume, and more Shirley Jackson and Ursula K. Le Guin are all on our slate for the second half of this year.

Gillian Osborne hears "the sometimes desperate and often darkly humorous music of a late style" in Melville's poetry—thoughtful @BostonReview look at our HERMAN MELVILLE: COMPLETE POEMS.
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Library of America offers grants to libraries to celebrate African American poetry
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Samuel R. Delany: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Super-Nova
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Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson”
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“One backward glance” — Daniel H. Weiss on Michael O’Donnell and the tragic era of Vietnam

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Jean Stafford: Complete Novels LOA N°324
American Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s
March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s LOA N°325
The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life

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Writer of the Week Jean Stafford
“With a childlike calm and clarity, Stafford looked into the abyss.”—Ann Hurlburt
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