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Always Coming Home: The Ursula K. Le Guin book that breaks the novel form “wide open”
Originally published in 1985, Le Guin’s most ambitious feat of world-building is now reissued in an expanded form that makes it clear just what a boundary-pushing work it is.

For @tordotcom, @charliejane plunges into the Hainish Cycle of @ursulaleguin: "read and considered as a whole, [it] feels like an even more impressive accomplishment than its stellar individual works"
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Remembering “the Proteus of American poets,” W. S. Merwin, 1927–2019
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Gabrielle Bellot: James Baldwin as “a prophet of love” in If Beale Street Could Talk
Influences

Sarah Pinsker: Octavia Butler, Woody Guthrie, and other classics that inspired my debut
Story of the Week

Mary H. Myers, “Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut”

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Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (Author's Expanded Edition) LOA N°315
Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated Edition (boxed set)
Jean Toomer: Cane (LOA eBook Classic)
Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows LOA N°314
Dance in America: A Reader’s Anthology

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Writer of the Week Ann Petry
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