Kate Wilhelm, “Baby, You Were Great”
Ashby Williams, “I Am Not Dead”
Leonard S. Marcus on Madeleine L’Engle, the “fearless experimenter” of children’s literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Benediction”
George Strock and Life magazine, “Three Americans”
LOA greets friends old and new in return appearance at Brooklyn Book Festival
Mary Antin, “My Country”
The first rule of Fight Club: Violence in Congress and the road to civil war
“Monsters lurk everywhere”: Sarah Weinman uncovers the real-life crime behind Nabokov’s Lolita
Lisa Yaszek: We get the history of women in science fiction “thoroughly wrong”
Intern guest post: The “irrepressible cry” in a novel of social critique
Ulysses S. Grant, “Letters from Matamoros”
Intern guest post: An author who wrote all about, and for, flawed women
LOA Harlem Renaissance eBooks continue with the poet dubbed “the Black Keats”
Forrest Gander: Writing from the edge of the abyss—the books that influenced Be With
Alice Eleanor Jones, “Created He Them”
