Laurence Maslon answers your questions about the great American musical

Susan Ware: Why the Nineteenth Amendment matters

Are You There Ursula? It’s Me, Sean

Fifty more great opening lines from American novels

Fifty more great opening lines, identified

Forthcoming: Spring 2021

Zora Neale Hurston: Video of her ethnographic work in Florida in 1928

Fifty of the most memorable opening lines in American novels—revealed!

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Library of America Swag-a-palooza!

Forthcoming: Spring–Summer 2020

Forthcoming: Fall 2020

A reading list for “the most deadly pandemic in human history”

Library of America offers grants to libraries to celebrate African American poetry

Shelf awareness: Unscientific sample proves LOA volumes lend instant “bookcase credibility”

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