American Christmas Stories
Cara Blue Adams: Denis Johnson’s “lush minimalism” and other influences on You Never Get It Back
Dorothy Parker, “The Christmas Magazines and the Inevitable Story of the Snowbound Train”
Jack London, “In a Far Country”
Adopt this book: Shirley Jackson, Novels & Stories
How W.E.B. Du Bois restored Black eyewitness accounts to the history of Reconstruction
Mark Twain, “How I Escaped Being Killed in a Duel”
2021 LOA in the Classroom: Students discover never-published novel by Richard Wright
Leopoldine Core: Nella Larsen’s radical Passing and other influences on When Watched
John Muir, “Yosemite Valley in Flood”
Sarah Pinsker: Octavia Butler, Woody Guthrie, and other classics that inspired my debut
Siri Hustvedt, Deborah Eisenberg, and other contemporary writers read ten stories by Sherwood Anderson
Stephen Crane, “An Episode of War”
Shangyang Fang: Hearing the “meticulous music” in contemporary American poetry
Edith Wharton, “Miss Mary Pask”
Meet S. J. Perelman, the “writer’s writer” who was audacious, original, and funny
