Shirley Jackson, “Biography of a Story”

William Cronon: The life, power, and magical prose of Loren Eiseley’s science and nature writing

Robert Hagy, “The Worst News That I Have Encountered in the Last 20 Years”

Game, set, match: Bill Gates names String Theory one of his five books of the year

Albert Murray saluted as writer, mentor, and friend at New York City’s 92nd Street Y

Loren Eiseley, “The Fifth Planet”

Carson McCullers, “Wunderkind”

In London, LOA founding trustee receives major award for a lifetime of scholarship

Todd Tietchen: “It took a while for literary culture to catch up with what Kerouac had accomplished”

Suzanne Vega talks about Carson McCullers

Terror, suspense, and the power of suggestion in The Haunting

Watch: Yusef Komunyakaa on a fellow poet and soldier’s “rendezvous with death”

Mark Twain, “My First Lie and How I Got Out of It”

Julian Hawthorne, “Absolute Evil”

Listen: An Albert Murray playlist for jumping, kicking, swinging, or stomping the blues

The Centurions: Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray