Gregg Sutter on Elmore Leonard’s “dialogue-driven crime novels with an emphasis on character”
Elmore Leonard: John Steinbeck “set me free”
Dan Wakefield on Kurt Vonnegut: “If anything he was a counter-counter-culture hero”
“Never Bet the Devil Your Head,” Edgar Allan Poe
Laurence Senelick on the plays of Arthur Miller’s middle phase, experimentalism in theater, and (of course) Marilyn Monroe
Library of America’s Top 10 Story of the Week Selections of 2015
Darryl Pinckney: James Baldwin “stood his ground and paid a price”
“The Eating-Houses,” George G. Foster
Sandra Simonds: Plath, Ginsberg, and an “urgently necessary” personal canon
Women Crime Writers: Dolores Hitchens resurgence continues with four new e-books
New York exhibition showcases Lynd Ward as both pioneering graphic novelist and master illustrator
Lewis Dabney on Edmund Wilson, “a storyteller, a master of exposition and compressed intellectual analysis”
August 2010: Editor Art Spiegelman on Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts
Forthcoming from The Library of America (Winter–Spring 2016)
Charles Baxter on the “moments in any Sherwood Anderson story that you just can’t forget”
“The Greatest Man in the World,” James Thurber
