“You’re not reading your grandfather’s short story”— Charles McGrath on the fiction of Donald Barthelme

Adopt this book: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Poems & Other Writings

Red Smith, “Kings Get in Free”

Ernest Hemingway, “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”

Elizabeth Spencer, “The White Azalea”

The Light in the Piazza: From Page to Stage

Forthcoming: Spring 2022

“Engaging, embracing, confiding, and humane”—David Quammen on the work of E. O. Wilson

James Weldon Johnson, “Stranger Than Fiction”

Library of America and the Chicago Public Library celebrate Juneteenth

On Extended Wings: American Birds and American Writing

E. O. Wilson, “Krakatau”

LOA Live’s bird-themed cocktail recipes

Adopt this book: Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi

Library of America Diverse Voices Fellowship (now hiring for Fall 2021)

Michael Gorra: Elizabeth Spencer and the 1956 novel deprived of the Pulitzer Prize