James Thurber, “If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox”
The long, hard-fought campaign that led to The Library of America’s founding
How a Library of America book is born
Edith Wharton, “In the North”
Thomas Mallon: Shut off cable news and read Eudora Welty instead
The Goodbye Look: The “most unusual story” that brought Ross Macdonald mainstream success
Rejecting Claude McKay: An author’s lost, and last, novel
Mary McCarthy, “The Unspoiled Reaction”
Philip Roth, “Patrimony”
Photos: Library of America goes on the road to Brooklyn Book Festival