“This hefty collection of Thurber could not have been better done. . . . Reputations fade so quickly these days that even the fame of a comic genius such as Thurber needs to be dusted off and reintroduced to each succeeding generation.…
“As the testimony accumulates, a profound portrait of a nation in crisis emerges, conjuring the epic quality of the conflict and its consequences as almost nothing before it. It is both mesmerizing and deeply troubling, and it will forever…
“If one trait can account for John Updike’s staying power, it is the man’s exquisite grasp of ordinary miracles.”—The Boston Globe
“This corrected edition of The Grapes of Wrath is essential for all serious American literature collections.” — Library Journal
“The work of [Roth’s] middle years was frequently magnificent, as anyone will acknowledge who even dips into The Library of America’s new single-volume edition of four of the Zuckerman books.” — John Banville, The…
“If only civil rights were taught this way in our classrooms! Personal narratives, together with gripping newspaper accounts and essays written between 1941 and 1973, make the two-volume Reporting Civil Rights a vital national…
“I consider her the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters. Her work, her life: deep truth, observed without pretension, with humor and humanity. An artist and person, an angel.”—Tennessee Williams