“The generous, 961-page anthology edited by Ian Frazier strikes a balance between signature masterworks and unearthed treasures in attempting to capture the sweep of Lardner’s prolific output during his short life. . . . As with Twain, the…
“Ammons (1926–2001) was a difficult figure to pin down. While unassociated with any particular poetic school or group, he picked up threads from Whitman, Williams, Frost and Stevens, weaving them into poetry all his own: equal parts pastoral…
“The best single-volume collection of Liebling’s domestic writings that could possibly be put together.” — Terry Teachout, National Review ——— “The essential Liebling.”— Fortune
Foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Alexander Wolff has put together this collection like a master point guard distributing the ball, deftly providing both a chronology of the game and a full, rich accounting of its place in American…
“To read this new edition of Chesnutt’s work is to see him not only as the first major black American novelist, and not only as a master of the short story, but also as the preeminent literary voice of what still remains—or is onc…
“Even in a publishing series as uniformly superb as the invaluable Library of America, there are some books that stand out. This is, without question, one of the Library of America’s stellar contributions to American literature…
Spanning two centuries, 100 selections about the beauty and magic of American dance—from ballet and Balanchine to tap and swing. With a foreword by Robert Gottlieb