“I first heard about the New York underground scene in the 1950s, and it seemed like a mysterious and thrilling way to live. To be an artist in the West Village became my dream. Reading Glenn’s collection has inspired me all over…
“Just how groundbreaking is this latest installment of the Library of America series? It is so, first and foremost, by its very existence. The only other early American poetry anthology currently in print is—get ready for this—a recent…
“[T]hese colorful works reveal a side of the author—that of a travel writer—all too often ignored.” — Dallas Morning News
“James Baldwin’s gift to our literary tradition is that rarest of treasures, a rhetoric of fiction and the essay that is, at once, Henry Jamesian and King Jamesian.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Fifty years after the turmoil of 1968, modern America’s most turbulent decade comes to life though the collected writings of its greatest literary provocateur
“The Town and The Mansion contain some of Faulkner’s most robust humor…. The Reivers was the final book of a physically and emotionally wasted writer. But it has a clear virtue: … the novel i…
“London had an aspect of a proletarian Byron: illegitimate, handsome, wildly romantic, casting himself as the rebel and revolutionary, admired by Leon Trotsky for his anti-capitalist polemics. He was the archetypal early burn-out, dead…
“This superbly edited collection…adds up to an extraordinary autobiographical portrait.” — Publishers Weekly