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Library of America is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing.
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On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, among the most significant speeches in American history. Despite its 2-minute, 10-sentence duration, this immortal oration has resurfaced in everything from the remarks of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the Constitution of France.
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, among the most significant speeches in American history. Despite its 2-minute, 10-sentence duration, this immortal oration has resurfaced in everything from the remarks of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the Constitution of France.
Explore giants of American literature during our annual holiday boxed set sale. Collected works, complete editions, sagas, trilogies, compendiums, and more. See all boxed sets at loa.org/boxedsets. Sale ends Tuesday, 11/25
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Explore giants of American literature during our annual holiday boxed set sale. Collected works, complete editions, sagas, trilogies, compendiums, and more. See all boxed sets at loa.org/boxedsets. Sale ends Tuesday, 11/25
The first volume of Emily Dickinson’s Poems was published posthumously 135 years ago, on November 12, 1890. After discovering the manuscripts in which Dickinson had collected her writing, her sister, Lavinia, worked to have the poems edited and published—igniting a bitter family feud in the process.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The first volume of Emily Dickinson’s Poems was published posthumously 135 years ago, on November 12, 1890. After discovering the manuscripts in which Dickinson had collected her writing, her sister, Lavinia, worked to have the poems edited and published—igniting a bitter family feud in the process.
On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
Spotted in The Diplomat on Netflix: a row of Library of America books behind White House Chief of Staff Billie Appiah (played by Nana Mensah). Hard to see the individual volumes, though pretty sure that’s Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part One on the left. S3 E7 for the curious.
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Spotted in The Diplomat on Netflix: a row of Library of America books behind White House Chief of Staff Billie Appiah (played by Nana Mensah). Hard to see the individual volumes, though pretty sure that’s Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part One on the left. S3 E7 for the curious.
Two weeks after casting her ballot in the 1872 Presidential election on November 5, Susan B. Anthony was arrested and charged with “knowingly voting without having a lawful right to vote.” Convicted and fined $100, Anthony called the verdict “the greatest judicial outrage history has ever recorded.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Two weeks after casting her ballot in the 1872 Presidential election on November 5, Susan B. Anthony was arrested and charged with “knowingly voting without having a lawful right to vote.” Convicted and fined $100, Anthony called the verdict “the greatest judicial outrage history has ever recorded.”
In bookstores now: the LOA edition of John Guare’s plays, praised by Tony Kushner as “an original combination of realism, dream state, psychopathology, vision, delusion, humor, compassion, grief, and terror.” Discover the writer of Six Degrees of Separation and order your copy: loa.org/books/plays/
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In bookstores now: the LOA edition of John Guare’s plays, praised by Tony Kushner as “an original combination of realism, dream state, psychopathology, vision, delusion, humor, compassion, grief, and terror.” Discover the writer of Six Degrees of Separation and order your copy: loa.org/books/plays/
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in his acceptance speech for the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in the author’s absence on Oct. 28 (Hemingway was recuperating from a series of plane crashes at the time). (1/2)
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in his acceptance speech for the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in the author’s absence on Oct. 28 (Hemingway was recuperating from a series of plane crashes at the time). (1/2)
Ernest Hemingway’s first novel The Sun Also Rises was published 99 years ago this week, with a “respectably sexy” Hellenistic cover that Hemingway’s editor thought would appeal to “the feminine readers who control the destinies of so many novels.” A touch ironic for the he-man of American letters...
October 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Ernest Hemingway’s first novel The Sun Also Rises was published 99 years ago this week, with a “respectably sexy” Hellenistic cover that Hemingway’s editor thought would appeal to “the feminine readers who control the destinies of so many novels.” A touch ironic for the he-man of American letters...
In bookstores today, LOA’s one-volume edition of Octavia E. Butler’s Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, featuring the classic novels Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago. Genius works of Afrofuturism, they ask enduring questions about colonization, gender, technology, and the future of humankind.
October 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In bookstores today, LOA’s one-volume edition of Octavia E. Butler’s Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, featuring the classic novels Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago. Genius works of Afrofuturism, they ask enduring questions about colonization, gender, technology, and the future of humankind.
A clowder of advance readers got their paws on @ursulakleguin.com’s Book of Cats (yes, sitting on top of a book counts as reading for these little guys). Explore this full-color album of cat-centric poems, cartoons, and prose pieces, in bookstores today. loa.org/books/ursula-k-le-guins-book-of-cats/
October 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A clowder of advance readers got their paws on @ursulakleguin.com’s Book of Cats (yes, sitting on top of a book counts as reading for these little guys). Explore this full-color album of cat-centric poems, cartoons, and prose pieces, in bookstores today. loa.org/books/ursula-k-le-guins-book-of-cats/
Reading Jim Thompson is like “being trapped in a bomb shelter with a chatty maniac who also happens to be the air raid warden,” wrote Robert Polito of the genius crime writer, born 119 years ago this September. Look for a collection of five of Thompson’s shocking best out from LOA in Spring 2026.
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reading Jim Thompson is like “being trapped in a bomb shelter with a chatty maniac who also happens to be the air raid warden,” wrote Robert Polito of the genius crime writer, born 119 years ago this September. Look for a collection of five of Thompson’s shocking best out from LOA in Spring 2026.
Don’t miss our fall preview sale, going on now through Friday, 9/26. Get 15% off all LOA books and sets, including new releases like our single-volume edition of Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats, and the works of playwright John Guare. Visit loa.org/books.
September 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Don’t miss our fall preview sale, going on now through Friday, 9/26. Get 15% off all LOA books and sets, including new releases like our single-volume edition of Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats, and the works of playwright John Guare. Visit loa.org/books.
A huge thanks to everyone who came out to the @bkbookfest.bsky.social this past weekend and stopped by LOA’s booth! We had a wonderful time meeting fellow mega-fans of great literature, chatting about our books, and enjoying the beautiful September weather. Check out some pictures from the event!
September 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A huge thanks to everyone who came out to the @bkbookfest.bsky.social this past weekend and stopped by LOA’s booth! We had a wonderful time meeting fellow mega-fans of great literature, chatting about our books, and enjoying the beautiful September weather. Check out some pictures from the event!
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats tote bags are in, and we’re happy to report they can comfortably fit four or five LOA volumes, a small grocery run, or one full-sized cat. Find us at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday to get yours (booths 405 & 406)! www.loa.org/books/ursula...
September 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats tote bags are in, and we’re happy to report they can comfortably fit four or five LOA volumes, a small grocery run, or one full-sized cat. Find us at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday to get yours (booths 405 & 406)! www.loa.org/books/ursula...
With Gilmore Girls back on Netflix, we’ve been seeing a surge of people asking about our Dawn Powell volumes (sample below). As Rory says in S2Ep20, “She wrote 16 amazing novels, 9 plays, and there are some who actually claim that it was Powell who made the jokes that Dorothy Parker got credit for.”
September 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
With Gilmore Girls back on Netflix, we’ve been seeing a surge of people asking about our Dawn Powell volumes (sample below). As Rory says in S2Ep20, “She wrote 16 amazing novels, 9 plays, and there are some who actually claim that it was Powell who made the jokes that Dorothy Parker got credit for.”
Farewell to iconic actor and director Robert Redford, who played perhaps the greatest on-screen characterization of Jay Gatsby in the 1974 film version of Fitzgerald’s famous novel, with a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola. Here he is opposite Mia Farrow, who starred as Daisy in the adaptation.
September 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Farewell to iconic actor and director Robert Redford, who played perhaps the greatest on-screen characterization of Jay Gatsby in the 1974 film version of Fitzgerald’s famous novel, with a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola. Here he is opposite Mia Farrow, who starred as Daisy in the adaptation.
Georgia Douglas Johnson, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was born 145 years ago. A prolific playwright, she hosted her “Saturday Salons” in Washington, DC, for more than 40 years, welcoming poets and writers including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Alain Locke, and Jessie Redmon Fauset.
September 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Georgia Douglas Johnson, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was born 145 years ago. A prolific playwright, she hosted her “Saturday Salons” in Washington, DC, for more than 40 years, welcoming poets and writers including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Alain Locke, and Jessie Redmon Fauset.
This Weds., 9/10, four eminent scholars discuss Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, a prescient account of the virtues and dangers of our politics and culture. With @jbf1755.bsky.social, Steven Hahn, James T. Kloppenberg, and Olivier Zunz. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-de...
September 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This Weds., 9/10, four eminent scholars discuss Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, a prescient account of the virtues and dangers of our politics and culture. With @jbf1755.bsky.social, Steven Hahn, James T. Kloppenberg, and Olivier Zunz. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-de...
The word “hippie” debuted in print 60 years ago, in an article by Michael Fallon: “Five untroubled young ‘hippies’ sprawled on floor mattresses and slouched in an armchair retrieved from a debris box, flipped cigarette ashes at a seatbelt in their Waller Street flat and pondered their next move.”
September 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The word “hippie” debuted in print 60 years ago, in an article by Michael Fallon: “Five untroubled young ‘hippies’ sprawled on floor mattresses and slouched in an armchair retrieved from a debris box, flipped cigarette ashes at a seatbelt in their Waller Street flat and pondered their next move.”
Helen Vender could “second-guess the sixth sense of the poem,” Seamus Heaney once said. In bookstores today, discover the final transmissions from this brilliant poetry critic, discussing writers from John Donne to Ocean Vuong in thirteen revelatory essays. www.loa.org/books/inheri...
September 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Helen Vender could “second-guess the sixth sense of the poem,” Seamus Heaney once said. In bookstores today, discover the final transmissions from this brilliant poetry critic, discussing writers from John Donne to Ocean Vuong in thirteen revelatory essays. www.loa.org/books/inheri...
This September, join @nytimes.com critic @alissawilkinson.bsky.social for a four-part online course exploring the writing of Joan Didion, from her celebrated essays to less-known works illuminating her political and pop-culture fascinations. Find out more and RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/joan-didio...
August 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This September, join @nytimes.com critic @alissawilkinson.bsky.social for a four-part online course exploring the writing of Joan Didion, from her celebrated essays to less-known works illuminating her political and pop-culture fascinations. Find out more and RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/joan-didio...
On Wednesday, 9/10, join LOA LIVE for a discussion of Alexis de Tocqueville’s prescient masterpiece, Democracy in America, featuring distinguished scholars @jbf1755.bsky.social, Steven Hahn, James T. Kloppenberg, and Oliver Zunz. Find out more and RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-de...
August 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
On Wednesday, 9/10, join LOA LIVE for a discussion of Alexis de Tocqueville’s prescient masterpiece, Democracy in America, featuring distinguished scholars @jbf1755.bsky.social, Steven Hahn, James T. Kloppenberg, and Oliver Zunz. Find out more and RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-de...
Last chance to watch! Our exclusive online screening of O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder ends tonight, 8/21. RSVP for free and we’ll send you a link to view this fascinating film on one of America’s most influential poets and environmental writers: email.loa.org/h/i/3F28A6B7...
August 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Last chance to watch! Our exclusive online screening of O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder ends tonight, 8/21. RSVP for free and we’ll send you a link to view this fascinating film on one of America’s most influential poets and environmental writers: email.loa.org/h/i/3F28A6B7...
LOA sends a hearty congratulations (and a volume of Octavia E. Butler’s incomparable novels and stories) to the new graduates of the Clemente Course in the Humanities in Port Townsend, WA! Thanking her teachers, one student said, “You have pulled me out of the mud and now I feel like I can fly.”
August 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
LOA sends a hearty congratulations (and a volume of Octavia E. Butler’s incomparable novels and stories) to the new graduates of the Clemente Course in the Humanities in Port Townsend, WA! Thanking her teachers, one student said, “You have pulled me out of the mud and now I feel like I can fly.”