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"Black Writers of the Founding Era" is now on sale everywhere!
Explore this new anthology edited by James G. Basker, President & CEO of @Gilder_Lehrman, and Nicole Seary, Senior Editor & Director of Fellowship Programs at @Gilder_Lehrman.
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In our roundtable celebrating Ursula K. Le Guin’s 94th birthday, @plotznik, @arwencurry, @Such_Mayer, and @Jcfphillips explore Le Guin’s canon, and its political and aesthetic impact today. buff.ly/3Qb2Ilf
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“I had ratty, dog-eared copies of Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles” and “Something Wicked This Way Comes.” The former instilled wonder; the latter wonder mixed with dread and longing. These feelings competed with each other inside my teenage skull.” bit.ly/3Q7eA9n
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Proud to be a project manager for Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home @LibraryAmerica. Grants are offered to all public, academic, and community college libraries, museums, and nonprofit community organizations for programs exploring Latino poetry.
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Although he is known for novels such as the dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451 & the horror novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, much of Ray Bradbury’s best work was in the short-story form. Check out this list of Bradbury’s top short stories of all time. bit.ly/45DY2eg
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Today's inspo:
The first page of James M. Cain’s POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE manuscript, with its original title and its iconic opening line ...
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First published in 1968, and newly reissued in a @LibraryAmerica omnibus of fiction by Charles Portis, TRUE GRIT remains a classic literary Western—or perhaps better, anti-Western. bit.ly/46E4CCw #TrueGrit
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#OnThisDay in 1895, @NYPL was founded when the Astor and Lenox Libraries combined with the Tilden Trust.
Exactly 16 years later, on May 23, 1911, the grand Beaux-Arts building on 42nd Street opened its doors to the public for the first time.
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Lost in the stacks: Nancy Hale (1908-1988)
@legroff: "makes me riotously angry that such a brilliant & important writer could fall out of public consciousness."
@nysoclib : 13 works of fiction + essays, memoir & biography: bit.ly/3VPjvgp
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A beloved son of Nuevo México, Rudolfo Anaya transformed the literary landscape of the late 20th century. Denise Chávez and Luis Alberto Urrea take the Festival stage with “Recuerdos y Respeto: Homage to Rudolfo Anaya” at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 21.
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We had an amazing time visiting with our friends at @LibraryAmerica last week for Indie Press Spring Wednesday! Next week we meet with @HolidayHouseBks for the conclusion of this great series. Stop by the @NYPLSNFL from 12-2 pm on 4/26 and join us! See you there!
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Edward Hirsch’s labor of love celebrates centuries of American verse, from Anne Bradstreet to Joy Harjo.
Jeffrey Johnson reviews The Heart of American Poetry.
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Re-re-re-reading Du Bois's Black Reconstruction." And, damn, this brilliant man was also such a gorgeous writer. Like, we know this, but still. Damn.
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Strolling in Midtown Manhattan? Come to @NYPLSNFL, meet some local small press & indie publishers, and check out their inspiring new reads. bit.ly/3J32dHD
@VersoBooks @otherpress @soho_press @melvillehouse @KensingtonBooks @LibraryAmerica @HolidayHouseBks
ALT Indie Press Spring Wednesdays @ SNFL. March 8 - April 26 @ Noon. New York Public Library, Verso Books, Other Press, Holiday House, Library of America, Melville House, Kensington Books, and Soho Press logos.
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In the spring of 2021, a literary mystery arose at the 92nd Street Y. A galley proof of The New Yorker, dated from 1995, contained an unfamiliar poem by the late poet Mark Strand. Yet the work was never published. nyer.cm/gXwbTBs
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Patricia Highsmith’s early diaries, with all their passions and reversals, reveal the writer’s abiding conviction in her worth as an artist and an individual.
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In honor of Norman Mailer’s centenary, @LibraryAmerica reissues his classic first novel The Naked and the Dead. I tell @PatBattle4NY @Gus4NY about my father’s 1948 letter from Mailer and my signed first edition. nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-see… #normanmailer
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The New York Public Library has acquired a trove of materials belonging to Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne. nyti.ms/3DiTu0F
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Crime Writers of Color is thrilled to receive the Raven Award for 2023! On behalf of our almost 400 members, we want to thank the @EdgarAwards for this incredible honor! Congrats to our co-founders @kellyekell @GigiPandian & Walter Mosley for this much-deserved recognition!
