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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[Before and After: Bringing the Bullfighting Photos of Ernest Hemingway’s &lt;em&gt;Death in the Afternoon&lt;/em&gt; Back to Life]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Spare, limpid, sharp, impressionistic, Ernest Hemingway’s writing style reflects, at once, the journalist’s credo to faithfully document reality and the modernist’s mission to plumb the depths of experience and observation, going beyond obvious surfaces to, in Ezra Pound’s immortal slogan, “make it new.” Perhaps no other work by Hemingway balances these two modes of seeing [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Burning Down the House: Reading Faulkner’s Short Stories Now]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE ﻿﻿ September 24, 2024—LOA LIVE returns with an evening dedicated to three revelatory short masterpieces by William Faulkner—the powerful “Barn Burning,” the comic “Shingles for the Lord,” and the dark and haunting “That Evening Sun”— that explore different facets of their author’s genius and the mythic world of Yoknapatawpha County. Funny and terrifying, [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“It’s an Honor,” Jimmy Breslin]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[From Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings Graveside view during the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy with members of the Kennedy family, officials, and dignitaries. Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, November 25, 1963. Photograph by White House photographer Cecil W. Stoughton (1920–2008). Courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Jimmy Breslin had been [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Adopt This Book: &lt;em&gt;John Cheever: Collected Stories &#038; Other Writings&lt;/em&gt;]]></title>
                <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10781</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[If you believe in Library of America’s mission and would like to support us in a substantial way, nothing is more helpful than endowing a volume in the series to keep it permanently in print. Your gift will have prominent recognition in the book, and as a Guardian of American Letters you will make a [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Truman Capote at 100: A Chameleon Poet]]></title>
                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[To celebrate Truman Capote’s centennial this September, we’re excited to share this appreciation of his remarkable oeuvre by author Robert Pranzatelli. by Robert Pranzatelli One spring afternoon in the late 1980s, I sat at a large wooden table in the New York Public Library, in a room dedicated to rare holdings, and looked through a [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Love in the Night,” F.&nbsp;Scott Fitzgerald]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[From F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men &#038; Other Writings 1920–1926 Vieux port de Cannes, 1918, oil on canvas by Paul Signac (1863–1935). Wikimedia Commons. Like many of his fellow authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald desperately wanted to have a hit on Broadway. In 1923, he finally found a Broadway producer [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Register Now: American Writers in Paris, an online course with Adam Gopnik]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10763</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[This fall, embark for the European capital of our national literature with bestselling New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik. This four-part online course, inspired by Gopnik’s Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology, offers a guided tour of the City of Light through the eyes of Americans who discovered personal and creative freedom amid its rues, [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[A Tremendous Continental Mixturao: Celebrating Latino Poetry]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10751</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[The vast and multifarious tradition of Latino poetry in America—spanning more than five centuries, transcending national borders, encompassing dozens of distinctive movements and styles—resists easy summary. As poet and critic Rigoberto González, editor of the just-released Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, remarks, “We are not just one story, we are not just one [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Secret Paragraphs about My Brother,” Adrienne Kennedy]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10749</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From Adrienne Kennedy: Collected Plays &#038; Other Writings Adrienne Kennedy and Joseph Kennedy on their wedding day, May 15, 1953, at her family’s home in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland. To the left are his parents, Leon and Cara Kennedy, and to the right are her father, Cornell Wallace Hawkins; her brother, Cornell Jr.; and [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Holding Up a Train,” O. Henry]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[From O. Henry: 101 Stories “You’ll excuse my taking a look at the contents.” Illustration by Canadian American artist Charles Henry White (1878–1918) for the McClure’s Magazine publication of “Holding Up a Train.” When William Sydney Porter (known to us as O. Henry) was just beginning to strike success after success as a writer, he [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Watch: Honor Moore and Clara Bingham on the Revolutionary Writings of Women’s Liberation]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10737</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[The 1960s and ’70s marked a political watershed for women in the United States, producing vibrant streams of protest and resistance that continue to shape American ideas of identity, activism, and our shared future as a nation. In a filmed conversation with Library of America, Honor Moore and Clara Bingham—two acclaimed authors with deep connections [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Funny, Scary, and Delightfully Weird”: Lena Valencia on the Many Faces of Literary Terror]]></title>
                <pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Southwest Shirley Jackson: that’s the comparison that floats like ectoplasm through the minds of readers who encounter the horripilating stories of Lena Valencia, whose debut collection, Mystery Lights, is out this month from Tin House. Set in desert landscapes where natural beauty and supernatural forces combine to throw her horror-habituated characters—ghost hunters, slasher-flick screenwriters, UFO [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Wendell Berry’s Writings Donated to Libraries Throughout Kentucky]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10697</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Acclaimed worldwide as a writer and advocate for sustainable living, the novelist, poet, essayist, activist, cultural critic, and farmer Wendell Berry still identifies closely with his roots in rural Kentucky and the Port Royal farm where he has lived for more than sixty years. Now, a gift marking Berry’s ninetieth birthday this August will bring [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Your Friend, Wendell”: A 90th Birthday Tribute to Wendell Berry]]></title>
                <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 13:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10682</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Across genre, whether in novels depicting the sweep of history in small-town Kentucky or nonfiction perorating on behalf of a renewed human relationship with the earth, Wendell Berry remains one of America’s most profound interpreters of place and people. A farmer-writer of uncommon moral clarity, he mixes a contrarian independence of mind with a rare [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“The Rockpile,” James Baldwin]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10690</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From James Baldwin: Early Novels &#038; Stories “Harlem Tenement in Summer,” 1939, photograph by Sid Grossman for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year marks the centennial of the birth of James Baldwin, who was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924. Influential and [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Dinaw Mengestu on American Writers Who Have Astounded, Moved, Haunted, and Influenced Him]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[This article was originally published in 2011 on Library of America’s Reader’s Almanac blog. In our continuing series of guest blog posts by writers of fiction, history, essays, and poetry, Dinaw Mengestu, whose second novel, How to Read the Air, was published last October, describes the impact several American writers have had on his work. [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“An Army with Banners,” James Weldon Johnson]]></title>
                <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2024 17:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10674</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle (Part One: 1876–1919) Silent parade protesting the East St. Louis massacre and other recent atrocities, July 28, 1917. The procession, numbering between 10,000 and 15,000 men, women, and children, began at 57th Street and proceeded downtown to Madison Square at 23rd Street. The placard at front [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“In Another Country,” Ernest Hemingway]]></title>
                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[From Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms &#038; Other Writings 1927-1932 Physical Therapy at Bath Hospital, 1918. Watercolor by English artist E. Horton [Sarah Elizabeth Roberts Horton] (1865–1959). WikiCommons. Because of his poor eyesight, Ernest Hemingway could not enroll in the military when the U.S. entered World War I in the spring of 1917. “I’ll [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[A Voice for the Speechless Princess: Sarah Ruden on &lt;em&gt;Lavinia&lt;/em&gt;, Vergil’s &lt;em&gt;Aeneid&lt;/em&gt;, and the Wisdom of Ursula K. Le Guin]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/news-and-views/a-voice-for-the-speechless-princess-sarah-ruden-on-lavinia-vergils-aeneid-and-the-wisdom-of-ursula-k-le-guin/</link>
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                <description><![CDATA[In this guest post, award-winning translator Sarah Ruden shares her correspondence with Ursula K. Le Guin about their shared fascination with Lavinia, the princess depicted in Vergil’s epic poem the Aeneid. Le Guin’s own spin on the myth, Lavinia (2008), was her final novel; it appears in the new LOA edition Ursula K. Le Guin: [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“The Duel: ‘Once more Adieu,’” Alexander Hamilton]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.develop-loa.wordpress.n4m.net/?post_type=articles&#038;p=10655</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From The Essential Hamilton: Letters &amp; Other Writings Detail from The Monument to Alexander Hamilton at Weehawken, 1811–ca. 1813, watercolor and gouache on paper by Russian artist Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787–1839). Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of New York. Two hundred twenty years ago, on July 11, 1804, the most infamous duel in American history took place, [&hellip;]]]></description>
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