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A Healthy, Vigorous National Life | Andrew Schenker George Templeton Strong’s Civil War diaries are a sobering object lesson for today’s reader.

In @thebaffler.com, accolades for George Templeton Strong’s newly published Civil War Diaries: "Watching him navigate this new territory . . . is to observe a concerned citizen do his best to adapt as the political world changed rapidly and shockingly, a sobering object lesson for today’s reader."

Main Character Syndrome in Wartime by Julian Castronovo March 3, 2026 – On Kamala Harris’s memoir, 107 Days, and the Civil War diaries of George Templeton Strong.

In @parisreview.bsky.social, the unlikely link between the Civil War diaries of George Templeton Strong and Kamala Harris’s recent memoir: “It would seem that these writers... are main characters because their realities were, even during times of crisis and dissolution, like books.”

John McPhee’s Wild America, Revisited Edited by David Remnick, "John McPhee: Encounters in Wild America" gathers the great chronicler of landscape and character at his most elemental.

Our new edition of nonfiction giant John McPhee is an @airmail.news best! “Whether it be the Pine Barrens of New Jersey or the rivers of Maine and Alaska, McPhee is always in the company of locals whom he profiles as sharply as the terrain.” airmail.news/issues/2026-...

Jim Thompson / Five Noir Novels of fhe 1950s & 60s

Look at this beauty! I renewed my @libraryofamerica.bsky.social membership & they sent it to me.

Thurber's Dogs

In response to last year’s blockbuster Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats, we heard but one complaint from readers: what about the dogs? Now mankind’s other best friend gets its due with a deluxe reissue of Thurber’s Dogs, the classic collection of James Thurber’s meditations on canine companionship.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Parable, Fantasies, Fragments

Previously known only to a small cadre of scholars, these brief, intriguing pieces of Nathaniel Hawthorne reveal a hidden dimension of one of America’s greatest writers. In Parables, Fantasies, Fragments, discover the gnomic, gemlike works of a singular storyteller.

The Annotated Sun Also Rises

Set in 1920s Paris and Spain, Ernest Hemingway’s immortal novel The Sun Also Rises receives the full annotated treatment in a deluxe anniversary edition featuring LOA’s authoritative text, ample illustrations, and running commentary from a leading Hemingway scholar.

American Flash Fiction

Brief is beautiful in American Flash Fiction, a new anthology showcasing the visionary range of this miniature, mesmerizing form. Find famous voices like Mark Twain alongside Harlem Renaissance icon Zora Neale Hurston, hard-boiled maven Dashiell Hammett, and SF trailblazer Sofia Samatar.

Susan Sontag Collection

A handsome new boxed set gathers the landmark writings of peerless essayist Susan Sontag, featuring nine complete nonfiction collections, six uncollected essays, and the celebrated works Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and Regarding the Pain of Others.

Peter Straub: Novels of the 1970s

Horror visionary Peter Straub enters the LOA series with three terrifying novels: Julia (1975), If You Could See Me Now (1977), and the best-selling Ghost Story (1979). For only the fourth time, the LOA volume is edited by the author’s child, in this case acclaimed writer Emma Straub.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Earthsea

Often placed alongside Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, @ursulakleguin.com’s Earthsea saga is far stranger and philosophically compelling than the fantasies to which it’s often compared. A new definitive two-volume edition presents Le Guin’s most popular fictional world in a timeless new collection.

Forthcoming: Fall 2026 - Library of America Our country’s literature has never been one-size-fits-all, and Library of America’s upcoming roster of releases explores great writing at every magnitude, from an epic fantasy saga to a compendium of ...

American literature has never been one-size-fits-all, and LOA’s upcoming releases explore great writing at every magnitude, from epic fantasy to blink-and-you’ll-miss-it micro-fiction. Read on for details about our lineup of titles hitting bookstores in Fall 2026. www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

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Book cover for The Black Fantastic 20 Afrofuturist Stories

The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, edited by me, is a nominee for best collection for the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards! @libraryofamerica.bsky.social

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On Democracy (paperback) - Library of America Few writers have condemned America’s moral failures as harshly as Walt Whitman. But for all his fury over the nation’s “canker’d” political institutions (“saturated in corruption, bribery, falsehood, ...

LOA’s recently published Walt Whitman: On Democracy has debuted on not one but two (!!) best-seller lists, hitting No. 3 on the Independent Bookseller Independent Press Top 40 and No. 15 on the Independent Bookseller Bestseller list. Order your copy from LOA and save 25%: www.loa.org/books/on-dem...

Why Did Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the American Revolution? Michael Gorra, Wendy S. Walters, and Brenda Wineapple discuss four classic short stories that illuminate the founding moment.

Why did Rip Van Winkle sleep through the Revolution? Join Michael Gorra, Wendy S. Walters, and Brenda Wineapple for a discussion of four classic stories that imaginatively explore the meaning of America's founding moment. RSVP for free:
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YouTube video by Library of America Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry | Filmmaker Q&A

Last night, filmmaker Laura Dunn and Mary Berry of The Berry Center joined LOA for a fascinating Q&A on the documentary Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry. Watch a recording of the full conversation for an intimate look at Berry's world, writing, and philosophy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mbF...

After reading one page of Prof. Jim Endersby's "The Arrival of the Fittest" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) I interrupted my reading of it to read Edith Wharton's short story "The Debt" (@libraryofamerica.bsky.social) from which the title is taken so as to be ready for any forthcoming nuances. #Booksky

W.E.B. Du Bois - Library of America

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression,” wrote W.E.B. Du Bois, the influential writer, sociologist, and civil rights activist, born OTD in 1868. His classic works like The Souls of Black Folk—“the Bible for Black intellectuals,” as Henry Louis Gates, Jr., called it—remain vital.

Wendell Berry virtual screening. To RSVP, visit https://email.loa.org/h/i/3CEFCEC85E595373

This weekend only, catch a free, limited-time screening of Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, a documentary exploring the world of Henry County, KY, and its great chronicler. RSVP at this link and you’ll receive a link and passcode to view the film: email.loa.org/h/i/3CEFCEC8...

YouTube video by Library of America American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong

Last night, Brenda Wineapple and @geoffwisner.bsky.social discussed “the greatest American diary of the nineteenth century,”: George Templeton Strong’s civilian account of the Civil War in the north (recently published by LOA). Watch the full program for more on this historical-literary masterpiece.

The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong, with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner

Tonight, don’t miss our first free online program of the year, on the Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong—perhaps the greatest civilian account of the war, unfolding like a novel—with historian Brenda Wineapple and editor Geoff Wisner. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/american-m...

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YouTube video by Hey_ Joe Fill your hand you sonofabitch! - True Grit - John Wayne, Kim Darby & Glen Campbell

RIP to the great actor Robert Duvall, who appeared in screen adaptations of four works in the LOA series: True Grit, The Natural, The Scarlet Letter, and In Dubious Battle. He also starred in True Confessions, which Joan Didion helped write for the screen. youtu.be/vs1U7U9sgXA?...

Dime Stores & Bus Stations: Robert Polito on the Savage Art of Jim Thompson - Library of America Jim Thompson lived hard and wrote with rawness, intensity, and a diabolical zeal for experimentation. His noirs—charged with psychological complexity, gut-wrenching twists, and lurid detail—leaped off...

The noirs of Jim Thompson—charged with psychological complexity, gut-wrenching twists, and lurid detail—leaped off the pulp racks primed, his biographer Robert Polito writes, to take the tops off unsuspecting readers’ heads. Discover the wild life of the “Dimestore Dostoevsky” on our website.

RSVP for the free virtual screening of Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry: https://email.loa.org/h/i/3CEFCEC85E595373

Wendell Berry—novelist, poet, farmer, activist—has been compared to Faulkner for his revelatory writings. LOA and the Berry Center invite you to a free online screening of the evocative documentary Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, streaming Feb. 20–22. RSVP now: email.loa.org/h/i/3CEFCEC8...

The Victorian Society (@vicsocny.bsky.social) welcomes editor Geoff Wisner (@geoffwisner.bsky.social) to speak about, "George Templeton Strong" (published @libraryofamerica.bsky.social) tonight at 6:30pm.

We will be handling sales at the event this evening.

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Henry Adams, the Collapse of Reconstruction, and the Determined Resistance of African Americans According to historian Steven Hahn, “Among the voices of America’s past, few are as arresting and distinctive as that of the freedman Henry Adams.”

The Testimony of Henry Adams “highlights sustained, courageous efforts by Black Southerners to claim political power, defend their rights, and organize collectively in the face of overwhelming repression.” Learn more about the remarkable life of this soldier, faith healer, and political leader.

American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong, with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner, Feb. 18, 2026

On Wednesday, Feb. 18, take a close look at “the greatest American diary of the nineteenth century” with historian Brenda Wineapple and @geoffwisner.bsky.social, editor of the new LOA edition of George Templeton Strong's Civil War Diaries. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/american-m...

“War on the Kitchen Sink”: Michael Paller on the Larger-Than-Life Plays of John Guare - Library of America In the plays of John Guare, the fourth wall dissolves to disclose a thrilling truth: anything can happen here. In a career extending from the 1960s to the present day, this “uncannily prophetic” playw...

Happy birthday to John Guare, the prophetic playwright whose essential works were collected by LOA last year. “For Guare,” explains volume editor Michael Paller, “restoring theater to a place of poetry is the entire purpose of his self-declared ‘War on the Kitchen Sink.’” www.loa.org/news-and-vie...