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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[“The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps in France,” Henry James]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[From Henry James: Collected Travel Writings: The Continent An American ambulance in the commune of Sacy, south of Reims, France, c. 1914–17, by Parisian photographer J. Patras (about whom little is known). Courtesy University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. In late 1914, as the war raged in Europe, Henry James spent much of his time providing support [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Registrations Open | Reading America: Acclaimed Authors on Great Writing That Resonates Today]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/registrations-open-reading-america-eight-acclaimed-authors-on-classics-to-read-now/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12187</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Starting this June, Library of America presents an eight-part series of online classes featuring leading contemporary authors on the LOA writers that resonate deeply with them and have something vital to tell us at this moment. Each session pairs an eminent novelist, historian, or critic with works and writers they find especially resonant: Annette Gordon-Reed [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12192</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE Tuesday, April 7—Confronting disenfranchisement, legal segregation, and terrorist violence in the aftermath of the Civil War, Black Americans challenged white supremacy in word and deed in a prolonged struggle to create a better, more just nation. Join Tyina L. Steptoe, editor of the new two-volume LOA edition of writings from the Jim Crow [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Remembering Paul B. Royster: 1953–2026]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12174</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Library of America mourns the passing last week of Paul B. Royster of Lincoln, Nebraska. Paul began his long career in scholarly publishing with Library of America as an assistant editor, 1980–82, as production manager, 1982–87, and as chief financial officer and director of production, 1987–93. His knowledge, dedication, and enthusiasm made an immeasurable contribution [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Handsome, Angry, &#038; Funny as Hell: Geoff Wisner on George Templeton Strong, Civil War Diarist Extraordinaire]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/handsome-angry-funny-as-hell-geoff-wisner-on-george-templeton-strong-civil-war-diarist-extraordinaire/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12153</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Opinionated, acerbic, cranky, and often hilarious, George Templeton Strong is perhaps the greatest American diarist of the nineteenth century. A patrician lawyer and man about Manhattan, Strong penned millions of words about daily life in New York City between 1835 and 1875, encompassing everything from the smallest household matters to events of national importance: slavery, [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Breslin on the Scene”: Raj Tawney on the Influence of Jimmy Breslin, Peerless Columnist and Fearless Truth-teller]]></title>
                <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/breslin-on-the-scene-raj-tawney-on-the-influence-of-jimmy-breslin-peerless-columnist-and-fearless-truth-teller/</link>
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                <description><![CDATA[by Raj Tawney Forty years ago, in 1986, newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary on the strength of “columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens.” Highlights from that year’s Daily News pieces submitted for the award included Breslin’s groundbreaking profile of David Camacho, a young man with AIDS whose poignant and humanizing [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“The Evacuation of Boston,” John Bowater]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12141</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence 1775–1783 “Lord Howe Evacuating Boston,” c. 1861. Hand-colored print by British printmaker John Godfrey (1817–1889) after a watercolor (now lost) by British artist Michael Angelo Wageman (c.1820–1898). Image: American Revolution Institute. The evacuation of Boston by British troops occurred 250 years ago, on March 17, [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the Revolution?]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12127</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE March 12—Inaugurating a series of programs to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, authors and scholars Michael Gorra, Wendy S. Walters, and Brenda Wineapple discuss three classic short stories, each written within fifty years of the American Revolution, that imaginatively explore the meaning of that founding moment: Washington Irving’s “Rip [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[A Look Inside &lt;em&gt;Look &#038; See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry&lt;/em&gt; with Laura Dunn and Mary Berry]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/a-look-inside-look-see-a-portrait-of-wendell-berry-with-laura-dunn-and-mary-berry/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12082</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[During the weekend of February 20–22, Library of America and The Berry Center were pleased to present a limited-time virtual screening of Laura Dunn’s acclaimed documentary Look &amp; See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry. More than five thousand viewers tuned in for this intimate look at the world and philosophy of one of our greatest [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Forthcoming: Fall 2026]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/forthcoming-fall-2026/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12058</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[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 blink-and-you’ll-miss-it micro-fiction. Whether these works can be read in a single sitting or serve as an excuse to return to the same faraway world night [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12044</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE Wednesday, February 18—Called “the greatest American diary of the nineteenth century,” the journal of the patrician New York City lawyer George Templeton Strong stands as a remarkable documentary record of the Civil War and a captivating literary accomplishment in its own right. Unfolding like an epic historical novel, Strong’s precise and colorful account [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Dime Stores &#038; Bus Stations: Robert Polito on the Savage Art of Jim Thompson]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/dime-stores-bus-stations-robert-polito-on-the-savage-art-of-jim-thompson/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12013</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[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 pulp racks primed, his biographer Robert Polito writes, to take the tops off unsuspecting readers’ heads. Critically and commercially neglected in his lifetime, Thompson built a posthumous cult [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Mars for Me”: John O’Hara, Champion of the Short Story]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/mars-for-me-john-ohara-champion-of-the-short-story/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12030</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[We’ve been thinking a lot at LOA about the remarkable rise of the American short story. But what about its evolution in the twentieth century? One of the first places to look is the fiction of John O’Hara, the novelist and New Yorker staple (he published nearly 230 stories with the magazine, a record) who [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday,” John Guare]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/something-ill-tell-you-tuesday-john-guare/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12009</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From John Guare: Plays Entrance of Caffe Cino, 31 Cornelia Street, in the West Village of Manhattan, 1965. Photo by James D. Gossage. The poster advertises Lanford Wilson’s short play This Is the Rill Speaking. Guare’s first production there, A Day for Surprises, was staged in August 1965; Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday and The [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Register Now: How to Read an American Poem, an online course with Edward Hirsch]]></title>
                <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/register-now-how-to-read-an-american-poem-an-online-course-with-edward-hirsch/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=11995</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Why read poems? What can the greatest American poets tell us about the things that matter most? Edward Hirsch, the celebrated author of The Heart of American Poetry and How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry, returns for a new Library of America course exploring the transformative language, ideas, and emotions [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“On His Hands,” John O’Hara]]></title>
                <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/on-his-hands-john-ohara/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=11999</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From John O’Hara: Stories Couple Sitting at Opposite Ends of Bench in Moonlight, 1923, oil on board by American illustrator Dean Cornwell (1892–1960). Courtesy Illustration Art. In 1925, when John O’Hara was working at the Pottsville Journal (a job from which he was fired twice), he dreamed of moving to New York City and getting [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“A National Art Form”: John Stauffer on Rediscovering the 19th-Century American Short Story, from Poe to Wharton]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/a-national-art-form-john-stauffer-on-rediscovering-the-19th-century-american-short-story-from-poe-to-wharton/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=11896</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From the political and economic tumult of the nineteenth century, the American short story emerged as a distinct and powerful national art form. Bolstered by early trailblazers such as Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, and many others, the genre proliferated in magazines and gift books that dominated the era’s literary [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“Rather Ashes than Dust”: Literary Rebel Jack London at 150]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/rather-ashes-than-dust-literary-rebel-jack-london-at-150/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=11877</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Jack London—“illegitimate, handsome, wildly romantic, casting himself as the rebel and revolutionary” (as the Wall Street Journal described him)—was born 150 years ago, on January 12, 1876. An “instinctive artist of the highest order,” according to H. L. Mencken, London exemplified the literary life on two fronts: not only was he a celebrity author, a [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[2024–2025 Library of America Honor Roll]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/2024-2025-library-of-america-honor-roll/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12085</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[In 1982 an audacious venture was launched to honor and preserve America’s literary heritage and keep it a vital part of the culture. Forty-four years and thirteen million books later, Library of America has been called “the most important book-publishing project in the nation’s history” (Newsweek), the “de facto canon of American literature” (The New [&hellip;]]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[“The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons,” Eleanor Arnason]]></title>
                <pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=11860</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women Idea House II, 1947: kitchen, breakfast bar, and dining area. Located in Minneapolis on the grounds of the Walker Art Center, Eleanor Arnason lived in this &#8220;house of the future&#8221; with her parents and brother for over a decade. (Hennepin County Library via [&hellip;]]]></description>
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