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September 14, 2022
LOA LIVE: Online programs inspired by Library of America publications
Join us for online presentations featuring acclaimed literary critics, historians, and other scholars.
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Please note: A complete listing of LOA’s Lift Every Voice events centered on African American poetry can be found at africanamericanpoetry.org .
UPCOMING EVENTS
Lying and Politics: The Relevance of Hannah Arendt Additional details and registration information to come. PAST EVENTS
A Celebration of Oscar Hijuelos
A Tribute to Gary Snyder
Fiddler on the Roof on Stage and Screen
The Heart of American Poetry, with Edward Hirsch
Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen
Our Town for Our Time
World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
Filming Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred , with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Vonnegut at 100, with Robert Weide
2021
American Christmas Stories
Rediscovering Rachel Carson
Burning Boy: Paul Auster on the Extraordinary Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Virginia Hamilton and the Transformation of American Children’s Literature
The Light in the Piazza: From Page to Stage
On Extended Wings: American Birds and American Writing
Joan Didion: The Art of Storytelling
E. O. Wilson: An Earth Day Tribute
Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground
The Great American Western on Page and Screen
Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution and Still Can
Reading James Baldwin Now: Gabrielle Bellot on If Beale Street Could Talk
Poet of the People: The Greatness of Langston Hughes
American Democracy: The Task Before Us
2020
Peanuts at 70
The Genius of Hemingway: Robert W. Trogdon, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein
The Nineteenth Amendment Turns 100: A New Look at Women’s Suffrage
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
The Paranoid Style in American Politics: Hofstadter in the Time of Trump
Reading James Baldwin Now: Eddie Glaude Jr., on “The White Man’s Guilt”
Abraham Lincoln and the Crisis of Presidential Succession, with Ted Widmer
It’s a New World, Golde: Classic American Musicals in the 21st Century
The Fate of the Earth: Jonathan Schell and His Legacy
Who Tells Your Story: Joanne B. Freeman on Hamilton and History
Reading James Baldwin Now: Darryl Pinckney on No Name in the Street
Reading James Baldwin Now: Farah Jasmine Griffin on “Sonny’s Blues”
Harold Bloom and the American Canon, with David Mikics
Andrew J. Bacevich and Sean Wilentz: What Is American Conservatism?
