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Harold Bloom and the American Canon from Emerson to Toni Morrison

LOA Live: A Conversation with David Mikics

JUNE 16, 2020 — Literary scholar David Mikics, editor of the Library of America volume Harold Bloom: The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon, joins LOA’s John Kulka for an intimate conversation about how he wove several decades of Harold Bloom’s writing—much of it hard to find and long unavailable—into a compelling portrait of American literary genius. LOA President and Publisher Max Rudin introduces the Zoom conversation.

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