Carson McCullers, “Wunderkind”
In London, LOA founding trustee receives major award for a lifetime of scholarship
Todd Tietchen: “It took a while for literary culture to catch up with what Kerouac had accomplished”
Suzanne Vega talks about Carson McCullers
Terror, suspense, and the power of suggestion in The Haunting
Watch: Yusef Komunyakaa on a fellow poet and soldier’s “rendezvous with death”
Mark Twain, “My First Lie and How I Got Out of It”
Julian Hawthorne, “Absolute Evil”
Listen: An Albert Murray playlist for jumping, kicking, swinging, or stomping the blues
The Centurions: Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
Improvisation on a noir theme: The jazz of François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player
From Billie Holiday to Billy Preston, James Baldwin: Later Novels inspires a Spotify playlist
Caroline W. Healey Dall, “A Sketch from Maryland Life”
Classic Hollywood Little Women captures the story’s appeal for all time
Nathanael West, “Western Union Boy”
Nathanael West as online muse
