Andy Borowitz’s marketing copy for The Library of America: “Does being funny get you girls?”
Andy Borowitz on the challenge of selecting the 50 funniest American writers
Forthcoming from Library of America: Fall 2018
The Top 10 Story of the Week selections of 2018
John O’Hara, “Joey on the Cake Line”
Leslie Perri, “Space Episode”
Mindy Aloff: “Most writers . . . are fascinated by dancing”
James Fenimore Cooper reveals “deeply hidden truths” about the American Revolution
Coming attractions: A little Moonlight shines on Beale Street
John Updike, Pennsylvania, and “the matter of America”
Ruthanna Boris, “I Remember Balanchine”
Madeleine L’Engle on A Wrinkle in Time: “It’s for people”
Mark Twain, “Is He Living or Is He Dead?”
Henry Ward Beecher, “Apple-Pie”
The War Before the War: Andrew Delbanco on fugitive slaves and the fragility of the American Republic
Watch: Leonard S. Marcus on his first meeting with a “totally engaged” Madeleine L’Engle
