Book Reviews! The good, the bad, the crap from the first three months of my reading adventures this year.
#book #review #reading #library #LibraryOfAmerica #libraries #books #BookLovers #readingcommunity
https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/book-reviews-quarter-1-of-2025/
#Free #OnlineEvent: The Greatness of #SylviaPlath
Sarah Ruden joins #LibraryOfAmerica LIVE for a conversation inspired by her book I Am the Arrow: The Life & Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems, published this month by Library of America, with Pulitzer-winning poet Diane Seuss and pre-eminent Plath scholars Heather Clark and Amanda Golden. #Poetry #Literature #Plath #Books #Bookstodon
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-greatness-of-sylvia-plath-registration-1310005193799
today in 1892 #waltwhitman died.
somewhat later, i visited his house in new jersey and wrote this:
https://instate.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/328-mickle-street-camden-new-jersey/
#poetry #americanliterature #newjersey #19thcentury #libraryofamerica #camden
Free #OnlineEvent from #LibraryOfAmerica: What is #Totalitarianism? Understanding #HannahArendt Now
Registration is required, but there is no fee.
In her masterpiece, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt linked the horrors of Nazism and Stalinism, seeing them as twin manifestations of a terrifying new political system that sought absolute control over all aspects of life. How does this book, which probed the psychology and pathology of the twentieth century, take on new relevance in today’s political landscape?
#FreeEvent #Resist
The metadata for this is a bit odd, but this is the #LibraryOfAmerica volume of Woolson. It is not a complete collection (which is interesting) but rather collected stories, with a few missing from each of the volumes published during her lifetime and immediately after her death.
Have not read any Woolson previously, and excited by her apparent interest (implicit or explicit) in regionality. Not a whole lot of fiction writers from this period were dwelling on the upper #Midwest!
(comment on Constance Fenimore Woolson)
Free #OnlineEvent sponsored by #LibraryOfAmerica:
The Revolutionary Writings of #BlackAmericans with James G. Basker and Annette Gordon-Reed.
The story told and retold about America’s founding often excludes the Black communities that existed during the Revolution and the early republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era, a new volume from Library of America, changes that.
#USHistory #BlackHistory #RevolutionaryHistory #Histodons #Bookstodon
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-revolutionary-writings-of-black-americans-registration-805970388127
Free #OnlineEvent from #LibraryOfAmerica (July 19): The Enduring Genius of #RayBradbury
In #TheMartianChronicles, #TheIllustratedMan, #Fahrenheit451, and other visionary works melding #ScienceFiction, #horror, #fantasy, and high #literature, Ray Bradbury electrified readers and inspired generations of genre-bending younger writers. Acclaimed authors #ConnieWillis and #KellyLink join LOA Bradbury editor #JonathanREller and #SF expert #GaryKWolfe for a conversation about this American original’s towering legacy.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-enduring-genius-of-ray-bradbury-registration-667627591097
In my latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast, I discuss #LibraryOfAmerica's recent "Back to #TheFutureIsFemale" event and some of the works of #ScienceFiction related to it.
#SFF #WomensSF #FeministSF #Feminism #LisaYaszek #PamelaSargent #ShereeReneeThomas #ChelseaQuinnYarbro #Books #Bookstodon
http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2023/06/14/starshipsofa-714-william-meikle/
The Library of America's Story of the Week is, of course, a Mother's Day tale from James Thurber: Lavender with a Difference.
#LibraryOfAmerica #MothersDay #JamesThurber
https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2015/05/lavender-with-difference.html
Peter West Carey
Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖
Martin Bihl
Trevor Burrows
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Michael Frasca