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Professor Frake [by Molly Arden]

Professor Frake Is a hard-ass; takes pride in the low grades he gives; publishes essays; gives offense; carries the lamp of a seeker of truth in a benighted age of compulsory bullshit; but, hell, this guy’s a fake, and it’s... Read more

Brueghel's Icarus and Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts" [by David Lehman]

on The Best American Poetry

Landscape With the Fall of Icarus’ (c. 1560s), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder—the focus of Auden’s final stanza. ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM By David Lehman Published in The Wall Street Journal under the heading “Art’s Lessons, Filtered... Read more

"Virginity" [by Amy Gerstler]

on The Best American Poetry

Virginity Lying down on the rug with someone and getting dust bunnies in your hair. The eloquence of long pauses. Passing notes rather than speaking. A basement fogged with pot smoke. Trying to read another body via its breathing. The... Read more

The December LibraryReads List is Here!

on Library Love Fest

See our full announcement of all HarperCollins titles that made the list and find links to egalleys here. Thank you for voting! -Lainey Read more

Letter from London Ten Years On [by David Lehman]

on The Best American Poetry

It was spring in November, raining but once in the course of five days and that a mild midnight sprinkle, and one day the temperature climbed almost to the sixties, and you needed only a scarf, a cap, and a... Read more

Music Playlist for The Wolf Legacy

on Catherine GV

Hello, dear folks! I went forward and created a Spotify playlist for my serialized story The Wolf Legacy so I could share my feelings and mood when writing it with you. Read more

November 9: Live via Zoom Tracy K. Smith and David Lehman present The Best American Poetry 2021

on The Best American Poetry

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Unusual German WWI Book Reviews, 1936

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Overall Post 5142 Earlier today I catalogued a small tri-folding World War I-related leaflet printed in 1936 and emblazoned Krieg!!! The cover is striking, partly because in addition to the graphics it also shows something being... Read more

"Sportswriter" [by Dean Smith]

on The Best American Poetry

"Sportswriter" Hartzell’s cartoon bird on the front page of the Sun taught me to read— “Birds edge Bosox” or “Orioles drub Twins.” My team routed, pummeled, crushed, and bombed opponents— just like the B-52s in the headlines. Years later, in... Read more

"My November Guest' [by Robert Frost]

on The Best American Poetry

My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walked the sodden pasture lane. Her pleasure will not let me stay.... Read more

The Library Love Fest Podcast has over 50K listens!

on Library Love Fest

The Library Love Fest Podcast hit a milestone this week—we have over 50,000 listens! We started this podcast as a way to dive deeper into our books in a digestible audio format that you could listen to while on the... Read more

LLF Staff Suggestions for the January LibraryReads List

on Library Love Fest

Hello, librarians! We are back for another round of LibraryReads suggestions for the January LibraryReads list. Reminder: votes for the January LibraryReads List are due December 1st. Happy reading! -The LLF Team (Virginia, Lainey, and Essie) *** Notes on an... Read more

In Memoriam

on Leigh Kramer

My grandfather died in May 2019. I typically write an essay after each major loss as part of my mourning. But I was not able to keep this practice when he died. Not until now. Writing has been difficult the... Read more

John Updike in 2004: New Novel Seethes With Sex [by David Lehman]

on The Best American Poetry

e 2004‑11‑01 00:06 (New York) Books: Updike's Novel Seethes With Sex; Philosophy Made Simple (Review. David Lehman is a critic for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.) By David Lehman. Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) ‑‑ No one is better... Read more

Making their grand debut...

on Library Love Fest

Check out these forthcoming debut novels that were included in our recent Library Journal and Booklist ads! Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (on sale 12/7/21): An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop... Read more

Sonnet [by Alexander Lazarus Wolff]

on The Best American Poetry

The sun hangs among tatters of clouds; amber light slides through the interwoven boughs of the tree beside my window. The day decays, and a darkness pours into the room like a pool of black liqueur. Who holds me in... Read more

The Lehman Trilogy [by David Lehman]

on The Best American Poetry

Stacey and I saw "The Lehman Trilogy," the much-heralded three-part, three-actor play, and we didn't have to pay the $2,000 per ticket that scalpers were demanding. Peter Marks of the Washington Post calls it "a sublime 3½-hour dash through the... Read more

On Jacques Barzun 1907-2012 [by Jamie Katz]

on The Best American Poetry

Nine years ago, on October 26, 2012, we received a few comments in response to David's post about Jacques Barzun, the great Columbia professor, who once graced the cover of Time magazine. Jacques died on October 25th at the age... Read more

My New Story "The Wolf Legacy" Published on Tapas! FREE

on Catherine GV

Would you like to read a darker, feminist, fantasy retelling of Little Red Riding Hood? I've got just the right story for you! The Wolf Legacy published every Monday on Tapas.io by yours truly! ;) Want to know more? Scroll down this page, check the cover and read the blurb! Read more

The Last Word on Napoleon [by David Lehman]

on The Best American Poetry

The last word on Napoleon has not been written. More than 600,000 books have been published about the military genius who crowned himself emperor of France in 1804 and united the rest of Europe in fear. Does the world really... Read more

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