I just have to write about the Library of America.
It happened quite coincidentally, but I’d been working with them in another professional context — doing search engine optimization — when I began writing Open Your HEart with Reading, and the timing couldn’t have been better.
The Library of America is a nonproft publisher dedicated to publishing, and keeping in print, authoritative editions of America’s best and most significant writing.
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as the “quasi-official national canon” of American literature, The Library of America each year adds new volumes collecting essential novels, stories, poetry, plays, essays, journalism, historical writing, speeches, and more.
A new and comprehensive series called the American Poets Project presents the most significant American poetry, selected and introduced by today’s most distinguished poets and critics, in inexpensive, elegantly designed, and textually authoritative hardcover editions.
These books are gorgeous, folks, and looking through the website is an education in American literature. Take some time to visit the Library of America and subscribe to its newsletter; if you have any interest at all in reading, you won’t be disappointed.
It was through the Library of America that I met many of the authors who today delight and amaze me. I suspect that you will find that experience true for you, also.
– Jeannette Cézanne
http://www.JeannetteCezanne.com
Posted by: reading, reading books, Opening the heart, Learning something new — jcezanne
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