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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language,” wrote Henry James, and though we at LOA would tend to agree, we’d posit one more pairing we think equally enthralling: new books! We’re thrilled to share this preview of titles coming out in the first half of 2024, including a searing collection of firsthand dispatches from Jim Crow America; a keepsake edition of a beloved American poet for his 150th birthday; the introduction of three new writers to the series; two laugh-out-loud paperbacks from a master of “wordplay, witticism, spoofery, and sheer nonsense,” and much more.
Browse the list below for information about contents and publication dates and click here for a full description of each new release.
LIBRARY OF AMERICA SERIES
Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle
Part One, Reconstruction to the Red Summer
Tyina L. Steptoe, editor
Library of America #376 / ISBN 978–1–59853–766–6
February 2024
The Frederick Douglass Collection (two-volume boxed set)
Autobiographies • Speeches & Writings
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and David W. Blight, editors
Library of America #68 and #358 / ISBN 978–1–59853–769–7
February 2024
Jimmy Breslin
Essential Writings
Columns & Other Journalism 1962–2004 • How the Good Guys Finally Won • The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez
Dan Barry, editor
Library of America #377 / ISBN 978–1–59853–768–0
February 2024
Helen Keller
Autobiographies & Other Writings
Kim E. Nielsen, editor
Library of America #378 / ISBN 978–1–59853–772–7
March 2024
Ursula K. Le Guin
Five Novels
The Lathe of Heaven • The Eye of the Heron • The Beginning Place • Searoad • Lavinia
Brian Attebery, editor
Library of America #379 / ISBN 978–1–59853–773–4
April 2024
Walker Percy
The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961–1971
The Moviegoer • The Last Gentleman • Love in the Ruins
Paul Elie, editor
Library of America #380 / ISBN 978–1–59853–775–8
May 2024
Wendell Berry
Port William Novels & Stories: The Postwar Years
The Memory of Old Jack • Remembering • Stories
Jack Shoemaker, editor
Library of America #381 / ISBN 978–1–59853–776–5
July 2024
SPECIAL PUBLICATION
Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart
Jay Parini
ISBN 978–1–59853–770–3
March 2024
PAPERBACKS
S. J. Perelman
Crazy Like a Fox
The Classic Collection
With a new introduction by Joshua Cohen
ISBN 978–1–59853–778–9
April 2024
Cloudland Revisited
A Misspent Youth in Books and Film
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
ISBN 978–1–59853–780–2
April 2024
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language,” wrote Henry James, and though we at LOA would tend to agree, we’d posit one more pairing we think equally enthralling: new books! We’re thrilled to share this preview of titles coming out in the first half of 2024, including a searing collection of firsthand dispatches from Jim Crow America; a keepsake edition of a beloved American poet for his 150th birthday; the introduction of three new writers to the series; two laugh-out-loud paperbacks from a master of “wordplay, witticism, spoofery, and sheer nonsense,” and much more.
Browse the list below for information about contents and publication dates and click here for a full description of each new release.
LIBRARY OF AMERICA SERIES
Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle
Part One, Reconstruction to the Red Summer
Tyina L. Steptoe, editor
Library of America #376 / ISBN 978–1–59853–766–6
February 2024
The Frederick Douglass Collection (two-volume boxed set)
Autobiographies • Speeches & Writings
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and David W. Blight, editors
Library of America #68 and #358 / ISBN 978–1–59853–769–7
February 2024
Jimmy Breslin
Essential Writings
Columns & Other Journalism 1962–2004 • How the Good Guys Finally Won • The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez
Dan Barry, editor
Library of America #377 / ISBN 978–1–59853–768–0
February 2024
Helen Keller
Autobiographies & Other Writings
Kim E. Nielsen, editor
Library of America #378 / ISBN 978–1–59853–772–7
March 2024
Ursula K. Le Guin
Five Novels
The Lathe of Heaven • The Eye of the Heron • The Beginning Place • Searoad • Lavinia
Brian Attebery, editor
Library of America #379 / ISBN 978–1–59853–773–4
April 2024
Walker Percy
The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961–1971
The Moviegoer • The Last Gentleman • Love in the Ruins
Paul Elie, editor
Library of America #380 / ISBN 978–1–59853–775–8
May 2024
Wendell Berry
Port William Novels & Stories: The Postwar Years
The Memory of Old Jack • Remembering • Stories
Jack Shoemaker, editor
Library of America #381 / ISBN 978–1–59853–776–5
July 2024
SPECIAL PUBLICATION
Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart
Jay Parini
ISBN 978–1–59853–770–3
March 2024
PAPERBACKS
S. J. Perelman
Crazy Like a Fox
The Classic Collection
With a new introduction by Joshua Cohen
ISBN 978–1–59853–778–9
April 2024
Cloudland Revisited
A Misspent Youth in Books and Film
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
ISBN 978–1–59853–780–2
April 2024
3Stevil2001
Nice lineup for the Le Guin, exactly what I would have hoped for. I've actually never read any of her non-series novels, so I am happy for the incentive to do so.