LOA Availability dates on Amazon 2

Cut and pasted the last one put up by Podras -- tip o the hat -- so we can now check out upcoming
releases without having to scroll aaalllll the way down. :)

This list has been updated to reflect the latest announcement from the Library of America of their Forthcoming Spring 2021 releases.

Main Series Volumes:

07/07/2020-----American Women’s Suffrage: Voices from the 200-Year Struggle for the Vote
09/01/2020-----The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s & 50s
09/15/2020-----African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
09/22/2020-----Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writing
10/06/2020-----Ursula K. LeGuin: Annals of the Western Shore
10/20/2020-----Shirley Jackson: Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s
11/03/2020-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English-Indian Encounter from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
01/19/2021-----Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories
02/02/2021-----John Updike: Novels 1978 - 1984
03/09/2021-----Edward O. Wilson: Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist
Apr. 2021-----Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s
Apr. 2021-----Jean Stafford: Complete Stories & Other Writings
May 2021-----Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories

Boxed Sets:

10/20/2020-----The Shirley Jackson Collection (2-vols.)

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications:

10/06/2020-----American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Crucial Questions
10/27/2020-----The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters
01/26/2021-----Richard Wright: The Man Who Lived Underground
02/16/2021-----Women's Liberation! Femionist Writings That Inspired a Revolution, and Still Can

>1 Truett: Thanks for the assist. I was going to post an update soon anyway.

The Women's Suffrage volume has been dropped off the list because it is now in general release. The release dates of the Plymouth Colony and Richard Wright volumes has changed, and the release date is now available for the Jean Stafford volume.

The slipcased Hemingway, LeGuin, and Jackson volumes are available for ordering by LOA subscribers, but their actual ship dates are likely a little ways off yet.

Main Series Volumes:

09/01/2020-----The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s & 50s
09/15/2020-----African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
09/22/2020-----Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writing
10/06/2020-----Ursula K. LeGuin: Annals of the Western Shore
10/20/2020-----Shirley Jackson: Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s
01/19/2021-----Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories
02/02/2021-----John Updike: Novels 1978 - 1984
03/09/2021-----Edward O. Wilson: Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist
04/06/2021-----Jean Stafford: Complete Stories & Other Writings
04/27/2021-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English-Indian Encounter from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
Apr. 2021-----Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s
May 2021-----Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories

Boxed Sets:

10/20/2020-----The Shirley Jackson Collection (2-vols.)

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications:

10/06/2020-----American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Crucial Questions
10/27/2020-----The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters
02/16/2021-----Women's Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution, and Still Can
04/26/2021-----Richard Wright: The Man Who Lived Underground

Didion (4/20) and Barthelme (5/4) now available for pre-order On Amazon

>3 Mareino: Thanks for the information.

LOA's The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s & 50s is in general release as of today, so it is off the list. (It's a great read, by the way.) Besides the general release dates of the Didion and Barthelme volumes now being revealed, it is noted that the general release date of the African American Poetry volume has changed. This list is now complete assuming nothing else changes until LOA announces a new batch of releases.

The subscriber's (i.e. slipcased) edition of LeGuin's Annals of the Western Shore was shipped yesterday. Appearances are that Hemingway is very nearly out the door, too, with D'J Pancake following close on their heals.

Main Series Volumes:

09/22/2020-----Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writing
10/06/2020-----Ursula K. LeGuin: Annals of the Western Shore
10/13/2020-----African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
10/20/2020-----Shirley Jackson: Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s
01/19/2021-----Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories
02/02/2021-----John Updike: Novels 1978 - 1984
03/09/2021-----Edward O. Wilson: Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist
04/06/2021-----Jean Stafford: Complete Stories & Other Writings
04/20/2021-----Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s
04/27/2021-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
05/04/2021-----Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories

Boxed Sets:

10/20/2020-----The Shirley Jackson Collection (2-vols.)

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications:

10/06/2020-----American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Crucial Questions
10/27/2020-----The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters
02/16/2021-----Women's Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution, and Still Can
04/26/2021-----Richard Wright: The Man Who Lived Underground

PODRAS: Time to do your thing!

Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (LOA #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories (Library of America) Hardcover – June 1, 2021, is now listed on Amazon. (And I got a peek at the slipcase for the Shirley Jackson collection -- wow! Wish I had had the patience to wait, so I could have that beautiful slipcase -- my copy of the second Jackson volume is winging it's way to me from England, Book Depository).

>5 Truett: Thanks for the information. That something is listed in Amazon is pretty strong evidence that there will actually be a product as advertised, but I've had personal experience on a couple of occasions with products listed on Amazon that didn't exist. My practice here is to stick with publications formally announced by LOA.

Amazon has changed date of next Updike volume to 3/2/21

O Henry volume on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Henry-Stories-Library-America/dp/1598536907/ref=sr_1_2?dc...

Podras: Yyyyeah. Guess I must've misunderstood the meaning of the tread title: "LOA Availability Dates on Amazon".

No sweat. Apparently I misunderstand a lot of things. (Like, f'rinstance, Harold "Poseur" Bloom, and his belief that Shirley Jackson's writing had no place in the "Western Canon"). So it goes.

How about those Yankees! ;) (When all else fails, small talk and sports).

Perelman volume also on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/S-J-Perelman-Writings-LOA-ebook/dp/B08N6RXCFW/ref=sr_1_1?...

Initially I confused Perelman with Sandy Pearlman, but the LOA volume looks worth picking up. Plan to add to my subscription list.

Lt this rate, LOA's next announcement of upcoming volumes may be anticlimactic.

Amazon has again changed the date on the next Updike volume. It is now 3/30.
I assume that all the dates for 2021 volumes are tentative. As is everything else...

Ray Bradbury (!!!) volume on amazon (containing The Martian Chronicles / Fahrenheit 451 / Dandelion Wine / Something Wicked This Way Comes)

https://www.amazon.com/Ray-Bradbury-Chronicles-Fahrenheit-Dandelion/dp/159853700...

Very exciting if true!!!

That is great news. I wonder what else of Bradbury's LOA plans to publish.

That also makes four LOA main series volumes that Amazon is taking orders for that LOA hasn't yet formally announced. At this rate, there won't be much new about the next new volume announcement. David, is the date for the next set of new releases coming soon?

and here we have #348 on amazon : "Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels (LOA #348): Zeely / The House of Dies Drear / The Planet of Junior Brown / M.C. Higgins, the Great / Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush"

https://www.amazon.com/Virginia-Hamilton-Higgins-Whispers-Brother/dp/1598537016/...

I have not heard of Hamilton before but the book certainly sounds interesting!

>16 vharty: wow a lot of good choices for 2021!

I hadn't heard of Virginia Hamilton either and looked her up. She writes for young people and pretty successfully, too. I've really enjoyed reading some of LOA's other authors for young people and am curious to see what she is like.

Hello all and Happy New Year!
I am a new Library of America subscriber, and I am really "hooked"... I don't know why it took me so many years to try LOA and to appreciate what a pleasure it is to read their books!

What I do not understand in this thread, and maybe you can explain it to me, is the advantage of purchasing the LOA books on amazon that does not really need our help or our money rather than purchasing the books directly from the publisher that does need our support and is a non profit organization. This is not a political question. I just seem to be missing a point somewhere, probably in some earlier discussions.

From my point of view, the more we buy directly from LOA, the better off this important organization will be. Am I wrong? Are there some books on Amazon that cannot be ordered directly from the publisher?

All the very best wishes to everyone and hopes for a calm successful year!

>19 booksforreading:

I don't pretend to have the "complete" answer, but here are my thoughts.

REASONS TO ORDER FROM AMAZON
* Bundle purchases with other Amazon orders (Prime membership, etc)
* Help raise awareness of LOA titles in Amazon marketplace

REASONS TO ORDER FROM LOA
* Receive the slipcase (can also get jacket, instead or in addition to slipcase)
* Support LOA's mission with subscription

Other preferences can be met by purchasing at either place. For example, you can order any title immediately upon it being available (and not wait for LOA to ship it when it comes up in your subscription) from LOA, or from Amazon. You can get any LOA title with the dust jacket from either, too.

Generally I'm aligned with your POV and prefer to order directly from LOA. But I can't agree that the more we purchase direct, the better for LOA. Amazon is an important advertising channel for books, so it could be argued purchases that route help LOA more than direct purchases. I don't like that, but I think it's true.

>20 elenchus:
Thank you very much for your thoughtful answer!
So, now I understand that when we get excited about this or that LOA book becoming available on Amazon, we are glad that people who do not know about Library of America might have more chances to come across these books when shopping on Amazon and will be educated about LOA's existence. This will in turn help the publisher. Yes, it makes sense.

What I could not understand earlier is why it is very exiting for us, already existing LOA subscribers, to purchase books on Amazon rather than directly from the publisher. I was not sure how it would raise awareness of LOA on Amazon, since we are already aware of it. We also do not have to wait for our subscription book to be shipped to us before acquiring other books that we want - I have unfortunately already spent more money on the Library of America books since my subscription than I care to admit. :)
Thank you again!

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I almost always buy directly from the LOA. I follow this thread because sometimes volumes pop up as available on Amazon before the LOA has announced them. Basically, sometimes this thread gives a little heads up about an upcoming, but yet to be announced volume.

>22 Dr_Flanders:
Thank you! I now understand.

Elenchus: SECOND reason for ordering from Amazon, or Book Depository: Because LOA _still_ hasn't worked out a system to ship regularly (and...efficiently?) to "International" customers (even when a person living in Canada Canada! is part of that crowd).

I live in Australia, now. I buy the LOA books from Book Depository, but...I STILL purchase books from a few small press publishers. And they ALWAYS use USPS, first class, or otherwise. A system -- the US post office -- available to LOA. :). LOA had problems shipping to international customers (So I'm not sure why LOA is still having problems shipping internationally before the pandemic. While I understand the slowdown in shipping time, I'm not sure why they would have problems shipping now, or before.

Either way, the ONLY reason I don't order directly from LOA is...LOA.

John Williams - Novelist
https://www.amazon.com/John-Williams-Collected-Butchers-Crossing/dp/1598537024/r...

>25 A_B:

Well spotted, that is terrific news!

Well, that's now 6 volumes for summer and fall 2021 that have not yet been announced by LOA:

Spencer (344) – June 2021
Henry, O. (345) – August 2021
Perelman (346) – August 2021
Bradbury (347) – September 2021
Hamilton, Virginia (348) – September 2021
Williams, John (349) – October 2021.

I wonder if there will be anything left to surprise us when the next forthcoming volumes news item is released (which should be soon), other than perhaps one or more special publications.

That is awesome! Now please ship to Canada lol

This update includes the recent announcement of upcoming LOA titles for the summer and fall 2021 and, as usual, drops titles that have become generally available. There are a couple of date changes from previous updates, too.

This update has added a paperback section. I haven't been following LOA's paperbacks before this because most if not all of them have been extractions from LOA main series volumes, and I don't recall their being part of these bi-yearly announcements before. (With my memory these days, I wouldn't swear to that.) The ones included in the latest announcement have not been published by LOA before this, so their inclusion seemed appropriate.

The publication of Molière's works in a two-volume special edition is a milestone event for LOA. Molière isn't the first non-American author to be published by LOA (de Tocqueville's Democracy in America was in the main series for good reason), but he is the first to have no particular connection to American literature. The rationale if any is needed is that the translator, Richard Wilber, is American, and his translation seems to be widely admired. May there be more.

Main Series Volumes:

03/23/2021-----Edward O. Wilson: Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist
03/30/2021-----John Updike: Novels 1978 - 1984
04/06/2021-----Jean Stafford: Complete Stories & Other Writings
04/20/2021-----Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s
04/27/2021-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
05/04/2021-----Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories
06/01/2021-----Elizabeth Spencer: The Voice at the Back Door, The Light in the Piazza, Knights and Dragons, Stories
06/29/2021-----O’Henry: 101 Stories
08/10/2021-----S. J. Perelman: Selected Writings
09/07/2021-----Ray Bradbury: Novels & Story Cycles
09/14/2021-----Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels
10/05/2021-----John Williams: Collected Novels
10/12/2021-----W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
Nov. 2021-----World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
Nov. 2021-----Rachel Carson: The Ocean Trilogy

Boxed Sets:

Nov. 2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications:

02/16/2021-----Women's Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution, and Still Can
04/26/2021-----Richard Wright: The Man Who Lived Underground
10/19/2021-----American Christmas Stories
Nov. 2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 1
Nov. 2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 2

Paperbacks:

06/01/2021-----Mary Jane Ward: The Snake Pit
06/01/2021-----Delores Hitchens: Sleep with Strangers
06/01/2021-----Delores Hitchens: Sleep with Slander

Amazon has now provided general availability dates for all of LOA's current crop of titles announced to date. There have been some date changes, too, since the last update. As usual, titles that have made it into general release have been dropped from the list. All of this is reflected below.

The Wilson, Stafford, Didion, and Spencer main-series titles are available for ordering on LOA's members and subscribers web site. The Stafford and Didion volumes are already shipping. Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground and Mary Jane Ward's The Snake Pit are also available for ordering.

Main Series Volumes

03/23/2021-----Edward O. Wilson: Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist
04/13/2021-----John Updike: Novels 1978 - 1984
04/06/2021-----Jean Stafford: Complete Stories & Other Writings
04/20/2021-----Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s
05/25/2021-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
05/04/2021----- Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories
06/01/2021----- Elizabeth Spencer: The Voice at the Back Door, The Light in the Piazza, Knights and Dragons, Stories
06/29/2021-----O’Henry: 101 Stories
08/10/2021-----S. J. Perelman: Selected Writings
09/07/2021-----Ray Bradbury: Novels & Story Cycles
09/14/2021-----Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels
10/05/2021-----John Williams: Collected Novels
10/12/2021-----W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
11/02/2021-----World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
11/16/2021-----Rachel Carson: The Ocean Trilogy

Boxed Sets

11/09/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications

04/20/2021-----Richard Wright: The Man Who Lived Underground
10/19/2021-----American Christmas Stories
11/09/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 1
11/09/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 2

Paperbacks

06/01/2021-----Mary Jane Ward: The Snake Pit
07/06/2021-----Delores Hitchens: Sleep with Strangers
07/06/2021-----Delores Hitchens: Sleep with Slander

>30 Podras.: thank you

There have some date changes since the last update above. The Plymouth Colony volume is now scheduled for release on Sept. 28. That is the biggest change. The Donald Barthelme volume is now set for June 16, and the WWII Memoirs: Pacific Theater volume has been pulled up to Oct. 26.

Currently available for ordering by members and subscribers on the LOA site are the Updike, Stafford, Willson, Wright, Ward, Didion, Barthelme, Spencer, and O'Henry volumes.

On amazon now: LOA #353, Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26." https://www.amazon.com/F-Scott-Fitzgerald-Writings-1920-26/dp/1598537148/ref=sr_...

Great Gatsby!

"Great Gatsby!" = Great Fitzgerald!!!.

It looks like the leaking has begun for the next batch of LOA releases. It'll probably be a few months yet before the official announcement comes.

Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories (LOA 343) was pushed back (found out a day or so ago when Amazon changed the pub date). It now publishes June 15th.

I wonder if that will affect other publication dates, or if this is a result of that binding issue (more complicated than that) which DCloyceSmith explained.

Here is the current list of upcoming volumes with their current availability dates.

Main Series Volumes

06/01/2021----- Elizabeth Spencer: The Voice at the Back Door, The Light in the Piazza, Knights and Dragons, Stories
06/16/2021----- Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories
06/29/2021-----O’Henry: 101 Stories
08/10/2021-----S. J. Perelman: Selected Writings
09/07/2021-----Ray Bradbury: Novels & Story Cycles
09/14/2021-----Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels
09/28/2021-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
10/05/2021-----John Williams: Collected Novels
10/12/2021-----W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
10/26/2021-----World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
11/16/2021-----Rachel Carson: The Ocean Trilogy

Boxed Sets

11/09/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications

10/19/2021-----American Christmas Stories
11/09/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 1
11/09/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 2

Paperbacks

06/01/2021-----Mary Jane Ward: The Snake Pit
07/06/2021-----Delores Hitchens: Sleep with Strangers
07/06/2021-----Delores Hitchens: Sleep with Slander

Thanks, Podras! (Keep in mind: that pub. date for Barthelme didn't change until May 4th, when it was originally supposed to publish -- I know, because I waited until the 4th -- Australian time -- to order, thinking I'd sync up with the shipment to Book Depository).

*sigh*

It's a brave new world, for sure.

>37 Truett: Check out my post for March 15 (>32 Podras.:)

Amazon is currently showing a publication date for the upcoming Fitzgerald
volume:

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26 (LOA #353) Hardcover – February 1, 2022

Here's the included write-up regarding the contents:

"This long-awaited second volume of Library of America’s authoritative edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald features the author’s acknowledged masterpiece and most popular book, The Great Gatsby.

It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel—for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan’s voice is 'full of money'), its dominance of high school and college curricula, and its claims upon the public imagination. The novel is presented in a newly edited text, correcting numerous errors and restoring Fitzgerald’s preferred American spellings.

Also included in this volume are Fitzgerald’s third collection of stories, All the Sad Young Men, which includes some of the author’s best short fiction—'Winter Dreams,' 'The Rich Boy,' and 'Absolution'—as well as a generous selection of stories and nonfiction from the period 1920–1926, all in newly corrected texts."

"John Updike: Novels 1986–1990 (LOA #354): Roger's Version / Rabbit at Rest" listed on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/John-Updike-Novels-1986-1990-Version/dp/1598537172/ref=sr...

The Plymouth Colony volume (#337), which was originally scheduled for publication in November 2020, but which has had its publication date pushed back several times on Amazon, now seems to have disappeared altogether from Amazon.

There have been some changes since this list was last updated. Aside from updating the release dates reported by Amazon, the Elizabeth Spencer, Donald Barthelme, and Mary Jane Ward volumes are now in general release and have been removed. Also, as noted by >41 euphorb:, Amazon is no longer showing the Plymouth Colony volume. It has been moved to the bottom of the list pending further information.

David, is there an update about Plymouth Colony's status that you can share with us?

Note that the slipcased O'Henry, Perelman, Bradbury, Hamilton, and Williams volumes are currently available for ordering from LOA's members and subscribers web site. The paperback Delores Hitchens volumes can not be ordered there; at least not yet. LOA volumes this close to release would usually have been available on the members and subscribers site long before this. That was the case with Mary Jane Ward's paperback edition of The Snake Pit. That raises the question of whether or not they will be offered to LOA's members and subscribers at a discounted price.

Here is the current list of upcoming volumes with their current availability dates.

Main Series Volumes

06/29/2021-----O’Henry: 101 Stories
08/10/2021-----S. J. Perelman: Selected Writings
09/07/2021-----Ray Bradbury: Novels & Story Cycles
09/14/2021-----Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels
10/05/2021-----John Williams: Collected Novels
10/16/2021-----W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
10/26/2021-----World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
12/07/2021-----Rachel Carson: The Ocean Trilogy
???????????-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War

Boxed Sets

11/30/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications

10/19/2021-----American Christmas Stories
11/30/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 1
11/30/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 2

Paperbacks

07/06/2021-----Delores Hitchens: Sleep with Strangers
07/06/2021-----Delores Hitchens: Sleep with Slander

Amazon is now showing a publication date for Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Other Writings (LOA #355). March 29, 2022. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1598537245/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=library+of...

Here's the writeup:

In one volume for the first time, three books that together form a bold, groundbreaking retelling of our national story by a great American writer, starting from her experience as the daughter of Chinese immigrants

The child of Chinese immigrants, Maxine Hong Kingston grew up in California and was an unknown writer living in Hawaii when she made her stunning entrance on the American literary scene with The Woman Warrior (1976). Her “memoirs of a childhood among ghosts” was not only an account of growing up poor and Chinese American in the San Joaquin Valley but also an audacious feat of imaginative transformation, drawing on ancient myths and the family stories her mother brought over from China.

A companion to The Woman Warrior, which she called her “mother-book,” Kingston’s “father-book” China Men (1980) spreads out across a large geographical and historical canvas to envision the lives of her male relatives who immigrated to America. Taken together, The Woman Warrior and China Men offer a profound, kaleidoscopic, genre-defying narrative of the American experience.

Kingston's third book, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1990), is the wildly inventive story of Wittman Ah Sing, a Berkeley graduate student whose experience of the San Francisco Beat scene transforms his understanding of his own Chinese heritage.

Rounding out the volume are a series of essays from 1978 reflecting on her life in Hawaii, later collected as Hawai‘i One Summer, personal musings whose subjects range from the contentions of a conference of Asian American writers to home-buying, surfing, and the work of the Beat poet Lew Welch. Also included are hard-to-find essays about the creative process and Kingston’s exasperated, insightful account of how most of the reviewers of The Woman Warrior fell prey to lazy stereotypes about the “exotic” and “inscrutable” East.

The Kingston edition looks interesting. I'd heard of Tripmaster Monkey (I will confess, first by coming across a band naming itself for it) but not the others.

>43 euphorb:

Thank you for the update, that sounds fascinating. I have never heard of the author or the books but look forward to the new volume.

This bests the Everyman’s Kingston which includes only The Woman Warrior and China Men (though it does have an introduction).

Amazon is now showing a publication date for Gary Snyder: Collected Poems (LOA #357) Hardcover – April 5, 2022 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1598537210/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=library+of...

Here is the write-up:

"The first collected edition of an essential, Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet, the indispensable voice whose deep ecological vision and Buddhist spirituality grows more relevant with each passing decade

Gary Snyder is one of America’s indispensable poets, the “Thoreau of the Beat Generation” and our “laureate of Deep Ecology.” Now, for the first time, all of Snyder’s poetry is gathered in a single, authoritative Library of America volume.

Here are all of Snyder’s published books of poetry spanning a career of almost seventy years. Early collections such as Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, Myths & Texts, and The Back Country reflect his hardscrabble rural upbringing in the Pacific Northwest; his life as a logger, fire-lookout, freighter crewman, carpenter, and trail-blazer; his lifelong interest in Native American oral literatures; and his pioneering studies of Zen Buddhism.

In Turtle Island and Axe Handles––the former a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and the latter the American Book Award in 1984––he explores countercultural alternatives to environmental and spiritual decline and envisioning new forms of harmony with nature.

His epic Mountains and Rivers Without End, a poem four decades in the making and regarded by many as his masterwork, is followed by Danger on Peaks, and the intimate, preternaturally candid late lyrics of This Present Moment, which meditate on his life as a father, husband, friend, neighbor, and homesteader in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada, where he has lived since 1971.

The volume concludes with a generous selection, made by Snyder himself, of previously uncollected poems from little magazines and broadsides; translations from East Asian literatures; and drafts and fragments never before published. Also included are explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Snyder’s life, and an essay on textual selection."

>47 euphorb:

That is fantastic, and long-awaited news!

I presume/am hopeful there will be an edition of Snyder's prose, as well.

It has been only a couple of weeks since the last update, but LOA has just announced new titles for Spring 2022, so it's time for another. I've dropped titles that have reached general release from the list. That would be the O'Henry volume in the main series and the two non-series paperback novels by Delores Hitchens; Sleep with Strangers and Sleep with Slander.

One of the newly announced titles is a paperback edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. I haven't listed it here because it is already available in the main series volume of Hemingway's works (#334).

There is still no word about the status of main series volume 337 about Plymouth Colony writings. I've kept it on the list but moved it to the bottom with question marks. The last release date reported by Amazon was Oct. 28, 2021, but they no longer list it.

As mentioned in the last update, the Perelman, Bradbury, Hamilton, and Williams volumes are currently available for ordering on LOA's members and subscribers web site.

Here is the current list of announced future releases.

Main Series Volumes

08/10/2021-----S. J. Perelman: Selected Writings
09/07/2021-----Ray Bradbury: Novels & Story Cycles
09/14/2021-----Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels
10/05/2021-----John Williams: Collected Novels
10/16/2021-----W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
10/26/2021-----World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
12/07/2021-----Rachel Carson: The Ocean Trilogy
02/01/2022-----F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26
02/15/2022-----John Updike: Novels 1986–1990
03/29/2022-----Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripster Monkey, Other Writings
04/05/2022-----Gary Snyder: Collected Poems
Apr. 2022-----Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories, & Poems
May 2022-----Frederick Douglas: Speeches & Writings
May 2022-----Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy
?????????-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War

Boxed Sets

11/30/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications

10/19/2021-----American Christmas Stories
11/30/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 1
11/30/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 2
Mar. 2022-----The Heart of American Poetry

Haven't been following this group for a while and just dropped back in. I'm especially excited about the complete collection of Richard Wilbur's Moliere translations. The new Rachel Carson volume's going to be welcome too.

There have been several general release date changes as per Amazon since my last update, but I've been holding off updating this until Amazon provided dates for all the new releases LOA announced in their last bulletin. The Bruce Catton volume, the last of the batch, has finally dropped, so it is update time.

Note that the Plymouth Colony volume is still in limbo, so I've separated it into its own category. The last date Amazon had for a release was Sep. 28 before giving up and in effect dropping it until further notice. I've asked David for a status in another thread.

Main Series Volumes

10/19/2021-----John Williams: Collected Novels
11/09/2021-----World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
11/16/2021-----W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
12/07/2021-----Rachel Carson: The Ocean Trilogy
02/01/2022-----F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26
02/15/2022-----John Updike: Novels 1986–1990
03/29/2022-----Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripster Monkey, Other Writings
04/05/2022-----Gary Snyder: Collected Poems
04/19/2022-----Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories, & Poems
05/03/2022-----Frederick Douglas: Speeches & Writings
05/31/2022-----Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy

Announced Main Series Volumes in Limbo

??/??/????-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War

Boxed Sets

12/28/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications

10/26/2021-----American Christmas Stories
12/28/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 1
12/28/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 2
03/29/2022-----The Heart of American Poetry

Once again, there have been a number of availability date changes to report. A big gap has opened up between the end of this year and the Fitzgerald volume, the first to become available next year, and several volumes are now bunched together on June 21. Good news is that main-series volume 337, Plymouth Colony, has reappeared on Amazon. As usual, volumes that are now available have been dropped from the list. This includes John Williams, World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater, American Christmas Stories.

Main Series Volumes

12/14/2021-----W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
12/21/2021-----Rachel Carson: The Ocean Trilogy
04/05/2022-----F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26
05/03/2022-----Frederick Douglas: Speeches & Writings
05/17/2022-----Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripster Monkey, Other Writings
05/31/2022-----Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy
06/21/2022-----John Updike: Novels 1986–1990
06/21/2022-----Gary Snyder: Collected Poems
06/21/2022-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
08/16/2022-----Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories, & Poems

Boxed Sets

12/28/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications

12/28/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 1
12/28/2021-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 2
04/19/2022-----The Heart of American Poetry

>52 Podras.: thank you once again for this, really helpful and appreciated.

It has only been a short while since the last update to this list, but there have already been more significant date changes. Specifically, the second Fredrick Douglas volume and the Bruce Catton Civil War trilogy have moved further out in time. There has also been a slip in the release date of the Moliere volumes and boxed set.

David Cloyce-Smith has explained that the pandemic is responsible for the long delay in the Plymouth Colony volume. Perhaps that accounts for the spreading out of the release schedule, too. Whatever the reason, it is beginning to appear that there may be few if any new volumes announced for next spring.

Main Series Volumes

12/14/2021-----W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
12/21/2021-----Rachel Carson: The Ocean Trilogy
04/05/2022-----F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26
05/17/2022-----Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Other Writings
06/21/2022-----John Updike: Novels 1986–1990
06/21/2022-----Gary Snyder: Collected Poems
06/21/2022-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
08/16/2022-----Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories, & Poems
09/06/2022-----Frederick Douglas: Speeches & Writings
10/04/2022-----Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy

Boxed Sets

01/11/2020-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications

01/18/2022-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 1
01/18/2022-----Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Vol. 2
04/19/2022-----The Heart of American Poetry

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Edited Dec. 10 to update the availability dates for the individual volumes of the 2-volume Molière set.

The availability dates for the individual volumes of the 2-volume Molière set have changed. The 2-volume boxed set availability remains the same. The new dates have been edited into the listing above.

Oscar Hijuelos
https://www.amazon.com/Oscar-Hijuelos-Novels-Library-America/dp/159853730X/ref=m...

Rudolfo Anaya
https://www.amazon.com/Rudolfo-Anaya-Tortuga-Alburquerque-Library/dp/1598537296/...

>56 A_B:
>57 A_B:

Well spotted, thank you! Very exciting.

A volume of two essays by Hannah Arendt, not a regular volume in main collection ,only 120 pages

https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Politics-Hannah-Arendt/dp/1598537318/ref=mp_s_a_1_4...

>59 A_B: thank you!

The new upcoming volumes sound interesting. I'm going to hold off on updating the list in >54 Podras.: until LOA formally announces them, though.

I've rechecked all of the dates in >54 Podras.:. The only change is to the Molière boxed set which is now reported to be set for Jan. 25, 2022. The individual Molière volumes are still Jan. 18. I've been unable to check the Bruce Catton volume. Amazon isn't showing it anymore. I'm sure it will reappear in time.

>57 A_B:

The Anaya volume is depicted in the Amazon link as having a revised jacket design. I like it.

This Amazon link shows the the second volume of Bradbury in a boxed set https://www.amazon.com/dp/1598537407/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2LAPLV5M14V89&keywo...

>63 A_B: great news, thank you for the info.

Bradbury's stories ... pretty exciting!!!

>63 A_B: That's cool. We've had a general slowdown on boxes (part of the slowdown on everything, I expect) so this is welcome.

Yay!
Another Ray Bradbury volume! :)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710513/ray-bradbury-the-illustrated-man...

A boxed set of BOTH Bradbury volumes from LOA will be out next October as well. And Amazon's listing has all of the contents, for those wondering:

Ray Bradbury: Novels & Storiy Cycles (LOA #347)
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
FAHRENHEIT 451
DANDELION WINE
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Appendix:
• "A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles"
• "Day After Tomorrow: Why Science Fiction?"
• "No Man Is an Island"
• "Just This Side of Byzantium" (An Introduction to Dandelion Wine)
• "Dandelion Wine Revisited"
• "Carnivals, Near and Far" (An Afterword to Something Wicked This Way Comes)

Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country & Other Stories (LOA #360)
THE ILLUSTRATED MAN
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY
Other Stories:
• “R Is for Rocket”
• “Chrysalis”
• “Frost and Fire”
• “Powerhouse”
• “Pillar of Fire”
• “Asleep in Armageddon”
• “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed”
• “A Touch of Petulance”
• “The Screaming Woman”
• “The Fog Horn”
• “The Pedestrian”
• “The Playground”
• “A Sound of Thunder”
• “The Great Wide World Over There”
• “The Golden Apples of the Sun”
• “And the Rock Cried Out”
• “All Summer in a Day”
• “Interval in Sunlight”
• “At Midnight, in the Month of June”
• “The Strawberry Window”
• “Icarus Montgolfier Wright”
• “The End of the Beginning”
• “The Day It Rained Forever”
• “A Miracle of Rare Device”
• “The Kilimanjaro Device”
• “The Lost City of Mars”
• “I Sing the Body Electric!”

Sci Fi volume of short stories by women https://www.amazon.com/dp/1598537326/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=CACRUXKC9TK0&keywor...

Don DeLillo:

https://amazon.com/dp/1598537334/ref=sr_1_2?crid=A9PGY9V5JNUM&keywords=libra...

"Library of America launches a definitive edition of a modern master with three essential works that reveal his incomparable style, dark humor, and uncanny sensitivity to the complexities of "living in dangerous times"

This first volume in the Library of America Don DeLillo edition presents three indispensable novels from the 1980s, published here with new prefaces from the author.

The Names (1982) was DeLillo's breakthrough novel, a book that, as he reflects here, spanned a “broader expanse” than his earlier novels. James Axton, a “risk analyst” tasked with assessing dangers for his corporate clients from terrorism and other forms of political upheaval, uncovers evidence of ritual murders committed by a cult obsessed with ancient languages. The investigations of these crimes yields a profound series of meditations on identity, disconnection, and the nature of language itself.

Part campus satire, part midlife character study, and part fever dream of a hyperreality that has become uncannily familiar, the National Book Award–winning White Noise (1985) creates a terrifying yet wickedly funny portrait of a postmodern America that is still recognizably ours, a world where children chant brand names in their sleep, university professors “read nothing but cereal boxes,” and “you are the sum of your data.”

Three years in the research and writing, Libra (1988) offers a magnificent counter-history of the JFK assassination and a nuanced portrait of the president’s murderer. DeLillo has observed that “the novel, working within history, is also outside it, correcting, clearing up, finding balances and rhythms.” The result is a revelatory new depiction of a defining event in twentieth-century history.

Rounding out the volume are two hard-to-find essays directly related to the novels: “American Blood,” the 1983 Rolling Stone article that was DeLillo’s first effort to grapple with the JFK assassination and the welter of information and speculation the events of the killing and Oswald’s own murder by Jack Ruby; and “Silhouette City,” an assessment of extremist right-wing groups and the troubling presence of neo-Nazism in the United States."

Wow, LOA has a lot of great volumes coming out!

I've been weighing whether to read more DeLillo, and this LOA volume might just tip me into the affirmative column. Still think I want to re-read Mao II, which remains on my shelves for precisely that purpose.

>69 euphorb: Thank you!

I’m really happy to see that it refers to this as “the first volume in…”, good news for now and good news for later!

both Maxine Hong Kingston "The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Other Writings" (April arrival) and the second volume of F. Scott Fitzgerald "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–1926" (March arrival) are on the subscriber's page.

PODRAS!
Time to work your magic and update the release dates list (what with Bradbury, Delillo and all the others added to the 2022 publication list)!
:)

>75 Truett: See >61 Podras.:.

LOA has just formally announced a new batch of forthcoming releases. Besides this update adding the new volumes, some have been dropped that are now generally available. W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction is out as is Rachel Carson's The Ocean Trilogy. Also now available is the two-volume set of the Richard Wilber translation of Molière's plays.

As usual, there are a few date changes.

David Cloyce-Smith has reconfirmed the affect the pandemic has had on LOA's publication schedule. Hopefully, that negative pressure will ease off in the coming months, and the schedule will stabilize.

The Fitzgerald and Kingston volumes are currently available for ordering from LOA's Members and Subscribers pages, as is the non main-series The Heart of American Poetry.

Here is the current list:

Main Series Volumes

04/05/2022-----F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26
05/17/2022-----Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Other Writings
06/21/2022-----John Updike: Novels 1986–1990
06/21/2022-----Gary Snyder: Collected Poems
06/21/2022-----Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War
08/30/2022-----Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories, & Poems
09/13/2022-----Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima, Tortuga, Albuquerque
09/13/2022-----Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings & Other Novels ⁽¹⁾
09/27/2022-----Frederick Douglas: Speeches & Writings
10/04/2022-----Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country & Other Stories
10/18/2022-----Don DeLillo: Three Novels of the 1980s ⁽²⁾
10/25/2022-----Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy
Jan. 2023-----Norman Mailer:The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946

Boxed Sets

10/04/2022-----Ray Bradbury: The Ray Bradbury Collection (2-volumes)

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications

04/19/2022-----The Heart of American Poetry
09/06/2022-----Hannah Arendt: On Lying and Politics ⁽³⁾
10/11/2022-----The Future is Female 2! ⁽⁴⁾

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Notes

¹ Oscar Hijuelos: Our House in the Last World, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Mr. Ives' Christmas

² Don DeLillo: The Names, White Noise, Libra

³ No trace of this can be found on Amazon (yet), but a Google search turned it up on a Penguin Random House web site.

⁴ 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women Writers of the 1970s

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Edit Update Feb. 9, 2022 to remove footnote ⁽³⁾

Any news on international shipping and membership?

>78 ironjaw: Nothing that I've heard of since David last addressed the issue. I'm not privy to that kind of info.

The Hannah Arendt volume actually is on Amazon. It's at:
https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Politics-Hannah-Arendt/dp/1598537318/ref=mp_s_a_1_4...

>80 euphorb: Thanks. Your search is better than mine. It still doesn't turn up the volume on Amazon. I've updated my post above.

The final volume of the LOA Updike novel edition:

https://www.amazon.com/John-Updike-1996-2000-Gertrude-Remembered/dp/159853744X/r...

"The Library of America's five-volume edition of Updike's novels culminates with three masterful late works: a brilliant exploration of the American Century; a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet; and a bittersweet coda to the Rabbit series

The capstone volume of the Library of America edition of John Updike’s novels contains some of the master stylist and social observer’s most ambitious works.

In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) opens in 1910, when Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian minister in Paterson, NJ, experiences a devastating loss of faith. This moment of crisis sets in motion an eighty-year, multigenerational saga whose subject is nothing less than the American Century and modernity itself, seen through the fluctuating fortunes of a single representative family.

In Gertrude and Claudius, Updike boldly imagines the long backstory to the world’s most famous play, prompting readers to revisit and perhaps revise their judgments about Hamlet’s notorious uncle and mother. Drawing on the twelfth- and fifteenth century sources for Hamlet, but also inventing a new history for Claudius in his far-flung travels across medieval Europe, Updike creates a vivid and surprising origin story for the fabled rottenness in Shakespeare’s Denmark.

The novella Rabbit Remembered (2000) is a poignant final curtain call for one of the greatest characters in twentieth-century American literature. Once again the setting is Brewer, Pennsylvania, but now Harry Angstrom’s family are figuring out their lives in his absence. Harry’s ghost is insistently present, and the stories shared by his children suggest that the reckoning with those closest to us, for better and for worse, never really ends.

None of these books have ever been published in an annotated edition. This deluxe editions includes six rare pieces by Updike reflecting on the novels collected here."

We can now definitively list the Updike novels NOT included in the LOA edition:

Marry Me (1977)
S. (1988)
Memories of the Ford Administration (1992)
Brazil (1994)
Toward the End of Time (1997)
Seek My Face (2002)
Villages (2004)
Terrorist (2006)
The Widows of Eastwick (2008)

It is interesting that unannounced LOA main-series volumes are starting to show up on Amazon, but one that has been announced, Norman Mailer:The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946 (#364), still isn't there.

>83 Podras.: I noticed that as well. But I also noticed it for the last cycle. Some of the later announced titled were slow in showing up on Amazon, and they did not show up in the same order as the series numbers might imply. I'm guessing it has to do with how far along in the editing, production, and printing process each book is. That process may move at different speeds for different volumes, and they have to be at a certain point before they show up on Amazon.

>83 Podras.: https://www.amazon.com/Norman-Mailer-Selected-Letters-1945-1946/dp/1598537431/re...

>85 desmondjones: How did you find it? It still doesn't come up for me. Except for your link, of course.

With thanks to >85 desmondjones:, we finally have general release dates from Amazon for all of the remaining announced forthcoming LOA volumes.

Since the last update, the 2^nd  Fitzgerald volume, the Kingston volume, the 4^th volume of Updike's novels, and Snyder's poetry have reached general release and been removed from the list. Non main-series volume, The Heart of American Poetry, has also been released. There has been a date change for DeLilo's volume.

Here is the current list:

Main Series Volumes

08/30/2022-----Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories, & Poems
09/13/2022-----Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima, Tortuga, Albuquerque
09/13/2022-----Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings & Other Novels ⁽¹⁾
09/27/2022-----Frederick Douglas: Speeches & Writings
10/04/2022-----Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country & Other Stories
11/08/2022-----Don DeLillo: Three Novels of the 1980s ⁽²⁾
10/25/2022-----Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy
01/10/2023-----Norman Mailer:The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946

Boxed Sets

10/04/2022-----Ray Bradbury: The Ray Bradbury Collection (2-volumes)

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications

09/06/2022-----Hannah Arendt: On Lying and Politics
10/11/2022-----The Future is Female 2! ⁽³⁾

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Notes

¹ Oscar Hijuelos: Our House in the Last World, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Mr. Ives' Christmas

² Don DeLillo: The Names, White Noise, Libra

³ 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women Writers of the 1970s

French Amazon has a new Malamud volume coming in March 2023.
https://www.amazon.fr/Bernard-Malamud-Stories-Tenants-Writings/dp/B0B45CHX5D/ref...

>86 Podras.: I also hadn't been able to find it using the search "Library of America 364." What does come up on that search is the 2000 paperback edition of The Naked and the Dead. I tried it again this morning with the same result, but this time I then clicked on "Hardback," and, lo and behold, the LOA edition came up. Go figure.

>89 euphorb: That’s how I found it on the website. I knew it had to be there somewhere, however, because in the Amazon app it’s the very first result (at least for me) under plain “Norman Mailer.”

Someone responsible for Amazon's listings is getting sloppy. I've seen a number of instances of goofs--not like this one, but goofs nonetheless--over the past few years. This is the only instance of a problem with an LOA listing that I recall.

>88 HansC: It doesn't show up on the US version of Amazon--yet. Perhaps it is hiding under hardback editions of mud pie recipes. I loved the first two volumes of LOA's Malamud edition and am happily awaiting this one's arrival.

As long as we're talking about 2023 LOA volumes, it was said a couple of years ago that an edition of Ursula LeGuin's poetry would be released sometime in the 2022-2023 time frame. Perhaps something about that may show up soon if it is going to be a spring release.

The words were barely out of my fingertips above when LOA announced their new Spring 2023 releases. There are four new main-series volumes coming as well as a couple of paperbacks. One, Where the Light Falls by Nancy Hale, is a reprint of an earlier hardback release by LOA and is not included below.

Here is the updated list:

Main Series Volumes

08/30/2022-----Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories, & Poems
09/13/2022-----Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima, Tortuga, Albuquerque
09/13/2022-----Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings & Other Novels ⁽¹⁾
09/27/2022-----Frederick Douglas: Speeches & Writings
10/04/2022-----Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country & Other Stories
11/08/2022-----Don DeLillo: Three Novels of the 1980s ⁽²⁾
10/25/2022-----Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy
01/10/2023-----Norman Mailer:The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946
03/14/2023-----John Updike: Novels 1996–2000 ⁽³⁾
03/14/2023-----Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s & 80s ⁽⁴⁾
04/04/2023-----Ursula K. LeGuin: Collected Poems
May 2023-----Charles Portis: Collected Works

Boxed Sets

10/04/2022-----Ray Bradbury: The Ray Bradbury Collection (2-volumes)

Special (Non-Main Series) Publications

09/06/2022-----Hannah Arendt: On Lying and Politics
10/11/2022-----The Future is Female 2! ⁽⁵⁾

Paperbacks

May 2023-----Nancy Hale: The Prodigal Women

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Notes

¹ Oscar Hijuelos: Our House in the Last World, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Mr. Ives' Christmas

² Don DeLillo: The Names, White Noise, Libra

³ John Updike: In the Beauty of the Lilies • Gertrude and Claudius • Rabbit Remembered

⁴ Bernard Malamud: The Tenants • Dubin’s Live s • God’s Grace • Stories & Memoirs

⁵ 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women Writers of the 1970s

The Gilman, Anaya, Hijuelos, and Bradbury volumes are available for ordering on LOA's members and subscribers web site, and it looks like the Anaya and Hijuelos volumes are about to start shipping,

Here are the latest general release dates for announced LOA volumes not yet generally released. Time has passed and quite a few of the volumes previously listed are out and so have been removed from the list . None of the dates for the ones still on the list have changed, and dates that had previously been unavailable for the Portis and Hale volumes have been added.

The Norman Mailer volume can be now ordered from LOA's members and subscribers web site, and it looks like it is getting ready to ship.

Here is the updated list:

Main Series Volumes

11/08/2022-----Don DeLillo: Three Novels of the 1980s
01/10/2023-----Norman Mailer:The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946
03/14/2023-----John Updike: Novels 1996–2000 ⁽¹⁾
03/14/2023-----Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s & 80s ⁽²⁾
04/04/2023-----Ursula K. LeGuin: Collected Poems
05/09/2023-----Charles Portis: Collected Works

Paperbacks

05/09/2023-----Nancy Hale: The Prodigal Women

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Notes

¹ John Updike: In the Beauty of the Lilies • Gertrude and Claudius • Rabbit Remembered

² Bernard Malamud: The Tenants • Dubin’s Live s • God’s Grace • Stories & Memoirs

Amazon used to be pretty reliable for accessing release dates of forthcoming volumes within a rational timeframe. However strange things have been happening recently. For a couple of years now, I've seen books listed that were never released or that were released on dates that were wildly different from the dates provided. These didn't have anything to do with LOA, but a more recent incident is that LOA's Catton volume was (and still is) buried in the listing of some other book. Now, I find that some forthcoming LOA books that I used to be able to pull up to verify the release dates can no longer be accessed. At least I haven't been able to being them up. I had to verify the release dates by going to the Barnes & Nobel web site.

Now something new and novel has occurred. One of LOA's volumes has been listed this way:

Rare BERNARD MALAMUD Novels & Stories 1940s-50s Library of America in Slipcase SEALED

Hardcover – January 1, 1777

Rare indeed with that release date. Amazon lists the volume for $99.

I'm considering starting this thread anew with a title that omits the Amazon name; just says General Release Dates or some such. I'm not going to do it right away, but it won't take much for me to decide to do it.

In the interests of full disclosure, I have had recent unrelated issues with Amazon that have led me to go elsewhere for online book purchases, now and for the foreseeable future.

Leap-frogging from May (the Charles Portis edition, special Nancy Hale paperback) to September (either because of the ongoing difficulty of lining up Printer production dates, or because another title or two will be inserted later), Amazon is now listing FOUR more LOA titles for 2023!

The first will be paperback edition of THE GREAT GATSBY, which will include four stories with similar themes _and_ (and!!) letters from Fitzgerald to Maxwell Perkins, the famous editor at Scribners back in the day. If the LOA _didn't_ include those letters in the recent, offical, hardcover release of "Gatsby" (LOA 353), that was just wrong. And a tad greedy on their part.
The current, Amazon-listed, release date is Sept. 5, 2023.

The next books are the ones I'm most excited about: CRIME NOVELS OF THE 1960s. Too bad Harlan Ellison isn't still alive, he would have loved to see his buddy Donald Westlake included in the LOA. Not to mention, another one of his writing icons (Borges, Westlake and Prokosch, numbered among them), Fredric Brown. The Williams book was famously made into a film by Orson Welles which only lacked "looping" of the actors' voices to be completed (but the lead male actor, Laurence Harvey, died before that could happen). Not to mention books by Margaret Millar and Patricia Highsmith, Ed McBain and Chester Himes (author of IF HE HOLLERS, LET HIM GO), as well. And there's another book from Dorothy Hughes, who wrote one of my favorite crime novels, IN A LONELY PLACE.The books will be sold together, as a set, and separately, too, on Sept. 12th.
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1961-1964:
THE MURDERERS by Fredric Brown
THE NAME OF THE GAME IS DEATH by Dan J. Marlowe
DEAD CALM by Charles Williams
THE EXPENDABLE MAN by Dorothy B. Hughes
THE SCORE by Richard Stark

1964-1969
THE FIEND by Margaret Millar
DOLL by Ed McBain
RUN MAN RUN by Chester Himes
THE TREMOR OF FORGERY by Patricia Highsmith
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And, the last, newly-listed, LOA book on Amazon is
ADRIENNE KENNEDY: COLLECTED PLAYS & OTHER WRITINGS. I have
to admit to a total ignorance of Kennedy's writings, so I'll have
to delve into the internet and see what I can learn about her plays. This book is also scheduled for Sept, 12th.

>98 Truett: Thanks for this update, Truett. The Charles Portis volume is #369. The set of crime novels from the 60s are #370 and 371. The Adrienne Kennedy volume is #372. So, it appears that there are no volumes planned between Portis and those you listed, so leapfrogging from May to September it is.

It not in Amazon yet, but vol. 366 is said to be Black Writers of the Founding Era, published around December (???) next year. LOA's next new publications announcement seems to be shaping up nicely.

Recently, LOA announced its fall 2023 publications. Here are the latest general release dates for all formally announced publications. Volumes already released have been removed from the list. Note that there are a couple of date changes from the previous list as usual.

LOA's members and subscribers web page is now taking orders for the Updike, Malamud, and Portis volumes.

Main Series Volumes

03/14/2023-----John Updike: Novels 1996–2000 ⁽¹⁾
03/14/2023-----Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s & 80s ⁽²⁾
04/04/2023-----Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems
04/04/2023-----Charles Portis: Collected Works
09/12/2023-----Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 ⁽³⁾
09/12/2023-----Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 ⁽⁴⁾
09/12/2023-----Adrienne Kennedy: Collected Plays & Other Writings
10/03/2023-----Joanna Russ: Novels and Stories ⁽⁵⁾
10/17/2023-----Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld
Nov. 2023-----Black Writers of the Founding Era
Nov. 2023-----William Faulkner: Stories

Boxed Sets

09/12/2023-----Crime Novels of the 1960s (2-volumes)

Paperbacks

05/09/2023-----Nancy Hale: The Prodigal Women
09/05/2023-----F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby and Related Stories ⁽⁶⁾
Nov. 2023-----John A. Williams: The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel
Nov. 2023-----Ronald L. Fair: Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable

---

Notes

¹ John Updike: In the Beauty of the Lilies • Gertrude and Claudius • Rabbit Remembered

² Bernard Malamud: The Tenants • Dubin’s Live s • God’s Grace • Stories & Memoirs

³ The Murderers by Fredric Brown • The Name of the Game Is Death by Dan J. Marlowe • Dead Calm by Charles Williams • The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes • The Score by Richard Stark

⁴ The Fiend by Margaret Millar • Doll by Ed McBain • Run Man Run by Chester Himes • The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith

⁵ The Female Man • We Who Are About To . . . • On Strike Against God • The Complete Alyx Stories • Other Stories

⁶ LOA published The Great Gatsby in Main Series volume 353; F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26

More strangeness from Amazon. I can't get a listing for the upcoming Malamud volume. Only past Malamud volumes show up. If a search by name can't bring it up, then entering "The Library of America ###" where ### is the main series volume number usually works. When I enter it with 367, the number of the next Malamud volume, works by Le Guin are the result.

Once again Barnes & Nobel is more reliable.

A check with Amazon shows that specific general release dates are now available for all of LOA's announced forthcoming publications. There has been one change in the dates previously announced. The Malamud volume has moved out a couple of weeks.

LOA's members and subscribers web page is taking orders for the Updike, Malamud, Le Guin, and Portis volumes, and all are currently being delivered.

Main Series Volumes

03/14/2023-----John Updike: Novels 1996–2000 ⁽¹⁾
03/28/2023-----Bernard Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1970s & 80s ⁽²⁾
04/04/2023-----Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems
04/04/2023-----Charles Portis: Collected Works
09/12/2023-----Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 ⁽³⁾
09/12/2023-----Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 ⁽⁴⁾
09/12/2023-----Adrienne Kennedy: Collected Plays & Other Writings
10/03/2023-----Joanna Russ: Novels and Stories ⁽⁵⁾
10/17/2023-----Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld
11/07/2023-----William Faulkner: Stories
11/14/2023-----Black Writers of the Founding Era

Boxed Sets

09/12/2023-----Crime Novels of the 1960s (2-volumes)

Paperbacks

05/09/2023-----Nancy Hale: The Prodigal Women
09/05/2023-----F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby and Related Stories ⁽⁶⁾
11/07/2023-----John A. Williams: The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel
11/07/2023-----Ronald L. Fair: Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable

---

Notes

¹ John Updike: In the Beauty of the Lilies • Gertrude and Claudius • Rabbit Remembered

² Bernard Malamud: The Tenants • Dubin’s Live s • God’s Grace • Stories & Memoirs

³ The Murderers by Fredric Brown • The Name of the Game Is Death by Dan J. Marlowe • Dead Calm by Charles Williams • The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes • The Score by Richard Stark

⁴ The Fiend by Margaret Millar • Doll by Ed McBain • Run Man Run by Chester Himes • The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith

⁵ The Female Man • We Who Are About To . . . • On Strike Against God • The Complete Alyx Stories • Other Stories

⁶ LOA published The Great Gatsby in Main Series volume 353; F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26

A check with LOA's members & subscribers page reveals that they are coming out with a paperback version of Nancy Hale's story collection, Where the Light Falls, previously issued as a hardback. Her forthcoming novel, The Prodigal Women (May 9, 2023 general release) will be in a matched paperback edition. Both are priced to sell at significantly lower prices than offered on Amazon.

Amazon now shows the following LOA volume:

Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle (LOA #376): Part One: Reconstruction to the Red Summer Hardcover – February 6, 2024.

https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Crow-Century-Struggle-Reconstruction/dp/1598537660/re...

Dramatic firsthand writings bring to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War I

Traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction and the outspoken resistance to it.

W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality.

Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part One brings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony, judicial opinions, letters, and poems and song lyrics--more than eighty essential texts in all--from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the bloody “Red Summer” of 1919.

The volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, including Ida B. Wells on the myths of lynching, Richard T. Greener’s scathing critique of America’s “White Problem,” Charles Chesnutt on the nullification of the Fifteenth Amendment, Booker T. Washington’s historic Atlanta address, John Marshall Harlan’s eloquent and prophetic dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, Mary Church Terrell on segregation in the nation’s capital and the convict lease system, William Monroe Trotter’s dramatic White House confrontation with Woodrow Wilson, and Jeanette Carter’s tribute to the men and women who fought back white mobs in 1919.

The volume also presents revealing examples of white supremacist advocacy by Nathaniel Shaler and Benjamin Tillman; testimony about the “Exoduster” migration to Kansas in the 1870s; celebrations of pathbreaking Black musicians and stage performers; writing about the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the founding of the NAACP, and Black soldiers in World War I; and contrasting editorials from the Black and white press on prizefighter Jack Johnson and the outlaw Robert Charles.

>105 euphorb: I continue to be increasingly impressed with what I think of as LOA's contemporary historical writings sub-series within its main series. This volume is another example of why.

>106 Podras.: As do I.

Amazon is now showing another LOA volume for Spring 2024:

Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings (LOA #377) – February 27, 2024

https://www.amazon.com/Jimmy-Breslin-Essential-Writings-LOA/dp/1598537687/

"Rediscover the golden age of journalism, when columns were events

In one volume, the indispensable reportage of a master stylist who became an unforgettable larger-than-life character on the New York scene

"He opened us up to a world of possibilities. What we did with them was our concern. He had his own work to do. No one ever did it better."
—John Schulian

Across a career spanning six decades, Jimmy Breslin was the greatest newspaper columnist of his era. As quintessentially a New York figure as the memorable urban characters he portrayed, Breslin nonetheless transcended the confines of his local audience and became a national celebrity, writing with a novelist’s awareness of the telling detail that reveals the depth of a person’s, and a people's, character.

The 72 columns selected here by editor Dan Barry, more than half of which have not been reprinted since initial publication, reveal Breslin at his best, addressing stories of national and global importance but more often uncovering tales of ordinary New Yorkers, by turns tragic or absurd but always gripping to read. Gathered here are the highlights of his consummate deadline artistry: his celebrated interview with the man who dug the grave for John F. Kennedy, his coverage of the assassination of Malcolm X, his dispatches from the South at the height of the Civil Rights movement and from Vietnam, accounts of his involvement with the “Son of Sam” case as the serial killer who terrorized New York City in 1977, his story about John Lennon’s murder in 1980, his award-winning series about the AIDS crisis in 1986, and his disgusted glimpse of Donald Trump conning the press corps during a book promotion in 1990.

These masterful columns are joined by two of Breslin’s books: How the Good Guys Finally Won (1976), one of the best accounts of the Watergate scandal, centered on House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill and his allies, whose success in forcing Richard Nixon for office scored an unlikely victory for U.S. democracy; and The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez (2002), the story of an immigrant laborer killed at a construction site in Brooklyn and of the malfeasance among developers, city officials, and others that enabled the accident to happen."

Time for another update with LOA's announcement of it upcoming spring 2024 releases.

Since the last update, main-series volumes authored by John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Charles Portis have been generally released, as has a paperback edition of a novel by Nancy Hale. These have all been removed from the list.

Main Series Volumes

09/12/2023-----Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 ⁽¹⁾
09/12/2023-----Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 ⁽²⁾
09/12/2023-----Adrienne Kennedy: Collected Plays & Other Writings
10/03/2023-----Joanna Russ: Novels and Stories ⁽³⁾
10/17/2023-----Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld
11/07/2023-----William Faulkner: Stories
11/14/2023-----Black Writers of the Founding Era
02/06/2024-----Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle
02/27/2024-----Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings
03/12/2024-----Hellen Keller: Autobiographies & Other Writings
Apr. 2024-----Ursula K. Le Guin: Five Novels ⁽⁵⁾
May 2024-----Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 ⁽⁶⁾
Jul. 2024-----Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories ⁽⁷⁾

Boxed Sets

09/12/2023-----Crime Novels of the 1960s (2-volumes)
02/06/2024-----The Frederick Douglass Collection (2-volumes)

Special Edition

03/05/2024-----Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart

Paperbacks

09/05/2023-----F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby and Related Stories ⁽⁴⁾
11/07/2023-----John A. Williams: The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel
11/07/2023-----Ronald L. Fair: Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable
Apr. 2024-----S. J. Perelman: Crazy Like a Fox
Apr. 2024-----S. J. Perelman: Cloudland Revisited: A Misspent Youth in books and Film

---

Notes

¹ The Murderers by Fredric Brown, The Name of the Game Is Death by Dan J. Marlowe, Dead Calm by Charles Williams, The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes, The Score by Richard Stark

² The Fiend by Margaret Millar, Doll by Ed McBain, Run Man Run by Chester Himes, The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith

³ The Female Man, We Who Are About To . . ., On Strike Against God, The Complete Alyx Stories, Other Stories

⁴ LOA published The Great Gatsby in Main Series volume 353; F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26

⁵ The Lathe of Heaven, The Eye of the Heron, The Beginning Place, Searoad, Lavinia

⁶ The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins

⁷ The Postwar Years, The Memory of Old Jack, Remembering, Stories

>109 Podras.:
Thanks for this update. Just a note, though, that the paperback edition of The Great Gatsby and related stories will also include "letters between Fitzgerald and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, about the composition, editing, and publication of The Great Gatsby," which are not included in the main series volume. This is according to the announcement in the Forthcoming Fall 2023 news item.

Specific general release dates are now available for all the announced books from LOA except for one, the next Wendell Berry volume. The previously announced release date for the Jim Crow Part 1 volume has changed. Dropped from this list because of general available are the Crime Novels of the 1960s, and the Joanna Russ and Adrienne Kennedy volumes.

LOA Members and Subscribers are currently able to order the DedLillo, Faulkner, and Black Writers volumes in the main series. Also available for ordering are the Williams and Fair paperbacks.

Main Series Volumes

10/17/2023-----Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld
11/07/2023-----William Faulkner: Stories
11/14/2023-----Black Writers of the Founding Era
02/06/2024-----Ursula K. Le Guin: Five Novels ⁽¹⁾
02/27/2024-----Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings
03/12/2024-----Hellen Keller: Autobiographies & Other Writings
04/02/2024-----Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle
05/07/2024-----Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 ⁽²⁾
07/16/2024-----Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories ⁽³⁾

Boxed Sets

12/26/2024-----The Frederick Douglass Collection (2-volumes)

Special Edition

03/05/2024-----Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart

Paperbacks

11/07/2023-----John A. Williams: The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel
11/07/2023-----Ronald L. Fair: Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable
04/09/2024-----S. J. Perelman: Crazy Like a Fox ⁽⁴⁾
04/09/2024-----S. J. Perelman: Cloudland Revisited: A Misspent Youth in books and Film ⁽⁴⁾

---

Notes

¹ The Lathe of Heaven, The Eye of the Heron, The Beginning Place, Searoad, Lavinia

² The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins

³ The Postwar Years, The Memory of Old Jack, Remembering, Stories

⁴ A Kindle edition will become available on the same date.

The general release date for LOA's main-series volume 381, Wendel Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Postwar Years has been announced. It's July 16, 2024. I've updated the previous post to include it.

A listing has appeared on Amazon for LOA's main series volume 382, not yet officially announced: Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, edited by Rigoberto González. It is be released September 3, 2024.

The Frederick Douglas 2-volume boxed set general release date from LOA, formally reported to be available from Amazon 2/6/2024, is now listed as available on 12/26/2023. The date has been updated in the latest set of release date information above.

Amazon is now showing another volume for Fall 2024:

Ernest J. Gaines: Four Novels (LOA #383) -- September 27, 2024.

https://www.amazon.com/Ernest-J-Gaines-Autobiography-Gathering/dp/1598537903/ref...

"A major Black writer joins the Library of America with a volume collecting four landmark novels about race and the legacy of slavery in America

Includes A Lesson Before Dying, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and an Oprah Book Club selection

Ernest J. Gaines joins the Library of America with this volume gathering 4 essential masterpieces. Set on the former slave plantation in Louisiana on which Gaines grew up, these novels display a rare compassion and generosity for all the characters—Black and white alike—who inhabit a world as fully imagined as Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Here are:

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), the story of an elderly woman born into slavery who witnesses Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. A living testament to the history, hopes, courage, and survival of her people, Miss Jane is one of the most indelible and unforgettable characters in American fiction.

In My Father’s House (1978) finds an activist minister organizing a civil rights protest in his town when his estranged son suddenly appears on the scene, threatening to expose his family's secret past.

A Gathering of Old Men (1983) sees a group of elderly Black men with nothing left to lose decide to make a last stand against the racism that has defined and delimited their lives.

A Lesson Before Dying (1993, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and an Oprah Book Club selection), in which a local schoolteacher attempts to help a young man falsely convicted of the murder of a white man face execution with dignity.

A fitting tribute to a still underappreciated American genius, this volume also includes a chronology of Gaines’s life and career written by his authorized biographer, John Wharton Lowe, and helpful notes."

>115 euphorb: wow, really looking forward to this one, thanks for the heads up!

The James Baldwin Collection box set of the two Baldwin volumes appears with a June 25 release date on Amazon.

>117 bsc20: Actually the Baldwin Collection box set contains all three LOA Baldwin volumes -- Collected Essays, Early Novels and Stories, and Later Stories.

>118 euphorb: but no plays :( maybe the plays will be saved for a volume with other writers ?

>119 A_B: meant three volumes. Yeah, on the plays, maybe a black theater collection? Lorraine Hansberry, Carlyle Brown, Suzan Lori-Parks, Anna Deavere Smith, Lynn Nottage, Ntozake Shange, Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson (though his cycle should probably be a volume of its own).

>120 bsc20: Big fan of August Wilson. Definitely agree on a dedicated volume of his plays.

Amazon is now showing the next Hemingway volume in LOA:

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms & Other Writings 1927-1932 (LOA #384): Men Without Women / A Farwell to Arms / Death in the Afternoon / letters (October 1, 2024).

https://www.amazon.com/Ernest-Hemingway-Farewell-1927-1932-Afternoon/dp/15985378...

"The Library of America's definitive Hemingway edition continues with three classic works, all presented in new, corrected texts.

This much anticipated second volume in Library of America’s edition of the collected writings of Ernest Hemingway brings together 3 of the author’s classic works from the late 1920s and early 1930s, all presented in new, corrected texts prepared by Hemingway scholar Robert W. Trogdon. Reinstating expletives redacted by Hemingway’s editor Maxwell Perkins, fixing numerous errors, and restoring Hemingway’s preferred American spellings, these texts bring us closer than ever before to Hemingway’s intentions for his books. Here for the first time in one volume are:

Men Without Women (1927), Hemingway's second short story collection, which includes such classic stories as “In Another Country,” “The Killers,” “Ten Indians,” and “Hills Like White Elephants”;

A Farewell to Arms (1929), Hemingway's heartbreaking novel of love and war; and

Death in the Afternoon (1932), his grand mediation on bullfighting, mortality, and writing. All 81 photographs that appeared in Death in the Afternoon come scintillatingly alive here, reproduced from the original negatives for the first time since the book’s publication.

The volume also includes a selection of Hemingway’s letters from 1927 to 1932 that cast light on his life, artistic aims, and publishing activities during this period. A detailed chronology of the author’s life, explanatory notes, and a textual essay bring added value for readers."

On Amazon: The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain

>124 A_B:

The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain: A Library of America Special Publication Paperback (September 3, 2024)

https://www.amazon.com/MAD-Files-Cartoonists-Magazine-Publication/dp/159853792X/...

Before SNL and the wise-guy sarcasm of Letterman and Colbert, before The Simpsons and online memes, there was . . .  MAD.

A mainstay of countless American childhoods, MAD magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. Unfazed by lawsuits, the ire of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, and the dull-witted scorn of critics and scolds unwilling to get the joke, MAD became the zaniest, most subversive satire magazine ever to be sold on America’s newsstands, anticipating the spirit of underground comix and ’zines and influencing humor writing in movies, television, and the internet to this day.

Edited by David Mikics, The MAD Files celebrates the magazine’s impact and the legacy of the Usual Gang of Idiots who transformed puerile punchlines and merciless mockery into an art form. 26 essays and comics present a varied, perceptive, and often very funny account of MAD’s significance, ranging from the cultural to the aesthetic to the personal.

Art Spiegelman reflects on how he “couldn’t learn much about America from my refugee immigrant parents—but I learned all about it from MAD”;

Roz Chast remembers how the magazine was “love at first sight. MAD made fun of stuff that I thought needed to be made fun of. . . . It was one of my first inklings that there were other people out there who found the world as ridiculous as I did.”

David Hajdu and Grady Hendrix zero in on MAD’s hilarious movie spoofs;

Liel Leibovitz delves into the Jewishness behind the magazine’s humor;

and Rachel Shteir amplifies the often unsung contributions of MAD’s women artists.

Several essays are admiring profiles of the individual creators that made MAD what it was: Mort Drucker, Harvey Kurtzman, Al Jaffee, Antonio Prohias, and Will Elder. For longtime fans and new readers alike, The MAD Files is an indispensable guide to America’s greatest satire magazine.

>125 euphorb: This one sounds like a lot of fun!

I recall multiple occasions in my teens in which Mad magazine articles made me collapse helplessly with gales of laughter. The only other sources of such extreme hilarity were some of Mark Twain's short pieces. The MAD Files sounds like an absolute must-have for me.

I too was a big MAD magazine fan, it made trips to the grocery store bearable. I would usually have it read on the way home. Insta-buy

Hello! :) Recently, I found those beautiful boxed set editions of Ray Bradbury and Ursula Le Guin that I am sure will be lovely additions to my home library. I want them to last as long as possible – do you think that keeping the shrink wrap on the slipcase (box) would be beneficial?

>129 drizzled:

Hello and welcome! I am not sure. I certainly unwrap the shrink wrap from mine as soon as they arrive. It also makes them much easier to read! :)

>129 drizzled: I have a friend who actively collects books (mostly used) and videos for eventual resale profit. Regarding videos, he says that ones that have never been unwrapped or opened have the best resale value. In many cases, collectors lose all interest in ones with the shrink wrap removed. I haven't a clue about whether that applies to books.

>129 drizzled:
Why would you collect books you don’t intend to read? LOA books will never appreciate in value, because they are always kept in print.

Also, I avoid shrink wrapped books in the secondary market, because I don’t know who shrink wrapped them. Anyone can do it with a few inexpensive supplies from Office Depot. I used to receive a few that had clearly been opened — fingerprints, etc.

>130 kcshankd: >132 jroger1:
What I meant was keeping the shrink wrap around the external box (to protect it from the dust and other stuff), removing it on the front and of course reading the books! But I guess it might be stupid, haha!

>133 drizzled:

The Library of America will sell you replacement dustjackets and/or slip cases. I wouldn't worry about it.

>133 drizzled:

But then, I am comfortable with dinged-up edges and scuffs. If it makes you feel better, go for it!

LOA's recent announcement of their Fall 2024 releases is reflected below. There are some date changes to previously announced volumes. Books from the previous list already in general release have been removed.

Main Series Volumes

02/20/2024-----Ursula K. Le Guin: Five Novels ⁽¹⁾
02/27/2024-----Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings
03/12/2024-----Hellen Keller: Autobiographies & Other Writings
04/02/2024-----Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle
05/07/2024-----Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 ⁽²⁾
07/16/2024-----Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories ⁽³⁾
09/03/2024-----Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology
09/17/2024-----Ernest J. Gaines: Four Novels ⁽⁴⁾
10/01/2024-----Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms & Other Writings 1927-1932
Nov. 2024----World War II Memoirs: The European Theater
Nov. 2024----Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings

Special Edition

03/05/2024-----Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart

Paperbacks

04/09/2024-----S. J. Perelman: Crazy Like a Fox ⁽⁶⁾
04/09/2024-----S. J. Perelman: Cloudland Revisited: A Misspent Youth in books and Film ⁽⁶⁾
09/03/2024-----The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America’s Brain
10/08/2024-----Hannah Arendt and Henry David Thoreau: On Civil Disobedience

Paperback Reprints of American Poets Project Hardbacks

11/12/2024-----Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics
Nov. 2024----Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems
Nov. 2024----Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems

Boxed Sets

06/25/2024-----The James Baldwin Collection (3-volumes)
Nov. 2024----The Joan Didion Collection (3-volumes)

---

Notes

¹ The Lathe of Heaven, The Eye of the Heron, The Beginning Place, Searoad, Lavinia

² The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins

³ The Postwar Years, The Memory of Old Jack, Remembering, Stories

⁴ The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, In My Father's House, A Gathering of Old Men, A Lesson Before Dying

⁵ A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, Letters

⁶ A Kindle edition will become available on the same date.

>136 Podras.: thank you!

I hadn't realized the new Le Guin was quite so imminent! I still need to pick up the Joanna Russ collection.

I neglected to mention that LOA's members and subscribers web page is currently accepting orders for the Le Guin, Breslin, Keller, Jim Crow, and Percy main-series volumes. The Perelman and Frost volumes are being offered, too.

LARB ran a nice piece by Brian Attebery, editor of the recently released Le Guin collection (and most of the other ones), about the insights he obtained from the process: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/through-a-hernes-eye-on-ursula-k-le-guins-fi...