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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Reginald Scot's 1584 book, "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" is one of the most influential books on magic ever published. The Library of Congress has a first edition.
Posted in: Books, Rare Book and Special Collections, Shakespeare
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The backstory of how "The Postman Rings Twice," one of the most famous titles in 20th century American literature, got its curious title.
Posted in: Books, Crime and Punishment, LCM, Manuscripts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A peek inside the Truman Capote's notebooks for "In Cold Blood" that are in the Library's collections.
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Guy Lamolinara of the Library’s Center for the Book. The loss of the incomparable writer Toni Morrison leaves a gaping hole in the literary landscape. Fortunately for us, before she died on Monday, she filled the world with prose that touched millions of readers worldwide. Through her novels, children’s …
Posted in: Books, National Book Festival
Posted by: Neely Tucker
"Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists," a lavishly illustrated study of the field written by Library curator Martha H. Kennedy, won the 2019 Eisner Award for the Best Comics-Related Book at San Diego's Comic-Con International this weekend. It was published by Library in association with the University of Mississippi Press.
Posted in: Books, Exhibitions, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The papers of Jim Bouton, the former Major League pitcher whose 1970 memoir, "Ball Four," became one of the most celebrated American books of the 20th Century, are now at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Baseball, Books, Manuscripts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Tracy K. Smith concluded her remarkable term as U.S. Poet Laureate with a speech and on-stage conversation at the Library of Congress Monday night, capping two years of travel, podcasts and community conversations across the nation.
Posted in: Books, Events, Thomas Jefferson Building
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Aisha Karefa-Smart, James Baldwin’s niece, reads from a recently released edition of “Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood,” the only children’s book Baldwin wrote, at a Library of Congress panel discussion on Feb. 28, 2019. Karefa-Smart, a D.C.-based author, wrote the book’s afterword. The book was originally written in 1971, when Baldwin was …
Posted in: Books, Events, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This post is republished from the January–February issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The entire issue is available online. In his classic novel “Native Son,” Richard Wright tells the story of a poverty-stricken young black man who takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family in Chicago, accidentally kills the daughter …