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Tonight, I signed up for a weekly e-mail that many of you may be interested in receiving: The Library of America’s Story of the Week.
Many of you will likely be familiar with The Library of America (LOA) after having seen their distinctive, black volumes on the shelves at bookstores like Barnes and Noble and Books-a-Million. From the side, the spine of their books are black with a read, white and blue band across the center.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with LOA, it is a nonprofit publishing house and is dedicated to publishing and keeping in print authoriatative editions of America’s best and most significant writing. Best-selling authors published by LOA include James Baldwin, Robert Frost, Dashiell Hammett, Zora Neale Hurston, Thomas Jefferson, H. P. Lovecraft, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Paine, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Walt Whitman.
Given the past quality of LOA’s material, I’m looking forward to receiving its Story of the Week e-mail.
“It could be anything: a short work of fiction, a character sketch, an essay, a journalist's dispatch, a poem,” according to LOA’s Web site. “It could be Stephen Crane's ‘The Black Dog’ or George Jean Nathan's ‘Baiting the Umpire.’ What is certain is that it will be memorable, because every story is from one of the hundreds of classic works of American literature published by The Library of America.”
To sign up for the e-mail, visit http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/ and click “Join Our E-mail List.” It takes less than a minute to sign-up.
Probably because this week marks the start of the pro baseball season, this week’s Story of the Week selection is “Baiting the Umpire” by George Jean Nathan, which is exerpted from LOA’s “Baseball: A Literary Anthology.”
In the end, if you decide to sign up for this e-mail, let me know what you think about some of these featured stories. If nothing else, you’ll be exposed to some great examples of American writing.