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Remake The Gate: Who are the most essential American writers of the last 75 years?
If you know Brooklyn, you know the beautiful golden entryway that welcomes you to Central Library. Our distinctive facade features a gate with 15 characters from American literature that were considered canonical at the time the library opened in 1941.
Weâre celebrating 75 years of Central Library this year, and while our golden gates are as beautiful as ever, American literature has changed a great deal since they were erected. Weâll always love our gate with its historical flourishes and quirky characters, but weâre curiousâwho do you think are the most essential American writers in the last 75 years? Who would you put on the gates, if we were building Central Library today?
Weâre asking you to vote on 15 new authors, playwrights and poets whose work was created over the last 75 years. The writers that receive the most vote submissions will have their characters represented in an illustrated version of a new gate. Click here to cast your vote, and share your own nominations in the comments!
What are your thoughts?
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from the anthology of concrete poetry
Unique Bookstore in China Offers Optical Illusion Experience of Endless Halls of Books
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Still deciding what to bring on your trip for the long weekend? The New York Times book critics have a bevy of suggestions for you, including some buzzy new novels and some old favorites, like The Master and Margarita and Jane Eyre. For your trendy summer reads, remember that a  Classic never goes out of style.
Whatâs on your summer reading list?
100 Must-Read Works of Southern Literature
Sure, youâve read To Kill a Mockingbird, and yeah⊠that Faulkner guy was from Mississippi (letâs face it, Faulknerâs words ainât easy on the brain). But what else is there?
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place â Harry Crews
A Confederacy of Dunces â John Kennedy Toole
A Death in the Family â James Agee
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn â Mark Twain
Airships â Barry Hannah
A Land More Kind Than Home â Wiley Cash
A Lesson Before Dying â Ernest Gaines
All Over But the Shoutinâ â Rick Bragg
All the Kingâs Men â Robert Penn Warren
Apostles of Light â Ellen Douglas
As I Lay Dying â William Faulkner
A Streetcar Named Desire â Tennessee Williams
A Time to Kill â John Grisham
The Awakening â Kate Chopin
Bastard Out of Carolina â Dorothy Allison
Bats Out of Hell â Barry Hannah
Big Bad Love â Larry Brown
Black Boy â Richard Wright
Blues All Around Me â B.B. King
Brother to a Dragonfly â Will Campbell
Burning Bright: Stories â Ron Rash
Before Women Had Wings â Connie May Fowler
Blood Meridian â Cormac McCarthy
Canât Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters â Robert Gordon
Child of God â Cormac McCarthy
The Civil War: A Narrative (I-III)Â â Shelby Foote
Cold Mountain â Charles Frazier
Cold Sassy Tree â Olive Ann Burns
*The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty â Eudora Welty
The Color Purple â Alice Walker
The Complete Stories â Flannery OâConnor
The Courting of Marcus Dupree â Willie Morris
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter â Tom Franklin
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man â Fannie Flagg
Deep Blues â Robert Palmer
Deliverance â James Dickey
Delta Wedding â Eudora Welty
Ellen Foster â Kaye Gibbons
The End of California â Steve Yarbrough
Every Day By the Sun â Dean Faulkner Wells
The Fall of the House of Zeus â Curtis Wilkie
Father of the Blues â W. C. Handy
Fire in the Morning â Elizabeth Spencer
Geronimo Rex â Barry Hannah
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues â William Ferris
Gone with the Wind â Margaret Mitchell
The Great Santini â Pat Conroy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter â Carson McCullers
Hell at the Breech â Tom Franklin
House of Prayer No. 2Â â Mark Richard
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down â William Gay
It Wasnât All Dancing and Other Stories â Mary Ward Brown
Joe â Larry Brown
The Keepers of the House â Shirley Ann Grau
The Kitchen House â Kathleen Grissom
Known World â Edward P Jones
Lanterns on the Levee â William Alexander Percy
The Last Gentleman â Walker Percy
The Last Girls â Lee Smith
The Last of the Southern Girls â Willie Morris
Light in August â William Faulkner
The Little Friend â Donna Tartt
Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South â Roy Blount Jr.
Look Homeward, Angel â Thomas Wolfe
The Mind of the South â W.J. Cash
The Moviegoer â Walker Percy
Mudbound â Hillary Jordan
The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure â Jack Pendarvis
Native Guard â Natasha Tretheway
North Toward Home â Willie Morris
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All â Allan Gurganus
Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored â Clifton Taulbert
One Foot in Eden â Ron Rash
One Mississippi â Mark Childress
The Optimistâs Daughter â Eudora Welty
Other Voices, Other Rooms â Truman Capote
Poachers â Tom Franklin
The Prince of Tides â Pat Conroy
Provinces of Night â William Gay
The Quiet Game â Greg Iles
Raney â Clyde Edgerton
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927Â â John Barry
Run with the Horseman â Ferrol Sams
Salvage the Bones â Jesmyn Ward
Salvation on Sand Mountain â Dennis Covington
The Secret Life of Bees â Sue Monk Kidd
Serena â Ron Rash
The Sharpshooter Blues â Lewis Nordan
Shiloh and Other Stories â Bobbie Ann Mason
The Sound and the Fury â William Faulkner
Southern Belly: A Food Loverâs Companion â John T. Edge
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom â Peter Guralnick
Their Eyes Were Watching God â Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird â Harper Lee
Victory Over Japan â Ellen Gilchrist
Walking Across Egypt â Clyde Edgerton
Welding with Children â Tim Gautreaux
Wise Blood â Flannery OâConnor
Work Shirts for Madmen â George Singleton
Zeitoun â Dave Eggers
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Stories can start revolutions.
The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell (via prettybooks)
âFates And Furiesâ Offers A Tour-De-Force Plot, Minus Compelling Characters
Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan writes:
âFor a medium-sized novel that focuses in tightly on two characters and their over-twenty-year-marriage, Fates and Furies vacuum packs so many complex narratives between its covers that you feel like youâre reading one of those plot-heavy Victorian doorstoppers. Â And, not only does Lauren Groff tell a multitude of stories, but she does so through a variety of genres. Â What starts off as a fairly realistic novel about domestic life digresses into chapters that read like plays and eventually morphs into a dark fairy tale that also borrows heavily from the conventions of the classic psychological suspense story. Â Wow. Despite the reservation I have about Fates and Furies (and more on that later), it is a marvel of language and design.â
Favorite books of 2015. Whatâs yours?
âFor some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.âÂ
â Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Fictional characters areâŠyour creationsâso theyâll do whatever you want them to do and be whatever you want them to be. Still, you donât always know exactly what that is when you first conceive of them. And sometimes they do change. I wouldnât say they surprise you, but your idea of them certainly changes as you go along.
Mary Gaitskill (The Atlantic, 2015)
Some great tips on writing setting
Why Iâm not getting any writing done on my so-called novel.
The Stages of Writing a Book
Happy Halloween from your friendly (spooky!) neighborhood library.