American Literature

Giancarlo DiTrapano, avant-garde publisher and founder of New York Tyrant, dies at 47

Releases from what became New York Tyrant ranged from a book of photographs of Iggy Pop to Scott McClanahan’s raw The Sarah Book and Marie Calloway’s what purpose did i serve in your life, a work so explicit that a printing company refused to produce copies of it.

Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Brokeback Mountain screenwriter, passes away at 84

McMurtry, who had in his later years split his time between his small Texas hometown of Archer City and Tucson, Arizona, wrote dozens of books, including novels, biographies and essay collections.

Da Chen, author of critically acclaimed memoir Colors of the Mountain, passes away at 57

Da Chen, the brilliant storyteller who drew from the hardships he suffered as a persecuted child growing up in the midst of China’s cultural revolution to create the critically acclaimed memoir Colors of the Mountain, has died at age 57.

Toni Morrison's therapeutic radicalism imbued her writing with a timbre that resonates across time and place

Toni Morrison’s prose is also an engagement with the ways in which the erosion of language, autonomy, tradition, and community has profound implications for the psychological lives of black subjects

Toni Morrison, a giant of American literature, perfected a confluence of lyricism and no-nonsense truthtelling

Beloved, Jazz and 1997’s Paradise form Toni Morrison’s ‘black history’ trilogy, and are basically required reading for students of American literature.

'Ragtime' and 'The March' author EL Doctorow dies in New York aged 84

EL Doctorow, a leading figure in contemporary American literature whose works include Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and The March, has died at age 84, his publisher said on Tuesday.