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I'm a longtime subscriber to this great series, and they just announced the next wave of books to be published, including a couple volumes of film criticism:

JAMES AGEE—Fall 2005

- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction

- Film Writing & Selected Journalism

AMERICAN POETRY:

17th & 18th Centuries—2006

RICHARD HENRY DATA, JR.:

- Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages—Fall 2005

HENRY JAMES:

- Novels 1901-1902—Spring 2006

ARTHUR MILLER:

Plays 1944-1961—Spring 2006

PHILIP ROTH

Novels & Stories 1959-1962—Fall 2005

Novels 1967-1972—Fall 2005

AMERICAN FILM CRITICS—2006

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I love the LOAs too, and the Civil Rights volumes are high on my "to-get" list. Will second MusicalMarine's picks (though I don't yet have the WWII titles); the Hammetts and Crime Novels are great as well. Some other faves:

John Dos Passos, U.S.A. (I've gotten the two recent DPs but haven't read them yet)

Flannery O'Connor. In a big way; one of the best in the series.

The Melville Tales with PIERRE and "Benito Cereno" in it.

James Baldwin, both EARLY NOVELS AND STORIES and COLLECTED ESSAYS.

W.E.B. Du Bois, WRITINGS.

The Emerson volume of essays.

Both Hurstons.

Sinclair Lewis, MAIN STREET AND BABBITT.

Richard Wright, EARLY WORKS.

A bunch of others that I have but haven't read yet... yeah, it's a great series.

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Reading the 'Reporting World War II' and 'Reporting Civil Rights' volumes are amazing experiences, completely different from reading a history book. There's a sense of the unknown in reading articles written in the midst of turmoil, in which no one knows how things are going to turn out. That quality is mostly missing in other history books, in which the author already knows how things end up.

My faves in the series, besides the above, are the Crime Novels of the 30's, 40's and 50's, and the collection of stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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