Willa Cather, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books including Alexander’s Bridge, O Pioneers!, and My Antonia, has been voted “most-notable Nebraskan” by the state’s Lincoln Journal Star newspaper. Sixty-two years after it first opened in the… Read more »

A lot of ink has been spilled on studies reporting the positive effects of reading fiction. And the news of these groundbreaking studies and their value-of-fiction-affirming results is reported again… Read more »

Because it’s always a good day to think about frontier novelist, American original, and Melville House author Willa Cather, may we recommend that you get yourself a mug of something, grab… Read more »

An advertising campaign for Penguin Random House UK’s “Pocket Penguins” series—which promotes books like The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, and The Secret Agent by Joseph… Read more »

Before his death in July of 1961, Ernest Hemingway wrote a letter to the executors of his estate saying, “It is my wish that none of the letters written by… Read more »

Title: Alexander’s Bridge Author: Willa Cather First published: 1912 Page count: 116 First line: Late on brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking… Read more »

Now that Breaking Bad has wrapped up, people will be waiting to see what Bryan Cranston’s next move is; and one of them, at least, will be to record the… Read more »

Next month, Knopf will publish The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, a collection of correspondence from the notoriously private author of novels such as O Pioneers! and My Antonia, not to mention the novella Alexander’s… Read more »