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    James Laughlin

    James Laughlin (1914–1997) founded New Directions in 1936 while still a student at Harvard. He wrote and compiled more than a dozen books of poetry as well as stories and essays; seven volumes of his correspondence with his authors are available from W.W. Norton. 

     

    James Laughlin

    James Laughlin (1914–1997) founded New Directions in 1936 while still a student at Harvard. He wrote and compiled more than a dozen books of poetry as well as stories and essays; seven volumes of his correspondence with his authors are available from W.W. Norton. 

     

    Books by James Laughlin

    • The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin

      James Laughlin, Tennessee Williams, Peggy Fox, Thomas Keith

      E Book, 2018

      Four decades of correspondence of Tennessee Williams’s and James Laughlin’s unlikely yet enduring literary and personal relationship.

    • The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

      Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart, James Laughlin, Naomi Burton Stone, Amiya Chakravarty

      Paperback, 1975

      "This is quintessential Merton."—The Catholic Review.

    • Christmas Poems

      Albert M. Hayes, James Laughlin

      Paperback, 2008

      Awake the voice! Awake the string!
      Dark and dull night fly hence away,
      And give the honor of this day
      That sees December turned to May.
       —William Herrick

    • The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

      Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart, James Laughlin, Naomi Burton Stone, Amiya Chakravarty

      E Book, 2013

      "This is quintessential Merton."—The Catholic Review.

    • Christmas Poems

      Albert M. Hayes, James Laughlin

      E Book, 2014

      Awake the voice! Awake the string!
      Dark and dull night fly hence away,
      And give the honor of this day
      That sees December turned to May.
       —William Herrick

    • The Life Before Us

      Romain Gary, Ralph Manheim, James Laughlin

      Paperback, 2022

      Now back in print, this heartbreaking novel by Romain Gary has inspired two movies, including the Netflix feature The Life Ahead

    • The Life Before Us

      Romain Gary, Ralph Manheim, James Laughlin

      E Book, 2022

      Now back in print, this heartbreaking novel by Romain Gary has inspired two movies, including the Netflix feature The Life Ahead

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