Index 9
Lazarre (character family), 225
Leaf and the Cloud, The, 65, 127
Leave It to Me, 65
Leaving Yuba City, 61
Lebanese Americans, 59
Lebanon, 36, 114
lê thi diêm thúy, 141
Lee (character), 324
Lee, Li-Young, 264–269
Left Hand of Darkness, The, 64
legend, 219
Legend of La Llorona, The, 75
Legends!, 46
Legs Diamond, 44
Le Guin, Ursula K., 51, 64, 70
Lehman, David, 118
Lenore Marshall/Nation Award, 315
Leonard, Ruth (character), 336
lesbianism, 5, 9, 14, 39, 60, 314
Leslie, Mary Virginia, 329
Lessing, Doris, 243
Lesson, The, 24
Lesson before Dying, A, 232
Less than Zero, 14
Let Me Down Easy, 27
LETTERS, 137
Letters from Cuba, 45
Letter to My Daughter, 160
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, 26, 33
Letts, Tracy, 40, 46
Levene (character), 271
Leventhal, Melvyn (Mel) Rosenman,
343
Leventhal, Rebecca Grant, 343
Levertov, Denise, 64, 139, 147
Levine, Paul, 213
Levitation: Five Fictions, 65
Levitt, Morris, 283
Lewinsky, Monica, 11, 14
Liar’s Club, The, 63
Libra, 198
Library of America, 176
Library of Congress, 193, 303
Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National
Prize for Poetry, 237
Licks of Love, 336
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,
Gentleman, The, 132, 372
Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems,
1962–1995, 114
Life of David, The, 302
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a
White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black,
27, 35
Life So Far: A Memoir, 62
Life Studies, 126
Light around the Body, The, 145
Lilia (character), 259
Lilley, James D., 277
Lily Dale, 45
Lime Orchard Woman, The, 127
Lincoln (character), 37
Lincoln, Kenneth, 104
Lincoln Medal, 160
Linden Hills, 34, 65
Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972–1995,
The, 127
Lion King, The, 37
Lips Together, Teeth Apart, 39
Lish, Gordon, 5, 175–176
Lit, 63
“Literature of Exhaustion, The,” 130,
284
“Literature of Replenishment, The,”
130
“Literature of Their Own, A,” 50
“Little,” 116
Little Boy (character), 212
“Little Dog Laughed, The,” 43
Little Havana, 44
“Little Me,” 48
“Little Miracles, Kept Promises,”
131
“Little More about Me, A,” 63
“Little Snow, A,” 44
“Live or Die,” 127
“Lives of the Heart, The,” 125
“Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a
Novella,” 213
“Locked Room, The,” 137
Lofton, Ramona (Sapphire), 25, 34
“Logorrhea,” 115
London, Jack, 207
“Lonely Coast, A,” 308
“Lonely Planet,” 39
“Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in
Heaven, The,” 153, 158
Lone Star, 36
Long Christmas Ride Home, The, 48
Long Division: A Tribal History, 116