January 13, 2016, Filed Under: PhotographyDavid Douglas Duncan at 100: A month of tributes to David Douglas Duncan in honor of his 100th birthday—Part 2 In the second installment of our tribute to David Douglas Duncan in the month of his 100th birthday, Michael Gilmore, Visual Materials Assistant, discusses a photograph of his father taken by Duncan during the Korean War.
February 25, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Film, Research + TeachingStanley et Anthony: A correspondence between Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess On the surface, it is a correspondence between friends: Did you read the book I sent? Did you like it? Generic questions for most, perhaps, but the inquiry was from Stanley Kubrick, and the questions concerning Arthur Schnitzler’s book Traumnovelle were addressed to Anthony Burgess. A series of letters… read more
August 22, 2013, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsBook annotations document scuffle between Ernest Hemingway and Max Eastman Ernest Hemingway, on his way to cover the civil war in Spain, stops in New York for a couple of days and drops in at Charles Scribner’s Sons publishing house. He wants to touch base with editor Max Perkins. Hemingway’s arrival is unannounced, and another writer, Max Eastman, is in… read more
