August 8, 2024, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsUNTIL AUGUST: A NOVEL by Gabriel García Márquez Excerpt from UNTIL AUGUST: A NOVEL by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Anne McLean, translation copyright © 2024 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House… read more
May 22, 2024, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsJ. M. Coetzee’s Garden of Creation by HERMANN WITTENBERG Important additions to the Coetzee Papers shed light on the author’s recent writing Working in a literary archive can be a remarkable experience, like being present in a garden of creation. When reading through the early manuscript versions of novels, one can encounter a textual labyrinth of… read more
May 13, 2024, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, PhotographyConservation: The Clarkson Stanfield Album by ANDREA KNOWLTON Photographic albums are complex book structures with unique weaknesses and vulnerabilities. To make the Clarkson Stanfield Album, the photographs were adhered to individual leaves of paper, which were then hinged and nested together into sections that could be sewn together into a traditional book structure. Even with… read more
