April 27, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingA newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson In the midst of research for The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door exhibition, my former colleague Molly Schwartzburg alerted me to an unpublished manuscript she had located in the collection of writer and editor Christopher Morley (known today for his novel Parnassus on Wheels and his work on the editorial board… read more
April 25, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Theatre + Performing ArtsBiographer B. Alexandra Szerlip on Norman Bel Geddes’s life and legacy Norman Bel Geddes was one of the great visionaries of the twentieth century. An industrial designer, known best for his contribution to the Futurama exhibition at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, Bel Geddes experimented with
April 4, 2017, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsHow a sun hat, an address book, and a character outline enhance Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter “It has been said that loneliness is the great American malady. What is the nature of this loneliness? It would seem essentially to be a quest for identity.”—Carson McCullers’s essay “The Nature of Loneliness”
