October 22, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1Thoughts during a pandemic on Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, and what ‘it’ is by JAMES ARNETT “Why was it so hard to see while it was happening that that was what was happening?” —URSULA K. LeGUIN, In and Out [1] “What’s ‘it’–what do you mean by ‘it’?” “O, anything–I mean–you know what I mean.” —VIRGINIA WOOLF, Kew Gardens typescript The walls have closed… read more
October 22, 2019, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsCelebrating 100 years of Doris Lessing Nobel Prize–winning author Doris Lessing was born one hundred years ago, on October 22, 1919.
December 9, 2015, Filed Under: Research + TeachingCommitment to collecting Going back to the origins of research libraries, there is a long history of scholars building collections to suit personal interests, constructing around themselves an athenaeum of books that supported their individual research goals.
