manuscript

April 27, 2017 - Danielle Sigler

A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: A Wild Plaint, A. K. White, African American Review, African-American, Aubrey Grey, Chicago, Christopher Morley, Danielle Brune Sigler, diary, Doubleday, Fenton Johnson, fiction, manuscript, novel, poet, poetry

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of research for The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door exhibition, my former colleague Molly Schwartzburg alerted me to an unpublished manuscript she had located in the collection of writer and editor Christopher Morley (known today for his novel Parnassus on Wheels and his work on the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 4, 2017 - Christine Lee

How a sun hat, an address book, and a character outline enhance Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: book club, Carson McCullers, Christine Lee, collections, Lisa Pulsifer, literature, manuscript, member, Membership, novels, Tennessee Williams, 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”

March 21, 2017 - Jullianne Ballou

I shout for a flower

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections Tagged With: archive, autograph, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, digitized, doodle, drawings, flower, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jullianne Ballou, manuscript, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Plinio Mendoza, Sharing Gabo with the World

An undeniable source of pleasure in archives is the appearance of a writer’s doodles in the margins of books and manuscripts. As we’ve digitized García Márquez’s papers for his online archive