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A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

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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of research for The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door exhibition, my former colleague Molly Schwartzburg alerted me to an unpublished manuscript she had located in the collection of writer and editor Christopher Morley (known today for his novel Parnassus on Wheels and his work on the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 of the Book-of-the-Month Club). [Read more…] about A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

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

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“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”

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I shout for a flower

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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 [Read more…] about I shout for a flower

Handel’s famous 1727 coronation anthems get the royal treatment

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Justine Provino is a recent graduate of the Master of Conservation of Cultural Heritage program at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, in the Book and Paper Department with Professor Claude Laroque. From October 2014 through February 2015 she worked as an intern in the Ransom Center’s book lab with Senior Conservator Olivia Primanis, and in the paper lab with Conservator Heather Hamilton. [Read more…] about Handel’s famous 1727 coronation anthems get the royal treatment

ESCUCHE: A Gabriel García Márquez en su discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel

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Originario de Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez inició su carrera como periodista en la década de 1940, reportando desde Bogotá y Cartagena, y posteriormente como corresponsal internacional en Europa y Cuba. En 1961, se trasladó a la Ciudad de México. Junto con su prolífica carrera [Read more…] about ESCUCHE: A Gabriel García Márquez en su discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel