The William Gaddis Centenary Conference For three days in October, scholars, writers, artists, musicians, publishers, curators, and fans gathered in person and online to celebrate...
Gaddis Conference Schedule Now Available The William Gaddis Centenary Conference titled Beyond the “Very Small Audience”: Centenary, Archive, and Futures, will take place at Washington...
David Wagoner, 1926-2021 Last December we lost poet David Wagoner, whose literary papers were among the Modern Literature Collection’s earliest and most recent...
Finding James Merrill in the Archive Alex Mouw is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in the Program...
Call for Papers for William Gaddis Centenary Conference On October 20-22, 2022, Washington University Libraries will host Beyond the ‘Very Small Audience’: Centenary, Archive, and Futures, a conference...
Preview of the Charles Johnson Papers We are thrilled to be adding the Charles Johnson Papers to the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections and to...
“Lunacy and Organization” in the William Gaddis Papers, Part 3 In celebration of the new editions of William Gaddis’s first two novels, The Recognitions and J R, both published by NYRB Classics, we...
Tim Youd: Select Drawings for Washington University’s Modern Literature Collection As I type this blog post on my computer keyboard, I hear the “click-clack” sounds of Tim Youd retyping on...
“Lunacy and Organization” in the William Gaddis Papers, Part 2 In celebration of the new editions of William Gaddis’s first two novels, The Recognitions and J R, both published by NYRB Classics, we...
“Lunacy and Organization” in the William Gaddis Papers, Part 1 In celebration of the new editions of William Gaddis’s first two novels, The Recognitions and J R, both published by NYRB Classics, we...
25th Anniversary of The Tunnel This year marks a quarter-century since William Gass’s long-awaited tome, The Tunnel, was published by Knopf. In 1995, after nearly...
Connecting Contexts: The Modern Literature Collection and The Letters of Samuel Beckett We are pleased to present Connecting Contexts: The Modern Literature Collection and The Letters of Samuel Beckett, a new digital...