Category: Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection

The William Gaddis Centenary Conference titled Beyond the “Very Small Audience”: Centenary, Archive, and Futures, will take place at Washington...

Last December we lost poet David Wagoner, whose literary papers were among the Modern Literature Collection’s earliest and most recent...

Alex Mouw is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in the Program...

On October 20-22, 2022, Washington University Libraries will host Beyond the ‘Very Small Audience’: Centenary, Archive, and Futures, a conference...

We are thrilled to be adding the Charles Johnson Papers to the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections and to...

In celebration of the new editions of William Gaddis’s first two novels, The Recognitions and J R, both published by NYRB Classics, we...

As I type this blog post on my computer keyboard, I hear the “click-clack” sounds of Tim Youd retyping on...

In celebration of the new editions of William Gaddis’s first two novels, The Recognitions and J R, both published by NYRB Classics, we...

In celebration of the new editions of William Gaddis’s first two novels, The Recognitions and J R, both published by NYRB Classics, we...

This year marks a quarter-century since William Gass’s long-awaited tome, The Tunnel, was published by Knopf. In 1995, after nearly...

We are pleased to present Connecting Contexts: The Modern Literature Collection and The Letters of Samuel Beckett, a new digital...

In addition to writers’ personal and professional papers, the Modern Literature Collection also consists of archives of small literary presses...