William H. Gass Centenary Celebration On October 3, 2024, WashU Libraries hosted a centenary celebration of William H. Gass (1924–2017), an esteemed writer, distinguished professor...
Stanley Elkin’s “Wall of Respect” In the summer of 2022, Special Collections acquired a substantial amount of books, papers, artwork, and more that belonged to...
Eugene O’Neill Symposium and the Harley Hammerman Collection Grand Opening On Friday, October 6, 2023 University Libraries hosted a one-day symposium to officially open the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene...
New Grant to Preserve Born-Digital Poetry The Washington University Libraries were awarded a two-year grant by the Mellon Foundation to support an exploration of essential questions...
A Reading and Conversation with Poet Aaron Coleman On April 3 and 4, Washington University Libraries hosted poet, translator, and Washington University alumnus (MFA ’15, PhD ’21) Aaron...
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...