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...
Category: Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection
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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... -
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...