Writers & Libraries

 Dan Bouk. Democracy's Data the Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them .  Ferrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. I had read ab...

 Katherine Coles, "The Stranger I Become: on Walking, Looking and Writing",  Turtle Point Press, 2021. The author gratefully ackno...

  Alan Yuhas, Yale Says Its Vinland Map, Once Called a Medieval Treasure, is Fake, New York Times,  Sept. 30, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/...

 Sue Monk Kidd, "The Invention of Wings," Penguin Books,  2014.  Acknowledgements ... The following institutions, which along with...

 David Gessner, Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the age of Crisis . Torrey House Press, 2021. If  you look at ...

 Zak Podmore, "Ken Sleight, an inspiration for ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang,’ loses personal archive in Utah wildfire" Salt Lake Tribun...

Lesley Wroughton "South Africa wildfire burns University of Cape Town, library of African antiquities", Washington Post , April 19...

 Roslyn Sulcas "Mary Ellen Moylan, Acclaimed  Balanchine Dancer, Is Dead at 94" New York Times April 14, 2021 https://www.nytimes....

J.D. Biersdorfer. "How to Dig Up Family History Online." New York Times. June 25, 2020, p. B7. While not all government records m...

Maria Cramer, "The Love Song of T.S. Eliot," New York Times , January 6, 2020, p. C3.    As planned, his estate released the sta...

Jennifer Schuessler, “Robert Caro’s Papers Find a Home,” N ew York Times , January 9, 2020, p. C1.       The books are already monumental...

Katherine Q. Seelye, “Barbara Testa Dies at 91: A Discovery in Her Attic Rocked the Literary World,” (Obituaries) New York Times , January ...

Jenifer Schuessler, "One Elf's Path: Turning Satire Into a Legacy, New York Times , p. C1.      Now [David] Sedaris has sold his ...

Margalit Fox, " Lee Israel, a Writer Proudest of Her Literary Forgeries, Dies at 75 ," New York Times ,  Jan 27, 2015, [online]. ...

Michael Cooper, "When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered," New York Times, November 18, 2018, p. AR15-. The Met Opera's archiv...

Giovanni Russonello, "Armstrong's Life, as He Saw It: The Musician Kept an Archive of Materials to Document His Career.  Now the Co...

Evan Kindley, "Before the Law: Kafka's Afterlives," The Nation ,v.307 no. 10, Oct. 29, 2018,  p.27-31. When Hoffe died in 2...

Jim Dwyer, "A Tasting Menu of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry: An Exhibition Offers an Archive of a Productive Literary Life,"  New York T...

Jeffrey Friedman, “Discovery, Interrupted: How World War I Delayed a Treatment for Diabetes and Derailed one Man’s Chance for Immortality,...

Adam Nossiter, "A Famous Nude gets a Face and an Identity: Historian Solves Mystery of a Gustave Courbet Painting," New York Times...