In honor of August being Art Appreciation Month, The Meaning of Art by Herbert Read is our featured book for this month. One of the greatest art critics in Britain to specialize in abstract art of the early and mid-20th century, Herbert Read won ...
By Rachel Coker n The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner weaves a story that feels at once perfectly realistic and like a legend borrowed from another era. The novel, published this month by W.W. Norton, arrives just three years after Zentner’s critically ...
To celebrate LGBT Pride Month, Special Collections’ featured book for June is The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day edited by Byrne R.S. Fone. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to the poems of Allen ...
Dr. Sandro Sticca’s FRE 362 class visited BU’s Special Collections on April 10, 2014, where they looked at 15th-17th century French, Italian, and Latin manuscripts and printed materials. ...
Foolish Rabbit’s Big Mistake by Rafe Martin and illustrated by Ed Young. G.P. Putnam’s Sons: New York. 1985. Rafe Martin is a professional storyteller. He is also the author of over 20 books that have been translated into many languages including ...
BOOK LAUNCH AND POETRY READING Featuring Maria Mazziotti Gillan RiverRead Bookstore │ 5 Court Street, Binghamton, NY 13901 Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP, the 2011 Barnes & ...
Heidi MacDonald discusses the progress of the graphic novel after the successes of the two groundbreaking works from the end of the last century, “Maus” and “Watchmen.” Heidi MacDonald is an American writer and editor in the field of comic books ...
Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories by Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the Special Collections Featured Book for this month. This book combines Gillan’s personal story about her journey as a writer ...
Sometime in the fourteen-sixties, a private Christian devotional was produced in northern France. Its pages were expertly calligraphed, embellished with gold leaf, and decorated with sprays of blue acanthus, pheasants, swans, peacocks, and dancing villagers. There were seventeen full-page Biblical ...
New Year Blues is contains two works by the poet Allen Ginsberg: “Christmas Blues” and “Macdougal Street Blues.” Ginsberg notes that “these are first experiment blues lyrics, one written waiting turn in St. Marks Church Xmas open poetry reading, & ...