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...that their vocation requires them to be as intimate with words as a carpenter with wood. It is the most immediate pleasure of a reading, the way the sound of an instrument pleases more immediately than the composer’s melody. I remember, when Simon Armitage read in Houghton Library earlier this semester, sitting in rapt attention to a repetitive poem (that I would have probably rushed through had I been reading it) simply by virtue the sound of his voice. I ended up savoring the repetition because he recited it so beautifully. Seamus Heaney’s reading...
These letters form part of the Houghton Library’s Oct. 7, 2009 acquisition of the John Updike archive, which comprises approximately 1,500 books and a host of his manuscripts...
Some advice for aspiring writers: if you anticipate your work being purchased en masse one day by the Houghton Library, have a mother who loves you. Or at least a mother like John Updike’s ’54, who compiles and binds your letters to be stored until the end of days...
Leslie A. Morris, the curator of modern books and manuscripts at Houghton Library, says the archive has exciting implication for Updike scholars, as news of two unpublished Updike novels, slated to come out in twenty years, have already been guaranteed to the Library for study. “There will be a lot of surprises, I’m sure,” she says...
Minimum fine, up from $75, for all lost library books and materials in the Harvard College Library, which includes Widener, Lamont, and Houghton. A new $10 “non-refundable billing fee” will also be added per item...