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NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Anoushka Alexander-Rose
By Julie Carlsen, Assistant Curator, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | June 29, 2022Read about one researcher's deep-dive into the Vladimir Nabokov papers inNYPL's Berg Collection.Intimate Abstraction: New York School Coterie and Hybrid Form
By Frances Lazare, NYPL Short-Term Fellow | June 29, 2022Short-Term Fellow Frances Lazare discusses her research in the Berg Collection.Tribute to an Afrofuturist Deity: Schomburg Center Artist & Educator M. Scott Johnson Exhibits at 59th Venice Biennale
By Lisa Herndon, Managers, Schomburg Communications and Publicity | June 28, 2022Schomburg Center educator M. Scott Johnson created a triptych inspired by the Center's collections for the 59th Venice Biennale.Get Lost in The Archives of Sexuality and Gender
By Mia Bruner, Librarian III, Instruction and Outreach | June 24, 2022The Archives of Sexuality and Gender is a fantastic database for exploring queer history and LGBTQIA2S+ community archives since 1940s.Doc Chat Episode Fifty-Four: Exploring 125 Years of the Forverts, New York City's Legendary Yiddish Newspaper
By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | June 17, 2022Explore the pages of one of the most important Yiddish newspapers in the world.NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Ada Calhoun
By NYPL Staff | June 17, 2022Calhoun is the author of the new memoir Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me.The Transatlantic Value of Victorian Novelists’ Manuscripts
By Lucy Whitehead, NYPL Short-Term Fellow | June 16, 2022Short-term fellow Lucy Whitehead discusses her research in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.Kenneth Koch's War
By Emily Setina and Susannah Hollister, NYPL Short-Term Fellows | June 10, 2022Short-term fellows Emily Setina and Susannah Hollister discuss their work on a biography in progress of U.S. poet Kenneth Koch.Work/Cited Episode 16: Rewriting Photobook History to Include Women
By Meredith Mann, Specialist II | June 8, 2022A discussion between Russet Lederman and NYPL's Elizabeth Cronin on women's involvement in the history of the photographic book.Doc Chat Fifty-Two: Friendship & Masculinity Through the Lens of a 19th-century Black Photographer
By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | June 6, 2022An in-depth examination of friendship, race, and masculinity through one 19th-century portrait.