In skelebration of the spookiest time of the year, the Library displays a selection of ghoulishly good reads from its Main collection. Browsing the hallowed stacks, you can find American canonical classics like The Turn of the Screw by Henry James; The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson; and
While Halloween isn’t until the end of the month, the Southampton library spares no time to decorate for the season. Southampton Library Supervisor, Nicki Loder, created two book displays to help celebrate the month of October. Need a scary read? Check out the suggestion display full of Spooky Stories, Gruesome
From his original rough draft of a manuscript to the trowel he used for laying bricks, students in Professor Simone Brioni’s EGL 301 class of English majors visited Special Collections on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 and conducted research using one-of-a-kind, rare primary sources from the Pietro di Donato Collection. During
Join us on Friday, May 3 at this symposium exploring Walt Whitman’s impact on literature, music, and the visual arts. The event will culminate with a lecture and performance featuring 2018 MacArthur Fellow Matthew Aucoin, composer and writer of the opera Crossing, based on Whitman’s Civil War writings. Leading American
The Hotel, Elizabeth Bowen There are many literary classics nestled in the Southampton stacks awaiting the attention of a devoted reader. Tomes from Poe, Melville, Dickinson, Conrad lurk about, all of which we shall hopefully explore at a date currently unforeseen. For today belongs to Elizabeth Bowen. Her works, particularly
April is National Poetry Month! In celebration, Special Collections is featuring several of its distinctive archives of poets ranging from manuscript drafts to published books. All are welcome to explore these unique literary works that celebrate “poetry’s vital place in our culture.” Join us on Tuesday, April 10 at 4pm
March 11-17, 2018 is Patient Safety Awareness Week. This special event helps bring awareness to issues in patient safety. Patient safety is not only relevant to healthcare providers, but includes the general public as well, since we are all patients at some point in time. The Stony Brook Health
Many thanks to Arielle Hessler of the SBU Libraries Preservation Department for her workshop on How to Make a Chapbook held at the Southampton campus library on September 27th. Chapbooks are the literary DIY project of choice and the results, following Arielle’s detailed instructions, can be exquisite. Judging from the
If you ever get a chance to see Charles Riley speak, take it. The author of Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism captivated the audience at the SBU Southampton Library’s second Art in Focus lecture on September 26th. His fast-paced and wide-ranging talk captured the cultural and literary
Learn about the history and artistry of early Long Island gravestones (1680-1801) through the Richard F. Welch Collection. Comprised of hundreds of photographs, negatives, and research notes, the collection documents gravestones, stone carvers, symbols, cemeteries, and people that lived from Brooklyn to the east end of the island, beginning in
