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A recap of our memorable two days with Aaron Coleman last month! @WUSTLlibraries @MFA_WUSTL @WUSTL_English @WUSTLArtSci library.wustl.edu/news/a-reading…

Beautiful feature on Aaron Coleman and his legacy here, with pictures from his recent visit to campus and quotes from his reading and conversation @WUSTLlibraries instagram.com/p/CrRVW46vOa3/…

I know he doesn't tweet, but congratulations to Steven Moore on the release of the new ed. of The Letters of William Gaddis, which includes several letters to his friend William Gass @WUSTLModLitColl @WUSTLlibraries

April is National Poetry Month. Celebrate by reading poems by #WashU-affiliated poets, two of whom have donated their papers to our @WUSTLModLitColl. artsci.wustl.edu/ampersand/five…

A #video from the road about #Shakespeare Day @WUSTLlibraries @WUSTLModLitColl for my @LindenwoodMFA course youtube.com/watch?v=1pxBu8…

Putting the finishing touches on my paper for @LouisvilleConf - discussing William Gass's final work, "Baroque Prose" - it's always a privilege to preach the Gass-pel @Greg_Gerke

View the exhibition "Wherein I Am: Highlights from the Aaron Coleman Papers" in Olin Library. An important figure in the St. Louis Black Arts Renaissance as a student at @WUSTL, Coleman is an award-winning poet, translator & scholar > bit.ly/3XUnR55.

Charles Johnson: How Art Can Liberate Our Perception tricycle.org/podcast/charle… via @tricyclemag

The celebration continues! Call for papers for "William Gaddis at his Centenary" special issue of ebr sites.wustl.edu/gaddis2022/pub…

Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 9 for "Returning Home: Repatriation of Jewish Books Confiscated During WWII." A panel discussion with Jewish studies scholars & curators. In-person & Zoom, 4-6 pm Olin Library, Rm 142. Sign up. bit.ly/3YK99Pd

Mysteries Contained Therein: In Praise of the Literary Journal Longform Interview lithub.com/mysteries-cont… via @lithub

Compelling new ekphrastic poems by Mary Jo Bang conjunctions.com/online/article… @MFA_WUSTL @WUSTLlibraries

My 2014 #novel An Untimely Frost was a Finalist for the American Writing Award in the Legacy category (a book more than 3 yrs old) - inspired by the real possibility that Mary Shelley and Washington Irving considered a romantic relationship - that would've been wild

Rick Moody Reading from A Frolic of His Own at the William Gaddis Centen... youtu.be/RrOjjbB8MM0 @WUSTLlibraries

Nick Sullivan Reading from J R at the William Gaddis Centenary Conference @WUSTLlibraries youtu.be/-FOOCQpyaP8 via @YouTube

Joy Williams Reading an Essay at the William Gaddis Centenary Conference @WUSTLlibraries youtu.be/-k0g1oTsaic via @YouTube

Steven Moore Keynote Address at the William Gaddis Centenary Conference @WUSTLlibraries youtu.be/-KxXgmpwhNE via @YouTube

Last day to register for virtual attendance at the William Gaddis Centenary Conference sites.wustl.edu/gaddis2022/ @WUSTLlibraries! #WilliamGaddis

#OnThisDay 100 years ago, The Waste Land appeared for the first time in The Criterion. The issue's Table of Contents offers a glimpse of 1922's literary landscape, presenting the poem alongside a review of Joyce's Ulysses and a Dostoevsky translation involving Woolf