May 2012
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WatchOscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol Prison on May 19, 1897, the following year he completed his last work The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The above video (at the 56 second mark) features the curator of the Library’s centennial exhibition highlighting a personalized copy of the book, with an inscription from Wilde to Major Nelson, the warden of Reading Gaol.
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Van Cliburn Talks Fame, Audiences and Self-Doubt... →
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“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
– Alfred Hitchcock (via penamerican)
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“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You...”
– James Fenton
(James Fenton will be appearing at the Library this Thursday to be interviewed by Robyn Creswell, fellow Cullman Center Fellow and Poetry Editor of The Paris Review. It will be a magical night for poetry!)
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It's 2pm. Have you voted for Jefferson Market... →
Exciting news! If Jefferson Market can increase the number of votes it receives this week during the Partners in Preservation contest, the library could receive $60,000K! Vote Today! Vote Tomorrow! Vote EVERY DAY through May 21!
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Maurice Sendak, We Thank You
For your contributions to literature, we thank you.
For your contributions to art, we thank you.
For your contributions to our childhood, we thank you.
RIP Mr. Sendak - The Library was honored to present you with the 2000 Library Lion award and you will forever be remembered as creator, world observer, poignant pontificator, and memory maker.
We couldn’t pick our favorite quote from...
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“I believe that it is only by sharing our stories that we truly become one...”
– The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger, recently reviewed in The New York Times.
What’s even better than a quote? Nell is visiting the Library this Tuesday. You won’t want to miss this conversation!
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“I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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Now, Here's a Little Story...
“I’ve got to tell about three bad brothers, you know so well. It started way back in history, with Adrock, MCA, and me, Mike D.”
- Beastie Boys, from Paul Revere off their debut album Licensed to Ill (available at the Library)
This quote was recited in memory of the already-missed Adam “MCA” Yauch
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What's the Score?
Our friends at the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford have a new musical crowdsourcing project. You can help them transcribe the Libraries’ music collection (“64 boxes of sheet music, mostly for piano, from the mid-Victorian period, which includes dance music and other pieces designed for home entertainment”). Jolly good!
Click the link to find out...
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“Now is the time to think of only one thing. That which I was born for.”
– The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
May 4, 1953, Mr. Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. It’s a good day to revisit this classic! Happy Flashback Friday!
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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn,...”
– Dr. Seuss
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