Tag: Gore Vidal

  • Campus & Community

    New faculty: Teju Cole

    Teju Cole, author of “Open City” and “Every Day Is for the Thief,” will teach creative writing as the first Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice.

    7–10 minutes
    Teju Cole.
  • Arts & Culture

    The life and legacy of Gore Vidal

    Author Gore Vidal left his papers and library to the University. The fruits of that gift, combined with an earlier gift of a portion of his papers in 2001, have been meticulously cataloged and archived at Houghton Library.

    5–8 minutes
    William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal debate.
  • Arts & Culture

    Treasure island

    Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.

    8–13 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    The history at Houghton

    Houghton, a template for university literary archives everywhere, also has room for the odd: A Thoreau pencil, a Dickinson teacup, and more.

    5–7 minutes