News

Selected stories from the Beinecke Library, YaleNews, and external media outlets (the latter noted by source in parentheses after title of article).

The Origin Story of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Archinect)
October 1, 2019
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill are three names hardly unrecognizable. Still one of America’s largest architecture practices and pioneers of the modern skyscraper, but how did it get its start? Better yet, who is Skidmore? And who is Owings? How about Merrill? And how did the three meet? What is the story behind one of America’s most important practices? It is a story few have told and even fewer know, one filled with twists, turns, and unexpected surprises.
Some Highlights of Jonathan Edwards Collection on Public Display, September 30 - October 8, 2019
September 30, 2019

Some highlights from the Jonathan Edwards Collection are on public display on the Beinecke Library mezzanine, September 30 through October 8, 2019, in...
The Force of Looking: Kamel Daoud in the spotlight. (The Nation)
September 30, 2019
In one of his more affecting columns, Daoud writes of a trip to Yale’s Beinecke Library, where he finds a handwritten manuscript of The Myth of Sisyphus. Daoud pores over Camus’s scratched-out lines, noting that “the manuscript is the place where the book hasn’t erased its other possibilities.”
Debbie Does Dress (New York Times)
September 28, 2019
Ms. Bayley’s photographic and personal archives have been purchased by the Beinecke Library at Yale, and for months she has been sorting through her files. She came upon a contact sheet of herself in the dress taken by an old boyfriend, and that spurred some memories. “At some point, I gave the dress to Debbie,” she said. “I think she thought it was a shirt. She always wore it over pink jeans.” Ms. Harry wore it when Blondie performed at a bar called My Father’s Place in Roslyn, N.Y., in 1978.
Yale hosts Windham-Campbell Festival (Yale Daily News)
September 26, 2019
A Conversation with Kevin Repp about Beyond Words (WPKN)
September 24, 2019
A Ravel song turns up at Yale (Slipped Disc)
September 23, 2019
Beinecke presents “Beyond Words: Experimental Poetry and the Avant-Garde” (Yale Daily News)
September 20, 2019
Writing is simply an ‘alibi’ for living, says poet and novelist Eileen Myles
September 20, 2019
YCBA exhibit celebrates John Ruskin (Yale Daily News)
September 18, 2019
Beinecke Library 2018-2019 Annual Report
September 17, 2019

The Beinecke Library 2018-2019 Annual Report, including stories, statistics, and selected recent acquisitions, can be read and downloaded here: Beinecke...
Beinecke Goes “Beyond Words” (New Haven Independent)
September 17, 2019
Yale libraries, Law School celebrate Constitution Day 2019
September 16, 2019
Windham-Campbell Literary Festival features readings, talks, and a dance party
September 16, 2019
Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200 by Nancy Kuhl (North American Review)
September 13, 2019
The Yale Public Poem by Alain Arias-Misson: Friday, September 27, 2019, 3 p.m.
September 12, 2019

The Yale campus and the streets of New Haven will literally become a poem for a few hours on the afternoon of Friday, September 27. Spelled out in letters the...
Women’s Faculty Forum discusses women at Yale, past and future (Yale Daily News)
September 11, 2019
Poet Wayne Koestenbaum’s archive ‘a memory lane of mental calories spent’
September 11, 2019
Over the course of a varied and prolific career, Wayne Koestenbaum has published poetry collections, volumes of cultural criticism, novels, and a libretto. Two years ago, he plunged into an entirely different sort of project, one that involved managing Excel spreadsheets and contemplating his unpublished work.
Against Active Forgetting: On John Hersey’s “The Algiers Motel Incident” (Los Angeles Review of Books)
September 10, 2019
In memoriam: Alexander Schenker, helped make Yale a major center of Slavic studies
September 5, 2019