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Posted by: Mary Lou Reker
I want to update you on a Kluge Center holiday event that may become a seasonal ritual. In December last year, Wendy W. Fok (Kluge Fellow in Digital Studies, 2014) suggested that the Center’s Fellows hold an “ugly holiday sweater contest.” The mood was, “Yes. Let’s do it.” Thus the Center’s first “ugly holiday sweater” …
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Posted by: Mary Lou Reker
It’s Wednesday, and in the Kluge Center that means lunch. In a tradition that dates back to the earliest days of the Center, scholars and staff gather each Wednesday for a brown-bag lunch that fosters collegiality and a lively exchange of ideas. Romila Thapar was the first person to suggest we meet regularly over lunch, …
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Posted by: Mary Lou Reker
Dr. Thomas (Tom) Mann is our colleague here at the Library of Congress and recently he announced that, after thirty-three years, he will retire in January 2015. All the former researchers whom he has helped as well as this blogger and the rest of the Kluge Center staff will miss him dearly. Most days you …
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Posted by: Mary Lou Reker
To write what you are interested in writing and to succeed in getting editors to pay for it, is a feat that may require pretty close calculation and a good deal of ingenuity. -Edmund Wilson, Jr. Edmund Wilson, Jr., was a writer-editor and literary critic best known today for his book “To the Finland Station.” …
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