Dr Kasia Boddy Discusses New Don DeLillo Novel, 31 May 2016

On 31 May 2016, 8-9.30 pm (UK time) Dr Kasia Boddy takes part in a twitter chat, #Bookhour, about Zero K, the new Don DeLillo novel. Hosted by US Studies Online,  #Bookhour is an open forum twitter discussion between scholars and the public that takes place on the last Tuesday of the month.  The title selected for […]

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Dr Sarah Dillon Presents BBC Radio 3 Literary Pursuits

The third and fourth episodes in Dr Sarah Dillon’s literary detective documentary series for BBC Radio 3 – Literary Pursuits – will be broadcast to bracket the Hay Festival at 6.45pm on Sunday 29th May and Sunday 5th June. Episode 3 investigates the story behind the posthumous publication of Jane Austen’s Persuasion whilst episode 4 travels to […]

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Writing by Sound – a New Exhibition on the First Floor

Writing by Sound: Pitman’s Phonographic Shorthand charts something of the extraordinary ambition of Isaac Pitman’s attempt to create and popularise a system of writing in which the ‘very sound of every word is made VISIBLE.’ Pitman’s innovation was to develop a shorthand system with a phonetic rather than orthographic basis; a way of recording speech […]

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