“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new metaphors drawn from certain great domains of our contemporary life—science, all the sciences, and technology, and the relativistic and the historical...
“But well or poorly designed and printed, in a collector’s album or on billions of Christmas greetings each year, each stamp has a message of its own, best expressed in the words of the original good tidings of great joy!” - Belmont Faries Dear Rare Reader, We hope...
“For if the present generation find them merely “old-fashioned,” in a few decades, they would appear “quaint” and “curious,” and finally be considered very interesting ephemerae of a very interesting period in English art production.” - Gleeson White on the subject of holiday cards Dear Rare Reader, As always,...
"I think about food the way I think about art and literature. I think of them all as these really simple, effective links. They all kind of create their own systems of communication." - Sandra Trujillo Wednesday, October 15, marked the final day of Hispanic Heritage Month. The...
"On leaf of pam, on sedge-wrought roll, On plastic clay and leathern scroll, Man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, And to! the Press was found at last!" - John Greenleaf Whitter, The Library What are Palm Leaf Manuscripts? Before the introduction of paper, palm leaf manuscripts were the most popular writing...
Happy Birthday D.H. Lawrence! “For him the novel was not the exposition of a thesis about people, but an adventure of the soul.” – Richard Aldington on D.H. Lawrence [caption id="attachment_34600" align="aligncenter" width="450"] D.H. Lawrence: a complete list of his works...
The Rare Books Department is excited to welcome U back to campus! Want to make your semester 110% more interesting? (Okay, that’s not an official statistic, but it feels true.) Book a visit to our Special Collections reading room, or convince your professor to bring...
“This is the right place, drive on.” -- Brigham Young (July 24, 1847) On the morning of July 24,1847 Brigham Young and his company of one hundred and forty eight pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley through Emigration Canyon before determining it would be the place that...
A Hymn for Women’s Rights, Statehood, and Polygamy By Alexander Jolley, Rare Books Assistant Between the 1850s-60s, the women’s suffrage movement had crossed the Mississippi River and moved into the American West. What had long been a political issue in East Coast metropolitan cities finally saw some...