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...rare move to protect the integrity of University-owned manuscripts, Harvard recently denied an English professor permission to publish his interpretation of a collection of Emily Dickinson poems housed in Houghton Library...
Harvard controls the property rights to Dickinson's original manuscripts, which are kept at Houghton Library, as well as the copy-rights to those poems through...
Facsimiles of the manuscripts are available to anyone, but scholars who want to view the originals at Houghton Library must undergo a screening process because the manuscripts are so delicate...
Damrosch's book, soon to be published, is called The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus and explores Naylor's writings, which are archived in Harvard's Houghton Library...
...secrets are as various as the exorcists. In The Blue Suit: A Memoir of Crime, just published by Houghton Mifflin (216 pages; $19.95), Richard Rayner, a British writer now living in Los Angeles, tells of how, while a Cambridge University undergaduate in the 1970s, he drifted into a yearlong crime spree of shoplifting, check forgery, housebreaking and bank fraud--following the mysterious disappearance of his father, who had been sent to jail for embezzlement. The writing is stripped-down Dostoyevsky ("My head itched. Cold sweat ran down my flesh...."), the overall effect as unnerving and oddly exhilarating as the life...