Soon from the Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative: Conferencing … Presenting … Networking with Patrick Bixby (Arizona State U), David Pattie (U of Birmingham), and Katherine Weiss (California State U Los Angeles). Online: May 13th @ 10 AM PST / 6 PM GMT (duration 1 hour)

i spent the last week in the beckett archive at reading university as this year's samuel beckett creative fellow. it was intense, confusing, sometimes disturbing, sometimes boring, strangely exhausting, none of which are bad things. i couldn't photograph beckett's handwriting/manuscripts so here's:

Happy 120th to Samuel Beckett! Although he probably wouldn't approve of the hat.

Coming up on the 18th of April in Dublin: Beckett Brunch 2026

If you have ever wanted to tour Beckett's Paris via bicycle, this imminent event might be for you:

More recently processed archival material adding to the production histories of Samuel Beckett in Ireland. This from Galloglass theatre company archive & production of Happy Days, Irish national tour. 1992. @beckettletters.bsky.social @stagingbeckett.bsky.social

My review of Beckett’s Children by Michael Coffey, an adoption memoir that also ponders Samuel Beckett and Susan Howe’s connections, is in this week’s TLS @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...

Day 3in the Wilderness and another Happy Day for Winnie. Come and see Beckett’s Happy Days at Arcola Theatre,Dalston 7pm today and tomorrow.

While we wait for Bill & Ted’s version, Aasif Mandvi & Rainn Wilson’s Godot gets a terrific early review in LA: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Do you have a burning Samuel Beckett question? Try checking out Chercher, our interactive index to pretty much everything he ever mentioned in a letter! You'll be amazed at what you can find. 📜 chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu

Hello everyone! We are happy to be here, talking about all things Samuel Beckett (but especially his correspondence).

London Sinfonietta have announced "Refracted Sound," a Beckett-focused programme on Friday, 29 November 2024 at the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall: Beckett's Quad I & II and Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett: londonsinfonietta.org.uk/whats-on/ref...

We recently found an online version of "Waiting for Godot in San Quentin," a short documentary of the 1988 San Quentin Godot production featuring an all-inmate cast. Part of Global Village's The Beckett Project, produced/directed by John Reilly and Melissa Shaw-Smith. mediaburn.org/video/godot-...

As part of our efforts to inventory media, we have introduced our student workers to VHS and audio tapes and showed them how to operate a stereo. If anyone needs us, we will be in our trashcans.

On the heels of #Bloomsday, did you know that you can use our Index to search all the mentions of things related to Joyce in Beckett's publicly archived letters? Simply put "Joyce" in as a keyword search, apply filters, and off you go! Here's a screen of what he was reading:

Have you found yourself wishing that there was a charming artist residency in France where you could contemplate Beckett's works and legacy? Let us introduce you to the Atelier Samuel Beckett from Gare St. Lazare Ireland:

Do you have a burning Samuel Beckett question? Try checking out Chercher, our interactive index to pretty much everything he ever mentioned in a letter! You'll be amazed at what you can find. 📜 chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu

Today in the Irish Times, Dr. Barry Houlihan talks Krapp's Last Tape: www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...

My Special Issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies on "Beckett's Women Contemporaries" is open access all January. Please check it out for some brilliant essays on Barbara Bray, Louise Bourgeois, Marguerite Duras, Maria Irene Fornes & Djuna Barnes xx www.euppublishing.com/toc/jobs/32/1

The Journal of Beckett Studies, through Edinburgh University Press, is offering free access to ALL articles through the end of January: samuelbeckettsociety.org/2024/01/06/j...

There's an amendment before the US House of Representatives that would eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, which, I don't know, seems like a bad idea. US folks can click through to send a message to their reps asking them to oppose.

We are very close to topping $300 in our #2O36GivingWeek drive with the Emory Alumni Association. Can you help us get there? Funds will go directly to student workers and efforts to preserve and catalog our papers. Find our direct link here: dayofgiving.emory.edu/amb/beckettl...

Did you know that since 1990, over 400 students have been a part of the Project? We wouldn't be here without them, so we are partnering with @emoryalumni for #2O36GivingWeek to raise funds so that we can keep working with amazing Emory students as we move into our next phase.

The newest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies is out! Via the Samuel Beckett Society: "Volume 32, issue 2 contains Contributions from Einat Adar, Conor Carville, Olga Beloborodova and Paul Stewart, as well book and performance reviews." 📜 www.euppublishing.com/toc/jobs/32/2

Thanks to Susan Carini for this lovely article about the Project in the Emory Report! We were so touched by everyone who came to celebrate with us. 📜

“That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.” (Samuel Beckett, Molloy)

Hearty congratulations to Jon Fosse, but we would be remiss if we did not share Beckett's "interview" after winning the prize himself. Someone agreed to the interview on his behalf and he couldn't find a graceful way out, so he said he would only do it if he could pick what questions to answer.

All are welcome to attend the public launch of "El Monólogo Mudo: En torno a la obra de Samuel Beckett," a collection of essays by Lucas Maragrit. Saturday 14 October La Casa de la Lectura, Buenos Aires 18:00 📜 h/t @BeckettSociety

Gettysburg College has decided to shut down its prestigious literary magazine, Gettysburg Review, without consultation with the people who run it.

I’m very excited to see this DH-adjacent project launched, which updates the Location Register of Beckett’s Letters with …. a *lot* of metadata. Indispensable for Beckett scholars. (I also joined the advisory board last week! Or two weeks ago? Time’s weird.)

Now that the cat is out of the bag (the man is out of the urn?) we can't wait for everyone to see our new site, Chercher. It combines our Location Register with all of the contextual research we've done since the project started in the late 80s. Trust us, you won't be disappointed. 📜

This week in history: On 10 September 1951 Samuel Beckett wrote to Georges Duthuit, "More than glad to read you after such a long time. I wrote a few days ago, but such a dismal, silly letter that I spared you it."

It has been five years coming, and we can't wait to introduce you all to Chercher! If you are in Atlanta we hope to see you at the launch - if not, stay tuned for how you can join virtually. 📜 🥂 to Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and Performant Software #digitalhumanities

Call for Papers: Beckett and Justice. The Samuel Beckett Society 9th Annual Conference. Cal State LA, 6-8 June 2024.

Hello everyone! We are happy to be here, talking about all things Samuel Beckett (but especially his correspondence).