A Little Dictionary of Obscenities
Allen Walker Read, who has already appeared in our posts, was a close friend of Madeline Kripke. He lived in ...
Lilly Library
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Amazing Adventures at the Lilly: Celebrating the World Premiere of the Kavalier and Clay Opera at IU
Teaching and outreach assistant Maggie McDonald makes some magic in the stacks in celebration of the world premiere of The ... -
BOOkplates: Macabre Marks of Ownership
Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry calls forth spooky bookplates from the great beyond (the stacks of the Lilly Library), ... -
Stranger Than Lilies: A Cryptobotanical Survey of Freakish Flora, Peculiar Plants, and Historical Herbals (Part II)
Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora, again! ... -
Artist, (Genius), Human: Exploring Drafts of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Teaching and outreach assistant Helen Gunn looks for Vonnegut in his drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five. A walk through the Lilly Library’s ... -
Stranger Than Lilies: A Cryptobotanical Survey of Freakish Flora, Peculiar Plants, and Historical Herbals (Part I)
Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora. “But ... -
The Box of Lost Tales: John Boorman’s Lord of the Rings
Most people who are familiar with the director-writer-producer John Boorman know him for the iconic 1981 fantasy film, Excalibur. Many ... -
![A spread of an open journal, (recto) photograph of Steven LeBlanc (left) and Jerry T. Boyd (right) standing together indoors and (verso) passage in handwritten cursive script that reads “getting out of St. Louis and to San Francisco [,] Steve wrote me a postcard saying ‘Happy at last’ [,] Jerry and Steve, July ‘94.”](https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/boyd5.jpg)
Love, Jerry: A Celebration of Love, Loss, and the Life of a Gay Man in the 1970s-90s
In celebration of Pride Month, student Curatorial Assistant Jake Gentry shares his exploration of the newly-processed archive of writer, activist ... -
Provenance, Paleography, and Planetary Motion
Curator of Dermatology, Science, and General Medicine Erin Chiparo shares her exciting discovery of an uncataloged copy of an important ... -
A Glossary of Ape
Edgar Rice Burroughs was not a lexicographer but an author of pulp fiction, dozens of adventure and science fiction novels. ...