Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Founding Editor, of the Beckett Letters project was authorised by Samuel Beckett to edit his correspondence in 1985. Here she recalls her first meeting with Beckett and how his attitude to publishing his letters changed as he neared the end of his life. (Pictured clockwise l-r: Samuel Beckett, Lois Overbeck and Martha Fehsenfeld)
All leadership is ideological; all business is ideological. I’ve made this argument in an earlier blog, “The Myth of Pragmatic Leadership,” as well as in Discourse on Leadership: A Critical Analysis. ...
In this interview editor Dan Gunn talks about The Letters of Samuel Beckett series and the future of Beckett scholarship
An Introduction from Senior Commissioning Editor, Vince Higgs Fine-tuning in physics and cosmology explores the realisation that if the Universe had even slightly different initial properties, then the...
As we approach the 2016 election most of the attention has focused on the Presidential race. Yet, Congressional and state contests could have a huge impact on the future of religious freedom and sexual...
Take a stab at this jigsaw puzzle to reveal the cover for The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 4. 1966 - 1989
Who is not fascinated by knights in shining armor? Their images continue to attract us to dramatic films, to museum exhibits of elaborate armor and weaponry, or to the showmanship of staged jousts at “Renaissance...
In the second part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss what Beckett would have thought about the project and whether these letters bring us closer to the man himself.
“Peres has done more for the cause of peace in the Middle East than just about anybody alive” said President Obama in 2012 upon bestowing Shimon Peres the Medal of Freedom. And while the world mourns...
In the first part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss his experiences working on the series, his favourite letters and what we now know about Beckett that we didn't know before.
With six weeks remaining until the U.S. Presidential Election, the race is locked in a virtual deadlock. That fact, in and of itself, is pretty remarkable given that a woman is as likely to be the...
Mark Philip Bradley shares with us an interactive timeline detailing unforgettable events in the Human Rights movement.