Fresh from OR Books comes Beckett’s Children: A Literary Memoir from the pen of long-standing Beckettian Michael Coffey. Described as ‘a lyrical blend of personal memoir, father-son dialogue, and literary investigation’ the book ‘probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American poet Susan Howe’ searching for traces of various connections, including the their…
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A reminder that the Society is asking for submissions for its contribution to next year’s Modern Language Association Convention to be held in New Orleans in January 2025. The Samuel Beckett Society has proposed three panels for the convention: Title: Samuel Beckett and Persistent Impoverishment We welcome 250-word abstracts on the topic of poverty relating…
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The Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative has announced details of its latest online seminar. Titled ‘Try again. Fail again. Fail Better: Success in Publishing’, the session will share ideas on all aspects of getting published in the discipline. The event will include contributions from the Initiative’s co-organiser Julie Bates of Trinity College Dublin, as…
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The next session of the London Beckett Seminar sees Society president, Prof Patrick Bixby (Arizona State University), deliver a paper titled Beckett, Lefebvre and the Everyday. This online session will take place at 18:00 GMT on Friday 23 February and is provided free of charge but registration is essential through this link. The abstract which…
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A recent publication in the field of Beckett Studies provides us with more rich and thoughtful work from academic and practicing artist, Luz María Sánchez Cardona. A former board member of the Samuel Beckett Society, Luz has devoted much of her scholarly work on Beckett to creatively exploring themes of technology and sound in his…
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Celebration of Ireland’s patron saint might frequently be characterised merely as a mass assault on communal sobriety, yet it also serves as moment to celebrate Irish culture in general throughout the world. Indeed it is frequently a day of renewal, as witnessed in Watt for example, where the narrator tells us that the sheets in…
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Barely has the chat died down from MLA 2024 but already the plans for next year are hurtling down the road. The Samuel Beckett Society has issued a call for papers for three proposed panels at next year’s conference which will be held in January 2025 in New Orleans. The proposed panels are as follows:…
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An announcement of the acquisition of hitherto unseen archival material has just been made by The Beckett International Foundation. The collection includes five typescripts with works by Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil, Beckett’s wife and long-time partner. The collection was in the possession of the couple’s friend Edith Fournier, who passed away last year. The documents reveal that…
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The latest publication in the Cambridge Elements series is Bad Godots: Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel and Other Interventions by veteran Beckett scholar S.E. Gontarski. According to its abstract, this volume ‘focuses on the machinery of commercial theatre, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them.…
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Society president Patrick Bixby has announced the opening of the latest round of Ruby Cohn Bursaries. The Samuel Beckett Society is committed to strengthening the field of Beckett Studies by supporting new scholarship from early career researchers. In this spirit of inclusion and to honour an outstanding past member and scholar, we would like to…
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