[Personal_archives] Guardian Article - "Why literary archives are like monkfish?"

[Forstrom, Michael]

All,

It was the 2008 Flair Symposium:

Creating a Usable Past: Writers, Archives, & Institutions
November 13-15, 2008
Harry Ransom Center
University of Texas at Austin

Information on the conference, including a program, is accessible at
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/flair/past/.
Cheers,
Michael Forstrom

From: personal_archives-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [mailto:personal_archives-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Rodney Carter
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 1:51 PM
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Subject: [Personal_archives] Guardian Article - "Why literary archives are like monkfish?"

An article which uses a nice (if icky) metaphor to discuss appraisal and A&D for literary archives and which questions our modern fascination with author's papers.

"When, eventually, you have carted it away and sold it to an institution that has catalogued it assiduously, and then put it on display or exhibition, an archive can be a wonderful thing."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/jan/21/literary-archives

I wasn't able to figure out which conference he was referring to - does anyone know?
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