Literary Research

Index to over 80 years of author interviews, searchable by year or author. Some include full-text. Also, the Library provides database access to selected issues of the Paris Review, subscribes to the print journal, and has collections of previously published interviews.

"Taken together, these conversations with novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, biographers, journalists, and critics constitute what Salman Rushdie calls 'the finest available inquiry into the ‘how’ of literature.'" (from the site)

Contains an archive of BookTV author talks and interviews. Click the Video Library link at the bottom of the page to search by keyword and/or date.

Lannan Foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities. The archive contains both audio and video recordings.

Audio interviews with authors of recently published books. Updated weekly.

The Naropa University (Colorado) Archive Project preserves and provides access to over 5000 hours of recordings of readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops by many of the leading figures of the U.S. literary postwar avant-garde. The library was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the university's Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg.

Includes interviews, articles, news, reading guides, audio recordings, and current information about books of poetry and poets.

The website of the Academy of American Poets. Search for poets, poems, and National Poetry Month resources.

Digital versions of 52 works written by African-American women during the 1800s. From the New York Public Library.

A collection of 18th-century digital objects - literary texts as well as images, sermons and speeches, legal documents, and more. Collected from several different sites.

A collection of 19th-century digital objects - literary texts as well as images, sermons and speeches, legal documents, and more.
Collected from several different sites.

Digitized and born-digital resources from libraries, archives and museums across the United States. Includes primary and secondary sources such as photographs, manuscripts, articles, and e-books.

Search for open-access, downloadable scholarly work and archival items provided by universities, libraries, and authors. Choose English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and/or other literature-related sub-disciplines from the list on the left side of the page.

This academic research site for the humanities is complied and maintained at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Along the left-hand side, choose from categories including Literature (in English), Literatures (other than English), and Literary Theory.

The Library of Congress has a huge number of resources about poetry, including audio recordings and other primary sources.

Articles, and links to content, about authors whose work is in the public domain (no longer under copyright). Contains primary sources.