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Handwritten postcard from Samuel Beckett to Henry Wenning

Beckett states he just signed a contract with Calder fora new edition ofMore Pricks Than Kicks, for publication the following year, though he hasn't looked at the book in 25 years. For years, Beckett refused to allow the book to be reprinted. He did…

"Stretched on the Rack of the Midwest" review by George P. Elliott of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass, The Nation, April 29, 1968.

American Book Award for The Tunnel, 1996

Program for the November 11, 1973 performance of Krapp's Last Tape and Not I, featuring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, directed by Alan Schneider, at Washington University in St. Louis.

All That Fall marked Beckett's first foray into radio drama, and the first Beckett manuscript Washington University acquired.

Bing typed draft - one of ten toward the short story - with a note by Beckett

Notebook Beckett used to draft Bing.

Though Whitelaw and Beckett worked well together in the past and were close friends, this production, which Beckett directed, tried that friendship. Whitelaw, as Winnie, had memorized her (many) lines ahead of time, not knowing Beckett had made…

Read by Patrick Magee. An excerpt from How It Is, Beckett's English translation of Comment c'est, a three-part novel narrated by a man crawling through mud, recounting his life before, with and after Pim, a companion. It was one of the most difficult…