Media from the George Garrett Papers, 1953-2004, undated

This series of the papers of George Garrett contains 566 various audiocassettes and 13 compact disks from the papers of George Garrett. The series contains readings by Garrett and other literary figures at a variety of classes, workshops, events, radio programs, and literary festivals as well as appearances at bookstores, colleges, and churches. Venues include the Virginia Festival of the Book, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Hollins Literary Festival, Jefferson Institute for Life Long Learning, New Dominion Bookstore, Second Street Gallery, Williams Corner Bookstore, PEN/Faulkner Awards, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Bennington Writer's Workshops, Poetry Society of Virginia, St. Paul's Church, Ivy, University of Virginia Bookstore, and the Yellow Shoe Poets (Louisiana State University). Of interest are his reading at the funeral service for May Sarton, the Raleigh lecture at Trinity College, Oxford, readings in honor of Staige Blackford, Martin Battestin on George Herbert, a discussion of John Updike, and Henry Taylor's essay on Eleanor Taylor. Several of the tapes were commercially produced.

The collection also contains readings by Betty Adcock, John Aldridge, James Applewhite, John Ashberry, Martin Battestin, Ruthe Battestin, Richard Bausch, Robert Bausch, Ann Beattie, Madison Bell, Wendell Berry, John Berryman, James H. Billington, Sydney Blair, Amy Bloom, Robert Brickhouse, Carrie Brown, Frederic Buechner, John Casey, Grace Cavalieri, Paula Champa, Fred Chappell, Avery Chenoweth, Kelly Cherry, Alan Cheuse, Carolyn Chute, Amy Clampitt, Nicole Cooley, Elizabeth Cox, Patrick Cribben, Michael Curtis, Janice Daugherty, Doug Day, Elizabeth Dewberry, Leo Diehl, R.H.W. Dillard, Ellen Douglas, Rita Dove, Tom Drury, John Ehle, Garrett Epps, Mary Flinn, Roland Flint, and Ann Freeman.

Other readings include ones by Mary Gaitskill, Brendan Galvin, Ted Genoways, Margaret Gibson, John Gielgud, The Reverend Maurice L. (“Rusty”) Goldsmith, Andrea Gollin, William Goyen, Vivian Gornick, Lucy Grealy, Alec Guinness, Alyson Hagy, Jim Hall, Cathryn Hankla, O. B. Hardison, Michael Harper, Brooks Haxton, Anthony Hecht, Brodie Herndon, Angie Hogan, Michael Hornburg, David Huddle, Henry Huddle, Jim Jeter, Denis Johnson, Julia Johnson, Fred Kasten, Alfred Kazin, Garrison Keillor, Phillip Kimball, Carolyn Kizer, Joyce Kornblatt, Jeanne Larsen, Doug Lawson, William Henry Lewis, Jeb Livingood, James McAuley, Jill McCorkle, Kevin McFadden, Jay McInerney, James McKinley, Tim McLaurin, David McNair, Hilary Masters, Peter Matthiessen, Bernard Mayes, Sheila McMillen, W. S. Merwin, Michael Mewshaw, Thorpe Moeckel, Rick Moody, and Craig Mueller.

Additional readings are by Debra Nystrom, Ed Ochester, Flannery O'Connor, Robert O'Neil, Gregory Orr, Janet Peery, Carol Poster, Virginia Priest, Liam Rector, Alexandra Ripley, Lucinda Roy, Paul Ruffin, Stephen Sandy, Helen Schulman, Lisa Russ-Spaar, Mary Lee Settle, Mona Simpson, David Slavitt, R. T. Smith, Ron Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Elizabeth Spires, Darcey Steinke, John Stone, Robert Stone, Deborah Sussman, Gay Talese, Amy Tan, Henry Taylor, Anita Thompson, Christopher Tilghman, William H. Townsend, Betsy Vaughan, William Warfield, Mac Wellman, Tom Whalen, Allen Wier, Marianne Wiggins, James Wilcox, Lisa Williams, Lex Williford, Calder Willingham, Fred Wiseman, Meg Wolitzer, and Charles Wright.

The collection also contains a compact disk of Chopin piano pieces and a set of twelve compact disks of Gary Gallagher’s book "Robert E. Lee and His High Command."