This Halloween season, Frankenstein is everywhere. And no wonder, for the book turned 200 this year and is overdue for a party. While the monster is everywhere, what about the woman who created the famous story? We’ve asked our own Frankenstein expert and Curator of Science Fiction and Popular Culture, Peter Balestrieri to review theContinue reading “A look at Mary Shelley the Film”
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Historically Yours Podcast: Ursula LeGuin, Earthsea, and Tolkien with guest Peter Balestrieri
In this episode guest Peter Balestrieri brings us a letter from Ursula LeGuin that he found tucked inside of a recently donated copy of “The Farthest Shore.” LISTEN: Download this episode (right click and save) Guest Peter Balestrieri Citation LeGuin, Ursula to Martin, John Located in “The Farthest Shore.” Allen and Brenda Lewis Science FictionContinue reading “Historically Yours Podcast: Ursula LeGuin, Earthsea, and Tolkien with guest Peter Balestrieri”
Historically Yours Podcast: A Tale of Woe for Miss Rosa Poe with guest Peter Balestrieri
Listen to the podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) For this episode of Historically Yours, Curator of Science Fiction and Popular Culture, Peter Balestrieri takes us back into the publishing industry reading a handwritten letter from 1868 written on behalf of Miss Rosa Poe, sister of Edgar Allan Poe. Letter information: MsL T473d Thompson, John ReubenContinue reading “Historically Yours Podcast: A Tale of Woe for Miss Rosa Poe with guest Peter Balestrieri”
Special Collections Curator Peter Balestrieri Featured in “Archival Outlook”
Curator of Science Fiction and Popular Culture, Peter Balestrieri is featured in the Cover Story of the May/June issue of Archival Outlook from the Society of American Archivists. “Archivists are artists,” Balestrieri remarks, reflecting on his punk rock gig with the Violent Femmes and how a life with music and libraries intertwined eventually led him toContinue reading “Special Collections Curator Peter Balestrieri Featured in “Archival Outlook””
News From Special Collections 10/16/2015
Librarians in the Wild: ICON Science Fiction Convention October 16-18th, 2015 The ICON Science Fiction convention began 40 years ago, born from a passionate group of fans that met in a science fiction class taught here at the University of Iowa by the Hugo and Nebula award winning author Joe Haldeman, and the same group who formed a U.I.Continue reading “News From Special Collections 10/16/2015”
News from Special Collections 9/18/2015
New Staff: Alonso Avila is a new librarian and will begin his residency at the University of Iowa Libraries by spending a year working in Special Collections & University Archives. In May 2015, he received his Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).Continue reading “News from Special Collections 9/18/2015”
Return of the Return of the Man From U.N.C.L.E.
In September of 1964, a new series premiered on American television. It was a spy series influenced by Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels and the films that began with 1962’s, Dr. No. I was eleven years old at the time and couldn’t wait to see it. America had caught spy fever and television and HollywoodContinue reading “Return of the Return of the Man From U.N.C.L.E.”
Rusty, Rustebar, Rust E. Barron
The James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Collection of Pulps, Fanzines, and Science Fiction Books in the Special Collections of the University of Iowa Library is a manifestation of fandom, a subculture of shared interest, networking, and activity that grows up around almost any subject. Fandom demands more of its participants than merely liking something; they mustContinue reading “Rusty, Rustebar, Rust E. Barron”