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  • 5 Oct 2016

    Video interview with editor Dan Gunn

    In this interview editor Dan Gunn talks about The Letters of Samuel Beckett series and the future of Beckett scholarship

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  • 3 Oct 2016

    Piece together The Letters of Samuel Beckett

    Take a stab at this jigsaw puzzle to reveal the cover for The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 4. 1966 - 1989

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  • 30 Sep 2016

    An interview with Dan Gunn on The Letters of Samuel Beckett (Part 2)

    In the second part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss what Beckett would have thought about the project and whether these letters bring us closer to the man himself.

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  • 29 Sep 2016

    An interview with Dan Gunn on The Letters of Samuel Beckett (Part 1)

    In the first part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss his experiences working on the series, his favourite letters and what we now know about Beckett that we didn't know before.

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  • 26 Sep 2016

    New book trailer for The Letters of Samuel Beckett

    In this book trailer editor George Craig reads some of Beckett's letters taken from the fourth and final volume in the series, 'The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966 - 1989'.

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  • 17 Sep 2014

    A Q&A with Dan Gunn

    Dan Gunn, one of the editors of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, is interviewed by Hynd Lalam, who assisted in research for the most recent volume as a student of Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris, and who is about to start an M.Phil. in Modern English Literature at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.

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  • 9 Nov 2011

    A Q&A with Dan Gunn

    Dan Gunn, co-editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 2: 1941-1956 discusses Beckett’s relationship to fame, his engagement with the French language, and his unexpected bond with one of his chief correspondents.

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  • 20 Oct 2011

    Beckett’s Reading List

    Samuel Beckett’s letters are full of the literary names he encountered through his work: authors he wrote about (Proust), poets he translated (Apollinaire), peers he monitored (Ionesco), and predecessors he admired (Joyce). But, in his non-professional life, Beckett was also an avid reader, discussing his favorite reads (and not-so-favorite) with many of his correspondents.

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