Conjunctions archive (Ms.2005.14)

The records of Conjunctions Magazine are a comprehensive collection of manuscripts, correspondence, proofs, artwork and editorial material related to the influential literary magazine edited by Bradford Morrow and published by Bard College beginning in 1981.

The collection is arranged in five series, each corresponding to an accession.

Series 1. April 1997 Accession (A97-15) (1970-1996) contains a large collection of author material, correspondence and manuscripts. Authors such as Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, William T. Vollman and David Foster Wallace are represented. A small amount of editorial material is also included in this series, as are production materials (proofs, blue-lines, camera ready copy) for Conjunctions 15 to 27.

Series 2. September 1998 Accession (A98-40) (1983-1993) is primarily unsorted correspondence and manuscripts along with some production material. Included is a typescript of Jeffrey Miller's 1983 work: Paul Bowles, a bibliography, published by Black Sparrow Press (Box A98-40:1, Folders 1-3).

Series 3. November 2004 Accession (A2004-36) (1999) contains an extensive file of author materials (manuscripts and correspondence) that includes many of the writers who have been published in Conjunctions, among them Brian Evenson, Rick Moody, Paul West and William Gass. Included are scattered productions materials for issues 29 to 42.

Series 4. November 2006 Accession A2006-60) (1991-2005) includes author files, cover letters and unsorted correspondence from 1992 to 2004; several identified correspondents are Martine Bellen, Michael Bergstein and William Burroughs. Also included are manuscripts (some of them copyedited); among these are Michael Frayn's Headlong (Box A2006-60:15); Marguerite Young's Harp Song for a Radical : the Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs (Box A2006-60:18); and Norman Manea's The Hooligan's Return (A2006-60:49). A large collection of production materials for issues 22 to 42 are also found in this series. Subscriber lists, bound copies of Conjunctions and a VHS recording of a Conjunctions 31 reading are included.

Series 5. August 2008 Accession (A2008-044) (1995-2008) contains a significant collection of author files and correspondence (much of it arranged chronologically). Copyedited manuscripts and first proofs for issues 41 to 50 are also included in this series, along with manuscripts by David Shields, Ned Rorem and Paul West (Box A2008-044:57-58). There is also a collection of revised drafts of Bradford Morrow's manuscripts The Diviner and The Fifth Turning. Production materials for Conjunctions 33 to 50 are contained in this series, as are several folders of correspondence and manuscripts relating to the 1997 online edition of Conjunctions (Box A2008-044:56).