{"id":68,"date":"2024-03-29T13:32:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections1\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:00:52","slug":"contemporary-literature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/contemporary-literature","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Literature Research Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-6447\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-2026-4-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-6447 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-cubic\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Contemporary Literature\" data-height=\"450\" data-width=\"800\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_6447\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_6447\">\n            <ul aria-live='off' class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6457 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2026-05-18 16:05:48\" data-filename=\"cmac003_resized-575x323.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/306\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"View Slide Details\" class=\"metaslider_image_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/cmac003_resized-575x323.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"800\" alt=\"image from Cynthia Macdonald Papers collection\" class=\"slider-6447 slide-6457 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Cynthia Macdonald Papers\" \/><\/a><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Cynthia Macdonald Papers<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6456 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2026-05-18 16:05:48\" data-filename=\"dba080_resized-575x323.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/128\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"View Slide Details\" class=\"metaslider_image_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/dba080_resized-575x323.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"800\" alt=\"image from Donald Barthelme Literary Papers collection\" class=\"slider-6447 slide-6456 msDefaultImage\" title=\"dba080_resizedDonald Barthelme Literary Papers\" \/><\/a><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Donald Barthelme Literary Papers<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6455 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2026-05-18 16:05:47\" data-filename=\"mcm049_resized-575x323.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/132\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"View Slide Details\" class=\"metaslider_image_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/mcm049_resized-575x323.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"800\" alt=\"image from Larry McMurtry Papers collection\" class=\"slider-6447 slide-6455 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Larry McMurtry Papers\" \/><\/a><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Larry McMurtry Papers<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6454 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2026-05-18 16:05:47\" data-filename=\"pat002_resized-575x323.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/50\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"View Slide Details\" class=\"metaslider_image_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/pat002_resized-575x323.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"800\" alt=\"image from Kenneth Patchen Papers collection\" class=\"slider-6447 slide-6454 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Kenneth Patchen Papers\" \/><\/a><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Kenneth Patchen Papers<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-6453 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2026-05-18 16:05:47\" data-filename=\"vmi002_resized-575x323.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/125\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"View Slide Details\" class=\"metaslider_image_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/vmi002_resized-575x323.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"800\" alt=\"image from Vassar Miller Papers collection\" class=\"slider-6447 slide-6453 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Vassar Miller Papers\" \/><\/a><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Vassar Miller Papers<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"card scp\">\r\n  <h2 class=\"card-header\">Contemporary Literature Collections<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"card-body\">\r\n<ul id=\"finding-list\" class=\"spec-col-list\">\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/128\" title=\"view Donald Barthelme 'Forum' Collection\">Donald Barthelme \"Forum\" Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/287\" title=\"view Donald Barthelme Literary Papers\">Donald Barthelme Literary Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/103\" title=\"view Steven Ford Brown 'Heart's Invention: On the Poetry of Vassar Miller' Papers\">Steven Ford Brown \"Heart's Invention: On the Poetry of Vassar Miller\" Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/100\" title=\"view Bruce Kellner Papers on Vassar Miller\">Bruce Kellner Papers on Vassar Miller<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/306\" title=\"view Cynthia Macdonald Papers\">Cynthia Macdonald Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/124\" title=\"view Jan de Hartog Papers\">Jan de Hartog Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/76\" title=\"view Mary Foote Manuscripts\">Mary Foote Manuscripts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/176\" title=\"view Gulf Coast Journal Records\">Gulf Coast Journal Records<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/250\" title=\"view Helen Moore Barthelme Papers\">Helen Moore Barthelme Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/261\" title=\"view Olive Hershey Papers\">Olive Hershey Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/31\" title=\"view Aldous Huxley Papers\">Aldous Huxley Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/129\" title=\"view Sylvan Karchmer Papers\">Sylvan Karchmer Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/127\" title=\"view John Lehmann Papers\">John Lehmann Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/16\" title=\"view Fritz Leiber Papers\">Fritz Leiber Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/143\" title=\"view Justin Leiber Papers\">Justin Leiber Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/47\" title=\"view 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Shrimplin Papers\">William B. Shrimplin Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/286\" title=\"view Gail Donohue Storey Papers\">Gail Donohue Storey Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/104\" title=\"view John Updike Writers in Society Lecture Records\">John Updike Writers in Society Lecture Records<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.lib.uh.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/741\" title=\"view Lawrence Welsh Papers\">Lawrence Welsh Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"card scp\">\r\n  <h2 class=\"card-header\">Digital Collections for Contemporary Literature<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"card-body\">\r\n<ul class=\"spec-col-list\">\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu\/collections\/2801ph27q\">Fritz Leiber Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Convention Flyers &amp; Programs<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"card scp\">\r\n  <h2 class=\"card-header\">Related Resources<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"card-body\">\r\n<ul class=\"spec-col-list\">\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uh.edu\/class\/english\/programs\/graduate-studies\/mfa-creative-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UH Creative Writing Program<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>Poetry &amp; Prose: Creative Writers at the University of Houston<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gulfcoastmag.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inprint<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contemporary Literature Collections Digital Collections for Contemporary Literature Fritz Leiber Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Convention Flyers &amp; Programs Related Resources UH Creative Writing Program Poetry &amp; Prose: Creative Writers at the University of Houston Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts Inprint","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"2-column-right.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6600,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/6600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}