Video: The New York Public Library’s Collection of Weird Objects
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A lock of Walt Whitman’s hair, Jack Kerouac’s boots, and Virginia Woolf’s cane are just a few of the items of literary paraphernalia available at the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection—if you have an appointment.
Produced by The New Yorker.
Running time: 4:41
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Evocative for bringing the writer to us as the human being who touched, moved, needed, and breathed.
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