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2024 Sub-Librarians Meeting: Writing Sherlock Holmes into the Twenty-first Century
Get PDF2024 marks the 50th anniversary of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and the 30th anniversary of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice—two books that use the Arthur Conan Doyle characters in ways far beyond the Victorian white male-dominated society in which they were conceived. Seven-Per-Cent Solution—the hugely bestselling novel and the Oscar-nominated film—reinvented Sherlock Holmes, bringing him into the modern world, trading the staid Basil Rathbone image for the eccentric, bohemian, and occasionally funny Holmes seen on page and screen today. Twenty years later, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice introduced Sherlock Holmes to a very twentieth century young woman, demonstrating that the Victorian detective might grow beyond his misogyny, entering into partnership with a brilliant young woman. Acclaimed authors Nicholas Meyer and Laurie R. King, in conversation with their friend and editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger, will discuss these milestone Sherlockian novels and consider the following questions: Why is Sherlock Holmes still so popular after more than a century? How did the original stories change the course of crime fiction? How has the character of Sherlock Holmes shifted to become more nuanced and inclusive? How do writers keep reinventing the archetypes of the great detective and the good doctor ? How do you write a Holmes that is both true to the original, yet reflects a modern, multicultural society in a way that Arthur Conan Doyle never could have envisioned?
The talk will be followed by book sales and book signings by all three panelists
To Span The Gap
Get PDFMelanie C. Gordon, director of Bridges to a Brighter Future, has an ambitious wish list for the college access program at Furman
LGBTQIA+ @Furman
Get PDFFrom a 1970 Talk-A-Topic panel about homosexuality, to Furman\u27s offering of benefits to domestic partners in 2001, to the university\u27s first drag show and rising student support, a new visual timeline tells the story of the LGBTQIA+ community on campus
