Salem Lit Fest, Renee Gladman Symposium, and local NEH grants            

The Boston Globe

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced its grant recipients for humanities projects across the country. Literary-related grantees in Massachusetts include: $300k to Northeastern for a book project on the history, architecture, and landscape of Boston’s Southwest Corridor; $300k to UMass Boston for publication of an English translation of the Mesoamerican pictographic text “The Tlalamatl Cuaxicala”; $600k to Brookline’s Verse Video for the eight-episode television series on American poetry and American culture; $194,347 to Harvard for the publication of handwritten diaries of Egyptian foreman who helped American archeologists in the mid-20th century; $197,030 to Harvard for the publication of the English translation of five volumes of modern Ukrainian literature; $50K to Peter Filkins for a book on Ingeborg Bachmann; $600k to the Center for Independent Documentary in Newton for a film on the history and cultural impact of the Nancy Drew novels. 

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