• April 21, 2007: The John Gardner Festival and 9th Annual John Gardner Conference in Susquehanna, PA. Come one, come all, to a festival and scholarly conference in honor of the late great American writer, John Champlin Gardner! The festival is free. For the conference, a registration form is available at the John C. Gardner Appreciation Page.
  
  
• Summer 2006: Grendel opera - Academy-Award wining composer Elliot Goldenthal and Tony-Award winning director Julie Taymor collaborate on Grendel, a ground-breaking operatic premiere inspired by the Beowulf legend. Grendel premiered in Los Angelos June 8 and will be part of the Lincoln Center Festival in New York July. The Lincoln Center Festival includes a symposium with Elliot Goldenthal, Julie Taymor, and co-librettist J. D. McClatchy.
  
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  • New York Times' Never Mind the Monster, Watch Out for the Set of the Opera 'Grendel'
  • National Public Radio's 'Grendel': An Operatic Monster's Tale
    
  • "Evildoer" an article on Beowulf, Grendel, Gardner, and the new Goldenthal & Taymor Opera collaboration appears in the April 2006 issue of Smithsonian.
    
    
• October 2005, New Directions has reissued October Light with an introduction by Tom Bissell ($14.95 retail, ISBN 0-8112-1637-3). New Directions plans to reissue at least three other Gardner titles: The Sunlight Dialogues in the autumn of 2006, Nickel Mountain in the autumn of 2007, and another title, yet to be decided, in the autumn of 2008. Any input or feedback from Gardner fans and scholars would be appreciated - Contact Thomas Keith, Editor.
  
  
• "Rediscovering John Gardner: A Moral Writer in Search of His Legacy" by David M. Stanton was published in the January/February 2005 issue of Poets & Writers -- unfortunately an online version of the article is not available.
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  Listen to an archived recording of the February 22 2005 NPR Weekend Edition report by Tom Vitale on the new biography by Barry Silesky, John Gardner: Literary Outlaw (Algonquin). Additionally, the NPR site includes a new "Reporter's Notebook" article by Bob Malesky about Gardner's radio ambitions, "The Great NPR Program You Never Heard."

Books by Gardner
Books about Gardner & His Work
Checklist of Secondary Sources
Miscellany Online
Gardner's Theatrical Works (compiled by Jan Quackenbush)

Register of the John Gardner Archive, containing manuscripts, etc., at the Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester. The archive description, part of a Special Collections page, includes a fascimile of the cover of Gardner's DuPauw University journal.

Folders 43-47 of the Nicholas Joost Papers (containing correspondence in Box 1) at the Lauinger Library's Special Collections, Georgetown University.

Folders 50-52 of the Kenneth Aguillard Atchity Collection (containing correspondance in Box 4) at the Lauinger Library's Special Collections, Georgetown University.

The John C. Gardner Appreciation Page

Specters & Salvation

Tom Fasano's site, featuring biographical information and excerpts from several of Gardner's most-praised novels as well as a discussion mailing list.

An Index to John Gardner's Grendel

Tom Murphy's site contains not only an index, but annotated terms, study questions, Grendel links, and "The Grendel Board" for discussion.

Yahoo! Clubs: johngardner · John Gardner - The Author of Grendel, Mickelsson's Ghosts, etc.

Ron Criss created this group "to provide a place for casual discussion of the works and life of the novelist John Gardner.

Yahoo! Clubs: jcgardner · John Gardner Discussion List

Adam Walter's Gardner discussion group and mailing list.