Fiction featuring archives, archivists, memory, and/or record-keeping, and books that can otherwise be read "through an archival lens." Inspired by Caryn Radick's "'Complete and in Order': Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Archival Profession" (http://americanarchivist.org/doi/abs/...) and the SAA 2015 panel "Reading from the Crypt: Tales of Archives, Horror, and Dystopia" (http://sched.co/2wr1).
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message 1: by Helen (new)

Helen Other media mentioned by audience and/or on Twitter during the SAA 2015 session:
TV: Hannibal
Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memento
Games: Call of Cthulhu, Trail of Chtulhu, Gone Home


message 2: by Helen (new)

Helen For more on archives in fiction, check out David Mattison's Fictional World of Archives http://fictionalarchives.blogspot.com (older version @ http://www.victoria.tc.ca/mattison/fi...)


message 3: by Michele (new)

Michele See also the goodreads group Arrangement and Description: Archivists at Large -- would love for this group to be more active, come join and talk &tc.!


message 4: by Michele (new)

Michele Also mentioned: Alphabet of Thorn.


message 5: by Caryn (new)

Caryn Wow! Great of you to compile this (so quickly) Helen! The romance list you mentioned (on Twitter?) is fun too! I just added "Protected by the Prince" by Annie West to that one.


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