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Features a library designed by interior designer Alan Tanksley in the Hampton Designer Showhouse in Wainscott, New York. Use of paper clip chandelier by Gary Ponzo; Price range of Ponzo's chandeliers.

The article reports that Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of Hubert Henry Harrison, the prominent Harlem writer, public speaker, and activist whose work influenced a generation of African American intellectuals and radicals. The papers collection spans the years 1893 to 1928 and features manuscripts, scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence, photographs and annotated books from Harrison's personal library. With rare letters and personal exchanges among pivotal figures such as Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and A. Philip Randolph, the Harrison collection documents a critical period of cultural and political debate about the role of race and class in the United States.

Reports the acquisition by Columbia University of the library and personal archive from playwright Tennessee Williams's home in Florida. Details of the literary material acquired by the university.

Books have been born all over Brooklyn's Fort Greene. Richard Wright labored over ''Native Son'' here while sitting on a hill in Fort Greene Park; a bench there now bears his name. He lived nearby, as did Marianne Moore, and several contemporary writers have roots in the neighborhood, including Colson Whitehead, Jhumpa Lahiri and Nelson George. For a tour of this literary hub (or to take the free workshops the New York Writers Coalition holds here to help people find their inner author), hop the subway to DeKalb Avenue or a nearby station. Bring pen and paper, in case the muse strikes. NOON If you emerge from the DeKalb subway stop, stroll toward Fort Greene Park, where the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, a memorial to Revolutionary War dead, stretches into the sky. Head toward the Walt Whitman branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, 93 St. Edwards Street, (718) 935-0244. In the early 1900s, the building was a resource for the families of workers at the nearby Brooklyn Navy Yard, at the time even having a special children's entrance. The library offers a modest selection of books on the borough -- check out Allen Abel's 1995 ''Flatbush Odyssey: A Journey Through the Heart of Brooklyn'' -- and plenty of thrillers by Dean Koontz and Mary Higgins Clark. Swing by for a book discussion, and be sure to ask a librarian for a good local reading spot. A favorite is Two Steps Down, a restaurant at 240 DeKalb Avenue, (718) 399-2020. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the papers of Malcolm X that were to be sold at auction in March 2002, but are to be made available to scholars at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center in Harlem, under an agreement between his family and the center. Background on the documents, which have yet to be assessed by scholars; Comments of the center's director, Howard Dodson; Sample items, including photographs and a diary; Significance of Malcolm X's diaries and drafts of speeches.