A conversation between Matt Miller and Zachary Turpin on their new book, Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitman’s Early Notebooks and Fragments.

Zachary Turpin is an assistant professor of American literature at the University of Idaho, and a former Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. A specialist in the lost writings of 19th- and 20th-century authors, his work focuses on American periodical culture, bibliographic analysis, and digital-archival archaeology. He is currently writing a book for Liveright on literary rediscoveries, thefts, and forgeries, and his articles have appeared in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and elsewhere.

Matt Miller is an associate professor of English at Yeshiva University in Manhattan, where he teaches American literature and creative writing. Miller previous Whitman study Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass, was published by the University of Nebraska Press.