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Book annotations document scuffle between Ernest Hemingway and Max Eastman 22 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
Annotated inside cover of Max Eastman's "Art and the Life of Action, with other Essays." Ernest Hemingway, on his way to cover the civil war in Spain, stops in New York for a couple of days and drops...
Fellow discusses work with Henry James’s letters 20 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
Peter A. Walker, a Harry Ransom Center fellow from Salem State University, discusses his research in the Henry James collection. As co-general editor of The Complete Letters of Henry James, Walker foc...
Collection of Materials by Robert E. Howard, Creator of Conan the Barbarian, is Donated to Ransom Center 12 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
Robert E. Howard's map of the Hyborian world. © Conan Properties International LLC. The Ransom Center has received a gift of materials related to writer Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), a prominent and ...
Tim O’Brien becomes first fiction writer to win Pritzker Award 7 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
Tim O'Brien. © Marion Ettlinger. Novelist Tim O’Brien has been awarded the 2013 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, marking the first time a ficti...
Unpacking the McSweeney’s archive 31 Jul 2013 | 07:04 pm
The McSweeney’s archive, like all collections, went through an inspection upon its arrival at the Ransom Center. Photo by Pete Smith. When a new archive arrives at the Ransom Center, it is quickly wh...
McSweeney’s archive acquired 31 Jul 2013 | 07:03 pm
Cover dummy of "McSweeney's Quarterly" Issue 38. The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the archive of the McSweeney’s publishing company. Founded in 1998 by Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s is considered one ...
Dramaturg uses archival materials to edit new version of Tennessee Williams play for production at The Old Vic 25 Jul 2013 | 09:23 pm
Kim Cattrall and Seth Numrich star in The Old Vic's production of "Sweet Bird of Youth." Dramaturg James Graham admits he had barely heard of Tennessee Williams’s Sweet Bird of Youth before starting ...
In the galleries: Norman Mailer’s handwritten draft of “The Fight” 24 Jul 2013 | 01:07 am
The opening page of Norman Mailer's handwritten draft of "The Fight." Norman Mailer once wrote, “[Boxing] arouses two of the deepest anxieties we contain. There is not only the fear of getting hurt, ...
In the galleries: David Foster Wallace’s copy of John McPhee’s “Levels of the Game” 18 Jul 2013 | 09:29 pm
David Foster Wallace's copy of John McPhee's "Levels of the Game." Considered one of the best books on tennis ever written, John McPhee’s 1969 publication Levels of the Game chronicles Arthur Ashe’s ...
In the galleries: Anna Krachey’s “Peacock Feathers” and Anna Atkins’s “Filament” 17 Jul 2013 | 09:18 pm
Anna Krachey, "Filament," 2012. Courtesy of artist. Anna Atkins, "Peacock Feathers." Although Anna Atkins and Anna Krachey share a first name, Krachey acknowledges a much deeper connection. A member...
