http://youtu.be/26qenDioOxA Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the Peabody Award-winning network that is the leading authority on classic films, is a premier sponsor for the Harry Ransom Center’s exhibition The Making of Gone With The Wind, which opens September 9, 2014. In its 20th year of presenting uncut and commercial-free films, TCM… read more
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James Salter: What’s occupying my time lately
James Salter, author of A Sport and a Pastime and the acclaimed new novel All That Is, will discuss his life and work with Professor Thomas F. Staley tonight at 7 p.m. at the Ransom Center. Salter’s archive resides at the Center. Below, he updates Cultural Compass on what he’s been up to… read more
James Salter speaks this week at the Ransom Center
Writer James Salter, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, will discuss his life and work with Professor Thomas F. Staley on Thursday, November 7 at 7:00 p.m. Salter is the author of A Sport and a Pastime and the acclaimed new novel All That Is. He received the… read more
Zarzuelas: The music of the sueltas
As cataloging of the Texas collection of comedias sueltas continues at the Harry Ransom Center, new features about these plays continue to be identified. The sueltas collection comprises nearly 14,000 titles published from the second half of the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century. More than half of the… read more
Ransom Center’s Nuremberg Chronicle on view at the Blanton Museum
A copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle from the Ransom Center’s collections is on view at The University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art as part of the exhibition Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475–1540. The exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington with… read more
Jayne Anne Phillips publishes new novel
This October, Jayne Anne Phillips has released her newest novel, Quiet Dell. Described by Stephen King as “a compulsively readable story,” the novel is based on the true and mysterious murder of a widow and her children living in Quiet Dell, West Virginia. Phillips, whose archive resides at the Ransom… read more