September 7, 2012, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsIain Sinclair’s "Ghost Milk" includes visit to Austin Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins of London on the Eve of the Olympics (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), the latest work by British writer-filmmaker Iain Sinclair, explores the changes in East London as the city prepared for the 2012 Olympics and concludes with his visit to the… read more
September 5, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingResearch fellowships in the humanities The Harry Ransom Center is now receiving applications for its 2013–2014 research fellowships in the humanities. The application deadline is February 1, 2013. Information about the fellowships and the application process is available online. More than 50 fellowships in the humanities are awarded annually by the Ransom Center to support… read more
August 30, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsPhil Patton offers reading recommendations relating to “Visions of the Future” In conjunction with the exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America, the Harry Ransom Center hosts “Visions of the Future,” the tenth biennial Flair Symposium. The Flair Symposium honors the ideals set forth by Fleur Cowles and her landmark Flair magazine. From November 1-3, the Ransom… read more
August 27, 2012, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsEditor recounts working with David Foster Wallace on 1996 U.S. Open piece In 1995, Jay Jennings, a former editor of Tennis magazine, commissioned David Foster Wallace to write an article about the U.S. Open, which was published as “Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open” one year later. In 2010, Jennings contributed a file of corrected proofs and correspondence to the… read more
August 15, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingKraus map collection now accessible The Ransom Center recently launched an online database for its Kraus map collection. The 36-map collection, acquired in 1969 by Harry Ransom from the New York antiquarian dealer Hans P. Kraus, features a wide range of individual maps of Europe and America, atlases, a rare set of large terrestrial and… read more
August 9, 2012, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsPenguin and the Paperback Revolution Click on the four-way arrow in the bottom right-hand corner of the slideshow to convert into full-screen mode. According to popular mythology, the publisher Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, formulated his idea for a press dedicated exclusively to paperbacks while visiting a railway station. Having spent the weekend visiting… read more
