May 24, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyView photos from “Postcards From America” event On Friday, May 13, the Ransom Center helped to launch Magnum Photos’s road trip Postcards from America project. The events began with an open bus where photography fans could meet and talk with Magnum photographers Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky, and writer Ginger Strand at… read more
May 19, 2011, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing ArtsQ and A: Playwright Tony Kushner speaks about influence of Tennessee Williams In light of the Ransom Center’s current exhibition Becoming Tennessee Williams, Cultural Compass spoke with Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner about Tennessee Williams’s legacy. Read a transcript of the interview with Kushner, in which he discusses how Williams has influenced him, his first encounter with Williams’s works,… read more
May 17, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: David Mamet’s "Homicide" outline David Mamet is one of America’s best-known and most celebrated playwrights and filmmakers. He has received numerous awards and honors for such plays as American Buffalo (1975), Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), Speed-the-Plow (1988), and Oleanna (1991), and films including The Verdict (1982), Homicide (1991), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), Wag the… read more
May 12, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyRansom Center helps to launch Magnum Photos’s “Postcards From America” “5 photographers, a writer, 2 weeks, a bus.” Thus begins a unique documentary project comprised of Magnum photographers Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky, and writer Ginger Strand, who will be traveling from San Antonio to Oakland from May 12 to May 26 on the first… read more
May 10, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingScholar explores work and career of writer Mulk Raj Anand Charlotte Nunes is a graduate student in English at The University of Texas at Austin. She used the Ransom Center collections to research her dissertation, “‘This Novel Social Fabric’: Transnational Anti-Imperialism and British Literary Modernity, 1913–1936.” One chapter examines Mulk Raj Anand’s novels Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936) in terms… read more
May 5, 2011, Filed Under: AuthorsNew short story collection by Ransom Center author Julian Barnes released this week Pulse, Julian Barnes’s new book of short stories, came out on Tuesday, May 3. Comprised of 14 stories, Barnes examines the mysteries of love, death, and friendship. The stories traverse Italian vineyards and English seasides, spanning from the eighteenth century to modern day. The Ransom Center acquired Barnes’s archive in… read more
