May 3, 2011, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingAlaskan explorer "Yukon" Yates publishes book about life’s adventures Walter “Yukon” Yates, 86, recently published the autobiography Breakaway, which documents his life as an Alaskan explorer, bush pilot, gold miner, airplane and airport builder, helicopter crash survivor, World War II veteran, documentary filmmaker, grizzly bear hostage, and all-around adventurer. Yates’s story was detailed by filmmaker Warren Skaaren (1946–1990) in… read more
April 28, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: The "Ruins of a Play" evolve into "The Glass Menagerie" Most people know Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie as the least disguised and most deeply autobiographical of Williams’s plays, the positive reception of which elevated him to immediate celebrity. He was applauded as loudly for Menagerie as he was booed for his previous play Battle of Angels. Williams later described… read more
April 26, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the galleries: David Foster Wallace’s affinity for grammar and usage David Foster Wallace, who was regarded by many as the best writer of his generation, was a talented essayist who was commissioned by several publications, from Harper’s and The Atlantic Monthly to Rolling Stone and Gourmet, to write on topics as disparate as a luxury cruise, tennis, the Illinois State… read more
April 21, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: "Girls! Girls! Girls! Did You Marry Your First ‘Gentlemen Caller’?" The 1950 screen version of The Glass Menagerie has been judged the “first and worst” adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play. Williams himself abhorred it as “the most awful travesty… horribly mangled,” lacking any vestige of the poetic techniques of the play. Although Williams helped to adapt the script, he… read more
April 19, 2011, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts“By Their Books Shall Ye Know Them” The Ransom Center holds the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. archive, which includes books published under the Borzoi imprint and books from Alfred A. and Blanche Knopf’s personal library. The Ransom Center’s Associate Director for Exhibitions and Fleur Cowles Executive Curator, Cathy Henderson, and Associate Director and Hobby Foundation Librarian, Richard… read more
April 14, 2011, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsRansom Center receives collection of miniature books The Ransom Center recently received a gift of more than 60 miniature books from printer, collector, and aficionado Duane Scott, proprietor of the Scott Free Press. The gift includes books Scott printed under his Scott Free Press imprint, as well as examples published by others such as Achille J. St.… read more
