March 8, 2011, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: "Lark and Termite" Born in West Virginia in 1952, writer Jayne Anne Phillips published her first story collection in 1976. The publication of Black Tickets in 1979 prompted Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer to call Phillips “the best short story writer since Eudora Welty.” Phillips’s subsequent publications, which have been praised for their poetic… read more
March 3, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingThe Writer’s Project: Searching for something to say Noah Gordon is a Master of Arts student in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He teaches tenth grade American Literature as a student teacher at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. He recently spent time at the Ransom Center gathering materials to use in… read more
February 28, 2011, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingManaging editor at "The Strand" discusses publishing Dashiell Hammett story from Ransom Center’s collections After doing some detective work of his own, Andrew Gulli, managing editor of The Strand Magazine, located a previously unpublished short story by Dashiell Hammett at the Ransom Center. Untitled but nicknamed “So I Shot Him,” the short story has been published for the first time in The Strand’s current… read more
February 23, 2011, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsHow are unpublished manuscripts unearthed at the Ransom Center? Research in archival libraries like the Harry Ransom Center can be a bit of a treasure hunt. Every so often, researchers strike scholarly gold: locating and publishing previously unpublished works. The most recent unearthing at the Ransom Center are unpublished short stories by crime writer Dashiell Hammett, whose archive resides… read more
February 15, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingScholar discusses relationship between Jewish and African-American culture in the early twentieth century Lori Harrison-Kahan, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Boston College, spent a week at the Ransom Center in July 2009 to conduct research for her recently published book, The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary. Her research was supported by a Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish… read more
February 10, 2011, Filed Under: Research + Teaching"The Library Chronicle" now available online Volumes of The Library Chronicle from 1970 to 1997 are now digitized and available online in a full-text, keyword-searchable digital library. The Library Chronicle was an award-winning journal that included scholarly articles on collection materials, complete exhibition catalogs, and descriptions of important rare book and manuscript holdings at the Ransom… read more
