October 25, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Digital Collections, Featured1The Digitized Dylan Thomas: The single word as thing, dropped on to the page “To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’ – and – rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”
October 4, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1Printing manuscripts In order to understand the Gutenberg Bible, it is critical to remember that it is a medieval book that was designed to satisfy the needs of medieval readers. Today, we expect pages in most books to be black and white. To navigate what we read, we rely on variations in… read more
September 28, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film, Research + TeachingLove and jazz Maxine Gordon has loved jazz music all her life. From going to hear Miles Davis and John Coltrane as a teenager, to working as a road manager and promoter when she was a young woman, to becoming the personal manager and ultimately the wife of one of the most influential… read more
September 27, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsFree daily exhibition tours of Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance Tour Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance Through January 6, 2019
September 10, 2018, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsNotebooks illuminate creative process behind Billy Collins’s poem “The Names” This story originally appeared January 21, 2014. Among the papers in the recently acquired Billy Collins archive are materials related to his poem “The Names,” which was written to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Interspersed throughout the poem are the names of 26 victims of the… read more
September 7, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsTerrence McNally at 80 In partnership with ZACH Theatre, the Ransom Center presents a screening and conversation with playwright Terrence McNally on Sunday, November 11, at 2 p.m. Terrence McNally is one of the most enduring and respected American playwrights, responsible for over 80 plays, musicals, and opera librettos over the past 50 years.
