June 15, 2016, Filed Under: AuthorsTaking note of the Kazuo Ishiguro archive As Kazuo Ishiguro was preparing his archive for transfer to the Harry Ransom Center, he spent weeks sifting through the papers, making notes about the manuscripts and other documents he found in it.
June 14, 2016, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsRansom Center acquires archive of Indian author Raja Rao The Ransom Center has acquired the archive of Indian author and philosopher Raja Rao (1908-2006), recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and numerous other literary awards. Rao’s estate donated the archive to the Center.
June 9, 2016, Filed Under: Conservation, Research + TeachingBollinger gift establishes new conservation fellowship Thanks to a generous gift from Judy and Bill Bollinger, the Ransom Center announces its first post-graduate conservation fellow.
June 8, 2016, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. It’s spring: the “mud-luscious”’ and “puddle-wonderful” season whistled in by E. E. Cummings’s most famous poetic creature. He is the little, lame, queer, old man selling balloons: “the goat-footed balloonMan.”
May 31, 2016, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingFellows Find: David O. Selznick constructs a “natural beauty” Producer of movies and star identities
May 26, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmThis is not a film: Ransom Center screens Ross Lipman’s NOTFILM The Ransom Center presents a screening of Ross Lipman’s Notfilm, an experimental “kino-essay” charting the development and production of Samuel Beckett’s ambitious and enigmatic 1965 silent film project, Film, directed by Alan Schneider and starring silent-film actor Buster Keaton.
