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 12, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsThe Paris Review celebrates James Salter Month James Salter is being honored later this month with The Paris Review’s Hadada Prize, which is awarded annually to a “distinguished member of the literary community who has demonstrated a strong and unique commitment to literature.” The award will be presented to Salter by Robert Redford, who, in an unrelated… read more
April 8, 2011, Filed Under: UncategorizedPreview archive materials related to Wallace’s posthumous novel “The Pale King” Archive materials relating to David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel The Pale King is now available on the Ransom Center’s website. The preview, a collaboration between the Center and publisher Little, Brown and Company, includes a series of drafts of the “Author’s Foreword,” which eventually became chapter nine of The Pale… read more
