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
January 31, 2011, Filed Under: Digital Collections, PhotographyDigital collection highlights photos taken in Corpus Christi during Great Depression The Ransom Center has made available online the digital collection “The Itinerant Photographer: Photographs of Corpus Christi Businesses in the 1930s.” The collection highlights photographs taken of businesses in Corpus Christi during the Great Depression. The project to make these materials accessible online was funded by a TexTreasures grant from… read more
December 16, 2010, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyView video of “Gernsheim Plays 20 Questions with George Bernard Shaw” In this video clip from a 1978 interview, J. B. Colson, Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Fellow of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, asks Helmut Gernsheim about his letter collection of famous and contemporary photographers, including correspondence with George Bernard Shaw. In this clip, Gernsheim discusses how he… read more
