May 19, 2011, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing ArtsQ and A: Playwright Tony Kushner speaks about influence of Tennessee Williams In light of the Ransom Center’s current exhibition Becoming Tennessee Williams, Cultural Compass spoke with Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner about Tennessee Williams’s legacy. Read a transcript of the interview with Kushner, in which he discusses how Williams has influenced him, his first encounter with Williams’s works,… 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After doing some detective work of his own, Andrew Gulli, managing editor of The Strand Magazine, located a previously unpublished short story by Dashiell Hammett at the Ransom Center.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February 23, 2011, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsHow are unpublished manuscripts unearthed at the Ransom Center?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 Every so often, researchers strike scholarly gold: locating and publishing previously unpublished works. The most recent unearthing at the Ransom Center are unpublished short stories by crime writer Dashiell Hammett, whose archive resides… read more
