December 1, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe passion to push the paradigm by DANIEL ARBINO This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? As a librarian at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin, I have been fortunate to carry values from my personal research journey and apply them to collection development… read more
November 23, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1Billy Collins virtual poetry reading and discussion set for Dec. 3 Billy Collins is one of the most widely read poets in America, and his witty, conversational poems illuminate the poignant details that often go unnoticed in everyday life. Within his archive at the Ransom Center are notebooks, drafts, proofs, and other documents relating to his poetry, essays, and other published… read more
November 23, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1EXCERPT: Famous Writers I Have Known by James Magnuson by JAMES MAGNUSON The following is excerpted from the book, Famous Writers I Have Known (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), by author James Magnuson. A small time con-man is posing as a famously reclusive writer named V. S. Mohle. He manages to get hired by a well-funded graduate writing program at a… read more
