October 22, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1Thoughts during a pandemic on Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, and what ‘it’ is by JAMES ARNETT “Why was it so hard to see while it was happening that that was what was happening?” —URSULA K. LeGUIN, In and Out [1] “What’s ‘it’–what do you mean by ‘it’?” “O, anything–I mean–you know what I mean.” —VIRGINIA WOOLF, Kew Gardens typescript The walls have closed… read more
October 8, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingLISTEN SLOW: Researching Anne Sexton putting poetry her way by TANYA E. CLEMENT This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Annotated Audio: Anne Sexton Class Visit at Sweetbriar College, 1966 Recording annotations and transcription by Tanya Clement Anne Sexton Papers 1912-1996, R 0084, Harry Ransom Center. 17:10 Anne Sexton (AS): . . .… read more
June 26, 2020, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, FilmAll hail The Queen! An interview with drag historian Joe E. Jeffreys Inside the spring 2020 Stories to Tell exhibition, Ransom Center film curator Steve Wilson explores the archive related to the recently restored film, The Queen, which documents the 1967 “Miss All American Camp Beauty Pageant” held in Manhattan. The New York contest was a parody of the Miss America pageant… read more
