December 20, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsThree degrees of separation: Industrial designers find inspiration with Norman Bel Geddes Scott Lauffer, an Industrial Design Director at Dell’s Enterprise Product Group, recently visited the exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America with a group of colleagues, primarily industrial designers and engineers. The group takes occasional offsite visits to find inspiration. This is the third visit… read more
August 27, 2012, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsEditor recounts working with David Foster Wallace on 1996 U.S. Open piece In 1995, Jay Jennings, a former editor of Tennis magazine, commissioned David Foster Wallace to write an article about the U.S. Open, which was published as “Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open” one year later. In 2010, Jennings contributed a file of corrected proofs and correspondence to the… read more
April 24, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingScholar reads between the lines in new Lillian Hellman biography Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of History at Columbia University, made several trips to the Ransom Center between 2003 and 2011. Her biography, A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman, will be published by Bloomsbury Press on April 24. She has written many books,… read more
