February 25, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingA very Texan story: Shelby Hearon writes Barbara Jordan’s biography People always want you to be born where you are. They want you to have leaped from the womb a public figure. It just doesn’t go that way. I am the composite of my experience and all the people who had something to do with it. And I’m going to… read more
October 25, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Digital Collections, Featured1The Digitized Dylan Thomas: The single word as thing, dropped on to the page “To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’ – and – rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”