Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. by VANESSA GUIGNERY In the fall of 2001, I was in Normandy with author Julian Barnes to take part in an event around his most successful novel, Flaubert’s Parrot (1984), when he told me with a wry smile… read more
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EXCERPT: Julian Barnes From the Margins: Exploring the Writer’s Archives
by VANESSA GUIGNERY The following is excerpted from the book, Julian Barnes From the Margins: Exploring the Writer’s Archive (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), by author Vanessa Guignery. The archives for each of Barnes’s novels reveal a composition pattern that starts with various notes about what to include, followed by several drafts containing… read more
The 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