December 17, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + TeachingEXCERPT: 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
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