March 6, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingQ&A: New collection of Dashiell Hammett stories required detective work in Ransom Center’s collection Julie M. Rivett is the granddaughter of Dashiell Hammett, celebrated twentieth-century novelist and author of The Maltese Falcon. Together with Richard Layman, Rivett published The Hunter and Other Stories, a collection of Hamett’s little-known and previously unpublished works. The book—which includes screenplays, short stories, and unfinished narratives—largely draws from… read more
February 27, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, PhotographyRansom Center staff to contribute to new Texas-themed UT Press book series The University of Texas Press recently announced the undertaking of the publishing project The Texas Bookshelf, a series of 16 books, with an accompanying website, focusing on all things Texan. All books are to be written by faculty and staff at The University of Texas at Austin. The inaugural book,… read more
February 13, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsHartley Coleridge’s Valentine’s Day sonnet As Elizabeth Bennet commented in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, poetry is not always the food of love. “If it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination,” she tells Mr. Darcy, “I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.” For Hartley Coleridge’s sake, let us… read more
