January 13, 2014, Filed Under: AuthorsRansom Center acquires 21 J. D. Salinger letters The Ransom Center has acquired 21 previously unrecorded and unpublished letters by author J. D. Salinger. The letters are accessible as part of the Ransom Center’s existing Salinger collection, which includes published and unpublished manuscripts, galleys, page proofs, and correspondence. Most of the newly acquired letters are written by Salinger to… read more
January 7, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingResearch at the Ransom Center: “To Cape Town and back, via Mongolia” Perhaps one of the most distinctive features of J. M. Coetzee’s 1981 novel Waiting for the Barbarians is the setting—an imaginary empire, one lacking a specified place and time. Yet, when Coetzee penned the first draft of the novel, it was set in Cape Town, South Africa. David Attwell, a… read more
November 21, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyEditor of “Reading Magnum” explores Magnum Photos collection Steven Hoelscher, editor of Reading Magnum: A Visual Archive of the Modern World, will discuss the book at The Contemporary Austin tonight in an event hosted by Austin Center for Photography, University of Texas Press, and The Contemporary. The arrival in December 2009 of some 200,000 press prints from… read more
