May 19, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1Storytelling Is How We Stay Connected: An Interview With Oscar Cásares by RICARDO CASTRO AGUDELO The papers of Oscar Cásares—a Creative Writing Professor at The University of Texas at Austin and author of the award-winning books Brownsville: Stories (2003), Amigoland (2009), and Where We Come From (2019)—are now housed at the Ransom Center. Cásares grew up in a house with no… read more
May 18, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #6 Harry Ransom Center Book Collection #6: James Joyce’s Ulysses (Published for the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, Paris,1922), inscribed by Joyce for Jane Heap by CLARE HUTTON This is the sixth article in a series devoted to objects that tell the story of women who supported author James Joyce… read more
May 9, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1Archive charts Lisa Alther’s extensive literary career First page of an edited draft of Lisa Alther’s Kinflicks, ca. 1975. Lisa Alther Papers. Harry Ransom Center. The Ransom Center is now home to the papers of bestselling American writer Lisa Alther (b. 1944), whose works frequently explore cultural stereotypes—particularly those relating to women—with wit and humor. Alther is… read more
