September 19, 2011, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + EventsQ&A: Author Nicole Krauss While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead. “Beyond looking at his paintings, no amount of research would ever take me there. But a novel might,” Krauss said.… read more
July 27, 2011, Filed Under: AuthorsTwo Ransom Center authors long listed for 2011 Man Booker Prize Authors Julian Barnes and Sebastian Barry, both featured in the Ransom Center’s current exhibition Culture Unbound: Collecting in the Twenty-First Century, were selected for the long list of nominees for the Man Booker Prize. The Ransom Center holds the archives of Barnes and Barry. Barnes was nominated for his novel… read more
June 14, 2011, Filed Under: AuthorsScience fiction writer Bruce Sterling donates collection of materials to Ransom Center American science fiction writer Bruce Sterling has donated a collection of materials to the Ransom Center. Sterling, an alumnus of the University, is known as one of the co-founders of the “cyberpunk” movement in the 1980s, with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, and others. In Sterling’s introduction to Mirrorshades:… read more
