March 30, 2012, Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: Marc Chagall’s "Let My People Go" from "The Story of Exodus" From the very beginning of printing, the Bible was regarded as the ultimate challenge. It presented printers and artists with the daunting task of creating an appropriate medium for communicating sacred text. They met this challenge with widely divergent methods. Some favored sharp, clean typography and traditional artistic approaches, placing… read more
March 26, 2012, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsNew David Foster Wallace materials to be on display during Wallace Symposium On Thursday, April 5, the Ransom Center kicks off The David Foster Wallace Symposium with a public event featuring Wallace’s literary agent, Bonnie Nadell, and his editor, Michael Pietsch, in conversation with Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin. The free, public event will take place at 7 p.m. (C.S.T.)… read more
March 21, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingNew book explores origins of Watergate’s Deep Throat Author and journalist Max Holland accessed the Ransom Center’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Watergate Papers while researching his book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (University Press of Kansas, 2012), which is now available. Holland describes his work at the Center: The genesis of Leak: Why Mark Felt… read more
