April 14, 2011, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsRansom Center receives collection of miniature books The Ransom Center recently received a gift of more than 60 miniature books from printer, collector, and aficionado Duane Scott, proprietor of the Scott Free Press. The gift includes books Scott printed under his Scott Free Press imprint, as well as examples published by others such as Achille J. St.… read more
March 8, 2011, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: "Lark and Termite" Born in West Virginia in 1952, writer Jayne Anne Phillips published her first story collection in 1976. The publication of Black Tickets in 1979 prompted Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer to call Phillips “the best short story writer since Eudora Welty.” Phillips’s subsequent publications, which have been praised for their poetic… read more
February 28, 2011, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingManaging editor at "The Strand" discusses publishing Dashiell Hammett story from Ransom Center’s collections After doing some detective work of his own, Andrew Gulli, managing editor of The Strand Magazine, located a previously unpublished short story by Dashiell Hammett at the Ransom Center. Untitled but nicknamed “So I Shot Him,” the short story has been published for the first time in The Strand’s current… read more
