April 6, 2010, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsAnthony Bertram Rota’s legacy at the Ransom Center The Ransom Center notes with great sorrow the death of Anthony Bertram Rota on December 13, 2009. As managing director and chairman of Bertram Rota Ltd, the London-based antiquarian bookseller was greatly influential in shaping the Center’s renowned holdings of the papers of numerous nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first–century British writers.… read more
March 23, 2010, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsMaterials from David Foster Wallace collection Please click the thumbnails to view larger images.
March 16, 2010, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsNorman Mailer’s "real" Facebook Facebook. No doubt you’ve heard of it. But did you know that the origin of Facebook really comes from the concept of a “freshman facebook”? Many universities publish and distribute a yearbook of sorts to its incoming freshman students that includes registrants’ photos and a few biographical details about them.… read more
