June 20, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingThe textual “truth” behind Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The book depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and… read more
June 13, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingThe silent novel in Radclyffe Hall’s ground-breaking The Well of Loneliness The English writer Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943) is best known for her lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). Pronounced obscene after a sensational and scandalous court case, it was banned
May 23, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching“Una historia de Cien años de soledad a través de sus documentos” “El problema es mío”, confesó García Márquez a un amigo por carta en julio de 1966, “que después de tantos años de trabajar como un animal, me siento agobiado de cansancio, sin perspectivas ciertas, salvo en el único terreno que me gusta y no me da de comer: la novela”.
