Nicolás Pernett (Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia) discusses his research interests in advance of his visit to the Ransom Center.
Books + Manuscripts
A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson
In the midst of research for The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door exhibition, my former colleague Molly Schwartzburg alerted me to an unpublished manuscript she had located in the collection of writer and editor Christopher Morley (known today for his novel Parnassus on Wheels and his work on the editorial board… read more
Biographer B. Alexandra Szerlip on Norman Bel Geddes’s life and legacy
Norman Bel Geddes was one of the great visionaries of the twentieth century. An industrial designer, known best for his contribution to the Futurama exhibition at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, Bel Geddes experimented with