March 13, 2014, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsSix Degrees of Separation: “True Detective” and the Ransom Center I am already missing Rust Cohle, Marty Hart, and sinister references to the “Yellow King.” If you are not sure what I am talking about, it’s the first season of the HBO crime series True Detective. A ritualistic murder investigation set against a backdrop of oil refineries in the swamps… read more
March 6, 2014, Filed Under: Art, Books + ManuscriptsCorrespondence sheds light on illustrations for articles by landscape design critic Mariana Van Rensselaer Biographer Judith Major’s recent book Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer: A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age (University of Virginia Press) highlights the work of the pioneering landscape critic, and Major quotes from one of the letters in the Ransom Center’s Elizabeth and Joseph Pennell papers for her book. Joseph Pennell… read more
March 6, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingQ&A: New collection of Dashiell Hammett stories required detective work in Ransom Center’s collection Julie M. Rivett is the granddaughter of Dashiell Hammett, celebrated twentieth-century novelist and author of The Maltese Falcon. Together with Richard Layman, Rivett published The Hunter and Other Stories, a collection of Hamett’s little-known and previously unpublished works. The book—which includes screenplays, short stories, and unfinished narratives—largely draws from… read more
