February 27, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, PhotographyRansom Center staff to contribute to new Texas-themed UT Press book series The University of Texas Press recently announced the undertaking of the publishing project The Texas Bookshelf, a series of 16 books, with an accompanying website, focusing on all things Texan. All books are to be written by faculty and staff at The University of Texas at Austin. The inaugural book,… read more
February 25, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Film, Research + TeachingStanley et Anthony: A correspondence between Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess On the surface, it is a correspondence between friends: Did you read the book I sent? Did you like it? Generic questions for most, perhaps, but the inquiry was from Stanley Kubrick, and the questions concerning Arthur Schnitzler’s book Traumnovelle were addressed to Anthony Burgess. A series of letters… read more
February 13, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsHartley Coleridge’s Valentine’s Day sonnet As Elizabeth Bennet commented in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, poetry is not always the food of love. “If it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination,” she tells Mr. Darcy, “I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.” For Hartley Coleridge’s sake, let us… read more
