April 22, 2010, Filed Under: Authors, Research + TeachingCorporal Dashiell Hammett’s "The Battle of the Aleutians: A Graphic History, 1942–1943" A few weeks ago, the Ransom Center received as a gift an unusual volume to add to our holdings of hard-boiled detective writer Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961). Kevin Berger, a journalist from New York, donated this booklet, which Hammett wrote for the U.S. military while he was stationed in the Aleutian… read more
April 14, 2010, Filed Under: Authors, Research + TeachingJim Crace papers now open for research The papers of British writer Jim Crace, author of acclaimed works Continent (1986), Arcadia (1992), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), and The Pesthouse (2007), are now open at the Ransom Center. A finding aid of the collection can be accessed online. The Center acquired Crace’s archive in 2008. The collection… read more
April 13, 2010, Filed Under: Research + TeachingA Small Gem of Negativity: The Decline Postcard Timothy Ferris has recently blogged about Edmund Wilson’s “decline letter,” a form postcard listing all of the things the crotchety literary critic refused to do: read manuscripts, advise authors, address meetings, donate and inscribe books—the list goes on and on. The same postcard may be found in the Ransom Center’s… read more
