March 5, 2019, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingThe word on the streets During the modernist era, writers experimented with the language of the street in their works. Brooks Hefner’s The Word on the Streets explores how multiple writers of different genres used street slang to emphasize classism through dialect. At the Ransom Center, Hefner consulted the archives of influential detective fiction writers… read more
February 25, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingA very Texan story: Shelby Hearon writes Barbara Jordan’s biography People always want you to be born where you are. They want you to have leaped from the womb a public figure. It just doesn’t go that way. I am the composite of my experience and all the people who had something to do with it. And I’m going to… read more
February 19, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingAmerican publishing during the Cold War In Amanda Laugesen’s new book, the novel is an object of war. In Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), Laugesen tells the story of Franklin Publications, a publishing company created in 1952 as a joint project between American publishers… read more
