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Richard Layman, Rivett published The Hunter and Other Stories, a collection of Hamett’s little-known and previously unpublished works.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
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
January 20, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingRare French “Cisiojanus” fragment identified in bookbinding through crowdsourcing project Farley P. Katz is a tax lawyer in San Antonio who collects rare books, manuscripts, and “too many other things.” He is one of the contributors to the medieval fragments project, a crowdsourcing research project headed by archivist Micah Erwin to identify fragments of medieval manuscripts bound into rare books… read more
