The Ransom Center is now home to the papers of National Book Award–winning writer Lily Tuck. Tuck is the author of seven novels, including The News from Paraguay (2004), Siam or The Woman Who Shot a Man (1999), I Married You for Happiness (2011), and Sisters (2017); three story collections, including her most recent book Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories (2020); and the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante (2008). Her archive offers a fascinating record of her career through manuscripts and drafts, unpublished stories, notes, research materials, and correspondence with authors and editors such as Roger Angell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Gordon Lish, among other materials. Shortly after the arrival of her papers at the Ransom Center, Lily Tuck answered a number of questions about her writing life and her archive.
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What is research but a conversation in search of the truth?
by IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. [Read more…] about What is research but a conversation in search of the truth?
Fellowships awarded to UT-Austin faculty and graduate students
The Harry Ransom Center has awarded over a dozen fellowships for 2021-2022 to The University of Texas at Austin faculty and graduate students through the Center’s new UT-Austin Fellowship program. The new fellows reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the Center’s collections and represent a wide range of departments, programs, and schools across the university. [Read more…] about Fellowships awarded to UT-Austin faculty and graduate students
A lost work by Langston Hughes
In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race, unpublished in English until 2019. [Read more…] about A lost work by Langston Hughes
TIME TO REST: Rethinking disability and research
by COYOTE SHOOK
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. [Read more…] about TIME TO REST: Rethinking disability and research
Highlights from an unprecedented year
It was not the year we anticipated, hoped for, or a year we would want to repeat. The first rumblings of the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, escalated in February, and eventually erupted in our community in March when the Center closed its doors to in-person visits and staff began working remotely. What happened next was a natural shift to expanding the Center’s online presence throughout the year. [Read more…] about Highlights from an unprecedented year