August 25, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, ConservationPreserving “The Eyes of Texas” The Harry Ransom Center recently treated a document near and dear to its home. The original manuscript for “The Eyes of Texas,” the alma mater for The University of Texas at Austin, was in need of conservation. The Texas Exes, the alumni organization which holds the manuscript, brought the framed… read more
August 24, 2015, Filed Under: AuthorsKazuo Ishiguro’s “Notes on some GREAT WRITERS” Within Kazuo Ishiguro’s archive are some of his notes on great writers as well as thoughts about films. Some are handwritten while others are typed. Ishiguro has been, in his own words, “putting random, impromptu thoughts of books read (sometimes films seen with particular emphasis on useful lessons, etc, for… read more
August 21, 2015, Filed Under: AuthorsRansom Center to acquire archive of Kazuo Ishiguro The Ransom Center is acquiring the archive of novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. Translated into more than 40 languages, Ishiguro’s fiction has received numerous awards, from the Booker Prize for Fiction for “The Remains of the Day” (1989) to the Whitbread Book of the Year award for “An Artist of the Floating… read more
