Steven Soderbergh’s film And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) documents the life and work of the master monologist Spalding Gray (1941–2004) using only footage of Gray’s performances, interviews, and home movies with Gray and his family. Last year, the Ransom Center acquired Gray’s archive, which traces the author’s career since… read more
Fellows Find: Elizabeth Bowen and the Discourse of Propaganda
Stefania Porcelli of Libera Università- San Pio V in Rome, Italy, recently visited the Ransom Center on an Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf fellowship to research the Elizabeth Bowen collection. She shares some of her findings. With the support of an Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf fellowship, I… read more
View video of “Gernsheim Plays 20 Questions with George Bernard Shaw”
In this video clip from a 1978 interview, J. B. Colson, Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Fellow of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, asks Helmut Gernsheim about his letter collection of famous and contemporary photographers, including correspondence with George Bernard Shaw. In this clip, Gernsheim discusses how he… read more