April 12, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe Humours of Whist, a sophisticated play by David Levy After a fruitful visit to the Harry Ransom Center in January, I tweeted, “Who would have thought that I’d run into a Thomas J. Wise “sophistication” in my Hoyle research @ransomcenter?” Like so many tweets, this is a bit tough to parse. Let’s break it into pieces:… read more
April 11, 2018, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsParnassus on Wheels On National Bookmobile Day, the American Library Association celebrates the 930 bookmobiles in the United States that provide library services to their communities, an important form of library outreach that has been ongoing for more than 100 years.
April 5, 2018, Filed Under: ConservationNEH helps to break the sound barrier Rare sound recordings to be preserved and made accessible with grant For the first time, sound recordings documenting the work and lives of notable cultural figures such as Julia Alvarez, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Norman Bel Geddes, Norman Mailer, Anne Sexton, and Gloria Swanson will be publicly available for research.
