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Gabriel García Márquez’s republic of letters

December 1, 2016 - Amy Brown

Rapi Diego's "El sapo hechizado" (1997). Photos by Pete Smith.

I have always loved to catalog presentation copies of books—those given as a gift from one person to another, usually with a signature or inscription. They represent a tiny piece of the people involved, and allow me to feel a connection to some of my favorite authors. Gabriel García Márquez’s library was no exception. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s republic of letters

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging Tagged With: Alvaro Mutis, Amy Brown, Authors, Carlos Fuentes, catalog, El Sapo Hechizado, Eliseo Diego, Evidence, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez presentation library, La Historia Me Absolverá, Latin America, literature, Orhan Pamuk, presentation book, presentation copy, presentation library, Richard Avedon, The Museum of Innocence

Taking note of the Kazuo Ishiguro archive

June 15, 2016 - Stephen Enniss

Ishiguro as singer-songwriter in his early twenties, Broadoak, Kent, 1977. Ishiguro still plays guitar-and a number of other instruments-and composed lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent in 2007.

As Kazuo Ishiguro was preparing his archive for transfer to the Harry Ransom Center, he spent weeks sifting through the papers, making notes about the manuscripts and other documents he found in it. [Read more…] about Taking note of the Kazuo Ishiguro archive

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: An Artist of the Floating World, Authors, Kazuo Ishiguro, novelist, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Unconsoled

African American artists and writers in the Limited Editions Club

March 16, 2016 - Peter Mears

Dean Mitchell (b. 1957). Illustration for Maya Angelou's "Music, Deep Rivers in my Soul" (2003). Copyright Dean Mitchell.

The stories I selected span three decades and show (Zora Neal) Hurston’s diversity in writing styles and subject matter. I created my illustrations from fragments of fabric, paper and faded photos. The layering of images, patterns and textures evoke the feeling of memory and old tales retold. So they become, like the stories, “Bookmarks in the Pages of Life.”—Betye Saar, artist’s afterword to Bookmarks in the Pages of Life [Read more…] about African American artists and writers in the Limited Editions Club

Filed Under: Art, Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: African-American, artists, Authors, Benny Andrews, Betye Saar, Dean Mitchell, Flannery O’Connor, George Macy, illustrators, Jacob Lawrence, Jazz, Limited Editions Club, literature, Maya Angelou, poetry, Richard Wright, Romare Bearden, serigraph, Sid Shiff, silkscreen

Fellows Find: The Christine Brooke-Rose archive

June 16, 2015 - Stephanie Jones

Christine Brooke-Rose in her WAAF uniform before she went to Bletchley Park. She is on the right, shown with three other women.

Stephanie Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in the English and Creative Writing Department at Aberystwyth University. At the Ransom Center, she analyzed the Christine Brooke-Rose papers for her dissertation, which is a single-author study on the writer, looking at the neglect of her work as a British author by the industry. Jones’s research was supported by a 2014–2015 Dissertation Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center, jointly funded by the Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation and The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies.

 

The subject of neglected British experimental authors has emerged as a poignant topic of critical discussion over the last few years. Writers of the 1960s and 1970s who had been influenced by the Second World War, as well as the highly reflexive, avant-garde literature produced bysuch modernist heavyweights as James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Samuel Beckett, are beginning to be reassessed as having something useful to offer to the current critical climate. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: The Christine Brooke-Rose archive

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, Authors, Bletchley Park, Books, Christine Brooke-Rose, Christine Brooke-Rose Society, Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation, Ezra Pound, Fellows Find, Fellowships, James Joyce, literature, modernism, Natalie Ferris, Research, Samuel Beckett, Stephanie Jones, The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies

Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient,” discusses work with fellow writer

March 27, 2015 - Marlene Renz

Cover of Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient"

Acclaimed novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje converses with writer Geoff Dyer in a Harry Ransom Lecture on Tuesday, March 31, at 7 p.m. The event takes place in the Jessen Auditorium, in Homer Rainey Hall, across the plaza from the Ransom Center.

 

Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje’s work also encompasses poetry, memoir, and film. His Booker Prize–winning novel The English Patient was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film. His other works include his memoir Running in the Family, four collections of poetry, the non-fiction book The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, and his novels In the Skin of a Lion, Anil’s Ghost, Divisadero, and The Cat’s Table.

 

Ondaatje discusses his novels and poetry and his book on film editing, as well as research, editing, adapting books to film, and film as an art itself.

 

Audience members will be able to ask questions, and a reception and book signing follow at the Ransom Center.

 

The event is free and open to the public. Priority entry is available to Ransom Center members (one seat per membership card) who arrive by 6:20 p.m. Members arriving after 6:30 p.m. will join the general queue. Complimentary parking for Ransom Center members is available at the University Co-op garage at 23rd and San Antonio streets.

 

This program is presented by the University Co-op.

 

Cover of Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient"
Cover of Michael Ondaatje’s “The English Patient.”

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Authors, Film, Geoff Dyer, Lecture, Michael Ondaatje, Poets, Research, The English Patient

T. C. Boyle visits Ransom Center before tonight’s event at BookPeople

March 19, 2012 - Alicia Dietrich

T. C. Boyle tours the Ransom Center with Megan Barnard, Assistant Director for Acquisitions and Administration. Photo by Alicia Dietrich.
T. C. Boyle tours the Ransom Center with Megan Barnard, Assistant Director for Acquisitions and Administration. Photo by Alicia Dietrich.

Writer T. C. Boyle, whose archive was recently acquired by the Ransom Center, visited today while in Austin for a book tour stop promoting the paperback edition of his novel When the Killing’s Done.

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: archives, Authors, BookPeople, literature, Manuscripts, T. C. Boyle, When the Killing's Done

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