November 20, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1IN FLIGHT: Don DeLillo’s The Silence by HENRY VEGGIAN As hard as it may be to do, try to ignore the warning. That’s what I tell myself, but it’s still there, on the inside flap of the dust jacket. It has the tone of a press release, but it sounds more like the car horn you… read more
January 15, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Revealing an English Schoolmaster’s Piers Plowman Most of the books that came to The University of Texas at Austin as part of the John Henry Wrenn Library didn’t look like old books when they arrived in 1918 and still don’t look old now—not as old, at least, as the publication dates of the printed pages inside… read more
September 2, 2016, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, ConservationTreatment of A Brief and General Account of the First Part of the Life of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield Treatment of A Brief and General Account of the First Part of the Life of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield (1740) by George Whitefield was recently completed
