June 11, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyNow open: “Literature and Sport” and “Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive” Two new exhibitions, Literature and Sport and Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive open today at the Ransom Center. Sport holds a sacred place in Western culture and literature. Writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Norman Mailer, Marianne Moore, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Foster Wallace… read more
March 14, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsAuthor W. K. Stratton Uses Norman Mailer Papers in "Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxing’s Invisible Champion" In Chicago in the fall of 1962, heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson squared up to face Sonny Liston, also known as “The Bear,” in a monumental fight. Liston, a former convict with ties to organized crime, seemed the opposite of the ambivalent and introspective Patterson, who was known to help an… read more
