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A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

April 27, 2017 - Danielle Sigler

The first page of A Wild Plaint, 1909. Christopher Morley Collection.

In the midst of research for The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door exhibition, my former colleague Molly Schwartzburg alerted me to an unpublished manuscript she had located in the collection of writer and editor Christopher Morley (known today for his novel Parnassus on Wheels and his work on the editorial board of the Book-of-the-Month Club). [Read more…] about A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: A Wild Plaint, A. K. White, African American Review, African-American, Aubrey Grey, Chicago, Christopher Morley, Danielle Brune Sigler, diary, Doubleday, Fenton Johnson, fiction, manuscript, novel, poet, poetry

How a sun hat, an address book, and a character outline enhance Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

April 4, 2017 - Christine Lee

Gotham Book Mart photograph of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers, from the Tennessee Williams literary file.

“It has been said that loneliness is the great American malady. What is the nature of this loneliness? It would seem essentially to be a quest for identity.”—Carson McCullers’s essay “The Nature of Loneliness”

[Read more…] about How a sun hat, an address book, and a character outline enhance Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: book club, Carson McCullers, Christine Lee, collections, Lisa Pulsifer, literature, manuscript, member, Membership, novels, Tennessee Williams, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

I shout for a flower

March 21, 2017 - Jullianne Ballou

Gabriel García Márquez autographing a wine barrel, 2005. Photographer unknown.

An undeniable source of pleasure in archives is the appearance of a writer’s doodles in the margins of books and manuscripts. As we’ve digitized García Márquez’s papers for his online archive [Read more…] about I shout for a flower

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections Tagged With: archive, autograph, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, digitized, doodle, drawings, flower, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jullianne Ballou, manuscript, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Plinio Mendoza, Sharing Gabo with the World

“You talkin’ to me?” 

October 13, 2016 - Steve Wilson

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Forty years ago, Taxi Driver was released to critical and popular acclaim and its most famous line, “You talkin’ to me?” instantly became one of the most memorable lines in film history. [Read more…] about “You talkin’ to me?” 

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: acting, actor, Film, manuscript, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, performance, Robert De Niro, script, Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle

Handel’s famous 1727 coronation anthems get the royal treatment

January 5, 2016 - Justine Provino

Conservators and volunteers discussing techniques for removing stiff paper repairs

Justine Provino is a recent graduate of the Master of Conservation of Cultural Heritage program at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, in the Book and Paper Department with Professor Claude Laroque. From October 2014 through February 2015 she worked as an intern in the Ransom Center’s book lab with Senior Conservator Olivia Primanis, and in the paper lab with Conservator Heather Hamilton. [Read more…] about Handel’s famous 1727 coronation anthems get the royal treatment

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation Tagged With: conservation treatment, Coronation anthems, Handel, John Christopher Smith the Elder, manuscript, Music, musical score, Thomas Sedgley

ESCUCHE: A Gabriel García Márquez en su discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel

October 21, 2015 - Suzanne Krause

A bronze bust of Gabriel García Márquez alongside the busts of other writers in the entry alcove at the Ransom Center. Photo by Pete Smith.

Originario de Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez inició su carrera como periodista en la década de 1940, reportando desde Bogotá y Cartagena, y posteriormente como corresponsal internacional en Europa y Cuba. En 1961, se trasladó a la Ciudad de México. Junto con su prolífica carrera [Read more…] about ESCUCHE: A Gabriel García Márquez en su discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Digital Collections Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archivo de Gabriel García Márquez, audio, Discurso de aceptación Premio Nobel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, manuscript, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Premio Nobel de Literatura

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