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EXCERPT: Famous Writers I Have Known by James Magnuson

November 23, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

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by JAMES MAGNUSON

The following is excerpted from the book, Famous Writers I Have Known (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), by author James Magnuson. 

A small time con-man is posing as a famously reclusive writer named V. S. Mohle. He manages to get hired by a well-funded graduate writing program at a large university in Texas. Sound familiar? He has never written anything or been in a college classroom. Here’s what happens when he teaches his first class:   [Read more…] about EXCERPT: Famous Writers I Have Known by James Magnuson

Filed Under: Authors, Featured1 Tagged With: archive, James Magnuson, Michener Center for Writers

Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles

January 11, 2017 - Jennifer Tisdale

“We walk, or I do, to pay attention, to see the streets, the buildings that
surround us, to immerse ourselves in a world that might otherwise slip by.”
David Ulin in Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles [Read more…] about Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles

Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: David Ulin, Department of American Studies, events, Los Angeles, Michener Center for Writers, program, Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, Steve Hoelscher, University of California Press

Ransom Center staff to contribute to new Texas-themed UT Press book series

February 27, 2014 - Gabrielle Inhofe

Photo by Michael O'Brien.

The University of Texas Press recently announced the undertaking of the publishing project The Texas Bookshelf, a series of 16 books, with an accompanying website, focusing on all things Texan.  All books are to be written by faculty and staff at The University of Texas at Austin.  The inaugural book, to be released in 2017, will be a history of Texas written by Stephen Harrigan, faculty member at the Michener Center for Writers.  The subsequent books will focus on Texas history, business, culture, art, music, film, politics, and more.

Of the contributors, two are affiliated with the Harry Ransom Center.

Greg Curtis, Humanities Coordinator at the Ransom Center and Senior Lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin, plans to write a book on the history of Texas literature, with profiles of the lives of Texas writers and critical responses to their work.

Roy Flukinger, Senior Research Curator at the Ransom Center, will be writing and compiling a volume about the evolution and expansion of twentieth-century photography in Texas, which will feature hundreds of significant images created by important photographers and artists who worked throughout the state during that century.

Image: Photo of contributors to UT Press series The Texas Bookshelf by Michael O’Brien.

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Photography Tagged With: Art, Books, Greg Curtis, Michener Center for Writers, Photography, photohistory, Publishing, Roy Flukinger, Stephen Harrigan, Texas, The Texas Bookshelf, UT Press

Driftwood in an archive

June 28, 2012 - Jennifer Tisdale

Writer Jim Crace, author of Continent (1986), Arcadia (1992), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), and The Pesthouse (2007), speaks about ephermera in archives and the narratives and stories they provide.

Crace elaborates about a piece of driftwood found in his archive that contains a note that was later incorporated into his novel Signals of Distress (1996).

Enter by July 13 for a chance to win a signed copy of Crace’s Continent by visiting the Ransom Center’s Facebook page.

Crace will be in residence this fall at the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin. He will give a public reading on December 6.

Piece of driftwood in Jim Crace’s archive. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.
Piece of driftwood in Jim Crace’s archive. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: Arcadia, archive, Being Dead, Continent, ephermera, Jim Crace, Michener Center for Writers, Quarantine, Signals of Distress, The Pesthouse

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