April 7, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingA novel discovery While doing research in the John Herrmann collection during her fellowship at the Ransom Center, Sara Kosiba found a manuscript of an unpublished 1925 novel. Titled Foreign Born, it tells the story of Ernst Weiman, a German immigrant living in the fictional town of Fairbanks, Michigan during World War I.
February 19, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingAmerican publishing during the Cold War In Amanda Laugesen’s new book, the novel is an object of war. In Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), Laugesen tells the story of Franklin Publications, a publishing company created in 1952 as a joint project between American publishers… read more
November 12, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1An interview with Nigel Newton, Founder of Bloomsbury Publishing Nigel Newton is an American-born British publisher who was raised in San Francisco and moved to England to do his degree in English from Selwyn College, Cambridge. Newton is the founder and chief executive of Bloomsbury Publishing, one of the world’s leading independent publishing companies.
