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A novel discovery

April 7, 2019 - Austin Downey

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in the John Herrmann collection during her fellowship at the Ransom Center, Sara Kosiba found a manuscript of an unpublished 1925 novel.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. [Read more…] about A novel discovery

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: German, John Herrmann, Publishing, war

American publishing during the Cold War

February 19, 2019 - Austin Downey

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 and the USIA. Amid the scramble for influence during the Cold War, Franklin was tasked with disseminating books that promote American ideals throughout the developing world. [Read more…] about American publishing during the Cold War

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellowship, literature, Publishing, war

An interview with Nigel Newton, Founder of Bloomsbury Publishing

November 12, 2018 - Jared Neuharth

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. [Read more…] about An interview with Nigel Newton, Founder of Bloomsbury Publishing

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