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in the John Herrmann collection during her fellowship at the Ransom Center, Sara Kosiba found a manuscript of an unpublished 1925 novel.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 27, 2019, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Poetry and War: A Reading and Conversation Commemorate World Poetry Day with a reading and conversation between two award-winning contemporary poets whose lives and writings have been impacted by war.
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
