war

April 7, 2019 - Austin Downey

A novel discovery

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

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in the John Herrmann collection during her fellowship at the Ransom Center, Sara Kosiba found a manuscript of an unpublished 1925 novel.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 - Suzanne Krause

Poetry and War: A Reading and Conversation

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection, poet, poetry, war

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 - Austin Downey

American publishing during the Cold War

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