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Flash Fiction Collection established at the Ransom Center

April 27, 2020 - Megan Barnard

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More than 250 books and journals were recently donated to establish a Flash Fiction Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The collection includes anthologies, journals, chapbooks, single-author collections, and books about the writing of flash fiction. [Read more…] about Flash Fiction Collection established at the Ransom Center

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Featured1 Tagged With: Acquisitions, archive, fiction, writers

Author T. C. Boyle on campus for a night of literature and discussion

November 17, 2015 - Kathleen Telling

The Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin presents acclaimed author T. C. Boyle at the University’s Avaya Auditorium on Thursday, November 19, at 7:30 p.m. The event is held in conjunction with The Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies (TILTS) public forum, exploring the placement of environmentalism within the humanities. Boyle will be reading a fictional work rooted in the environmentalist themes presented by the TILTS symposium. [Read more…] about Author T. C. Boyle on campus for a night of literature and discussion

Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: book reading, literature, Michener Center, readings, T. C. Boyle, writers

“Global Gabo:” Q&A with Naomi Lindstrom

October 27, 2015 - Naomi Lindstrom

Naomi Lindstrom

Naomi Lindstrom is the Gale Family Foundation Professor in Jewish Arts and Culture, a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin, and Associate Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies. Lindstrom is also a graduate faculty member in Comparative Literature and manages the website for the Latin American Jewish Association. [Read more…] about “Global Gabo:” Q&A with Naomi Lindstrom

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Cesar Salgado, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Flair Symposium, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: His Life and Legacy, Latin American literature, literature, Naomi LIndstrom, Nobel Prize, Religion, writers

Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez

October 22, 2015 - Megan Barnard

The cover of the carbon typescript of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba [No One Writes to the Colonel], 1957.
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Alguna vez  Gabriel García Márquez comentó que creía que la principal razón por la cual los escritores leen las novelas de otros, era para aprender cómo las escribieron.  Para el laureado con este Premio Nobel los libros tenían una importancia tremenda, y con frecuencia escribía o hablaba de los autores que más habían influido en él. [Read more…] about Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archives, collecting, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Manuscripts, William Faulkner, writers

The company we keep: Gabriel García Márquez’s literary influences

October 22, 2015 - Megan Barnard

A bronze bust of Gabriel García Márquez by artist Kate Murray. Photo by Pete Smith.
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Gabriel García Márquez once said that he believed the main reason writers read the novels of others is to learn for themselves how the books had been written. Books were tremendously important to this Nobel laureate, and he wrote and spoke frequently about the writers who most influenced his own work. [Read more…] about The company we keep: Gabriel García Márquez’s literary influences

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, Books, collecting, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Manuscripts, William Faulkner, writers

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