Harry Ransom Center

The Undergraduate Visitor to the Harry Ransom Center

Elana Estrin | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: University, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Samuel Beckett, Anne Sexton, UT Austin, Undergraduates, Undergraduate Education, Harry Ransom, Harry Ransom Center, Universities, Robert De Niro, The University of Texas at Austin, Video, Education News
Elana Estrin

Since its founding, the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has been an important re...

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Author T. C. Boyle's Archive Acquired by Harry Ransom Center

Elana Estrin | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: The New Yorker, Harper's, PEN/Faulkner, When the Killing's Done, The Atlantic, University of Southern California, World's End, Esquire, T. C. Boyle Stories, PEN/Malamud, McSweeney's, The Tortilla Curtain, Harry Ransom Center, T.C. Boyle, The University of Texas at Austin, Ransom Center, Books News
Elana Estrin

Spanning more than 30 years, from the 1970s through the present, and featuring manuscripts, correspondence, professional files and teaching material the archive covers the breadth of T.C. Boyle's prolific career.

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Book Chronicles "Postcards From America" Road Trip With Magnum Photographers

Elana Estrin | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Paolo Pellegrin, Ginger Strand, MSD Capital, Photography, Postcards From America, Jim Goldberg, Magnum Photos, Susan Meiselas, Alec Soth, Harry Ransom Center, Mikhael Subotzky, Arts News
Elana Estrin

In May 2011, five photographers and one writer hopped on an R.V. and launched a two-week road trip from Texas to California. 1,750 miles and thousands of photographs later, the result of the "Postcards From America" road trip is a limited-edition book released this week.

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Scholar Discovers Missing Bassoon Line in Ravel Manuscript

Elana Estrin | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: New York Philharmonic, Maurice Ravel, Harry Ransom Center, Ravel Bassoon, Ravel Bassoon Manuscript, Ravel Mother Goose, Arts News
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Saturday marks the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Maurice Ravel's "Mother Goose" ballet suite. Just in time for its centennial, a Ravel scholar has discovered that orchestras have been playing the piece incorrectly for the past 100 years.

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Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Mishkenot Sha?Ananim, Kenwood House, Sigmund Freud, Alma Singer, Bruno Schulz, Pinochet, The Moomintroll Series, Georges Perec, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fleur Cowles, Man Walks Into a Room, Evelyn Waugh, John Fowles, Haim Hazaz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, National Book Award, Yehuda Amichai, Rembrandt, Franz Kafka, Jerusalem Cultural Fellowship, Saul Bellow, Peter Handke, Jerusalem, John Foster Dulles, Susan Sontag, Amos Oz, Zbigniew Herbert, Chile, Tove Jansson, Francis Bacon, Courtauld Institute in London, Nicole Krauss, The Last Jew, Great House, Hampstead Heath, The History of Love, Yoel Hoffmann, Samuel Beckett, Yoram Kaniuk, David Grossman, Israel, Harry Ransom Center, Thomas Bernhard, Books We Love, Books News
Elana Estrin

While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.

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What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Muhammad Ali, Marcel Proust, Irving Hoffman, Carlton Lake, John Steinbeck, Morris Ernst, Reynaldo Hahn, Joan Rivers, A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Garver, Coen Brothers, David Mamet, Norman Mailer, Mel Gussow, Letters, Slidepollajax, Harry Ransom Center, Celebrities, Culture News
Elana Estrin

Correspondence can speak volumes about the letter-writer. From idiosyncratic letterheads to sketches, stamps, cartoons and multiple-choice form letters, what do a letter's illustrations reveal?

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University Of Texas Hits 'Gone With The Wind' Dress Donation Target

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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AUSTIN, Texas — Legions of "Gone With the Wind" fans have together donated tens of thousands of dollars to prove they, frankly, do give a you-kn...

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PHOTOGRAPHY: Marilyn Monroe, Martin Parr - Magnum Photos Made Public

artinfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Martin Parr, Marilyn Monroe, University of Texas-Austin, David Coleman, Magnum Photos, Harry Ransom Center, Arts News

AUSTIN - Next week, the archive of Magnum Photos, which contains images by master photographers like Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Susan Meisela...

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