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How the David Foster Wallace archive found a home at the Ransom Center
Materials and books from David Foster Wallace archive. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.The journey an archive takes from an author’s desk to the Ransom Center is often long and circuitous. The archive of...
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David Foster Wallace archive now open
Opening page of corrected proof of Wallace's 1996 essay 'Shipping Out: On the (Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise' for Harper's magazine.The archive of David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), author...
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Don DeLillo and David Mamet honored by PEN
Left, photo of Don DeLillo by Joyce Ravid. Right, photo of David Mamet by Pete Smith. Two writers whose archives reside at the Ransom Center received 2010 PEN Literary Awards. Novelist Don DeLillo...
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Culture Unbound: Collecting in the Twenty-First Century can be seen in the Ransom Center Galleries on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended Thursday hours to 7 p.m. On...
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In the Galleries: “Love and Relationships”
Photo by Anthony Maddaloni. In one of Tennessee Williams’s early writings in which he interviews himself, he identifies his audience as “the wild at heart kept in cages.” He also notes that the play...
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Win a signed copy of a Don DeLillo’s “White Noise”
'The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories' by Don DeLillo Author Don DeLillo, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, has released his first collection of short stories today. The Angel Esmeralda: Nine...
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Three Ransom Center authors announced as finalists for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner...
Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, and Anita Desai were selected as finalists for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Authors Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, and Anita Desai were selected as finalists for...
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Fellows Find: Scholar explores varied creative processes in David Foster...
Archival boxes in the Don DeLillo archive at the Harry Ransom Center. Photo by Alicia Dietrich. Mary Holland is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. She recently spent time working in...
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In the galleries: A page from the first draft of Don DeLillo’s “Underworld”
A page from the first draft of Don DeLillo's "Underworld." Don DeLillo once noted in an interview, “The significance of baseball, more than other sports, lies in the very nature of the game—slow and...
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