Literary archive acquisition at U.T. Austin
Why do the archives of so many great writers end up in Texas? Acquisition is “chess, not checkers,” says Ransom Center director Tom Staley.
Why do the archives of so many great writers end up in Texas? Acquisition is “chess, not checkers,” says Ransom Center director Tom Staley.
John Lyon fought the impulse to tie Conrad’s The Secret Agent too closely to current events when introducing the OUP reissue.
I’m still haunted by the Jack Chick tracts my mom sold in her Christian bookstore when I was a kid — and now I’ll be haunted by Chick himself. (Via, via.)
Reading my friend Terry Teachout’s literary criticism tends to make me wish he wrote more of it. Over the years his praise has sent me off in search of many books — Cakes and Ale among them — that have since become favorites. Below I post for your enjoyment, and with permission, his introduction to Elaine Dundy’s highly entertaining The . . .
In a New Yorker podcast, Edwidge Danticat discusses “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie),” and Junot Díaz reads from the ’95 story.