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Turning Pages: Why we love to read jottings by authors in the books they read

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 07 Apr 2016
Tatiana, the heroine of Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin, is besotted by Onegin and tries to get to know him by studying his private library ... As Tatiana finds out, getting to know a person through their books has both its illuminations and its disillusions ... He scribbled ... Advertisement ... Oram is associate director of the Harry Ransom Centre at the University of Texas, which owns more authors' libraries than any other institution ... ....

An International Advocacy Group for Freedom of Expression Started as a Social Club

Edit Time Magazine 06 Apr 2016
This post is in partnership with the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin ... In the course of researching how South Asian writers circulated in literary London between the World Wars, I spent some time immersed in the Harry Ransom Center’s expansive P.E.N ... She visited the Harry Ransom Center in June 2015 to conduct research on ......

Best of Austin arts: April 3-9

Edit Austin American Statesman 02 Apr 2016
Theater. “She Loves Me.” Clashing co-workers are actually secret pen pal lonely-hearts in this delightful 1960s hit musical now given a new staging by St. Edward’s theater program. Opens Thursday and continues through April 17. Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward’s University, 3001 S. Congress Ave. $22-$27. 512-448-8484, stedwards.edu/mary-moody-northen-theatre ... “Look Inside ... Harry Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st St ... ....

Governor Abbott Names Chair And Appoints Nine To The Technical Advisory Committee To The Bureau Of Economic Geology (The Office of the Governor of the State of Texas)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Mar 2016
(Source. The Office of the Governor of the State of Texas) ... He is a member of The University of Texas System Chancellor's Council Executive Committee, Harry Ransom Center Advisory Board and the McDonald Observatory and Department of Astronomy Board of Visitors and a life member of The University of Texas at Austin Development Board, President's Associates, Texas Exes and Texas Cowboys Alumni Association ... Original Document ... (noodl....

See the stars and the cowboys at next week’s free events

Edit Austin American Statesman 26 Feb 2016
Sunday. SuperEtte In-Store performance. Local punk rock band SuperEtte will release their second EP this weekend. They’re celebrating with a free live performance at Waterloo Records. Refreshments will be provided by Shiner Beer. 5 p.m. Waterloo Records, 600A N. Lamar Blvd. 512-474-2500, waterloorecords.com ... This is a view of bar and lounge area of the hotel ... 10 a.m.-5 p.m ... Harry Ransom Center, 300 W ... Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center ... 6 a.m....

Scary Old Sex by Arlene Heyman review – lusty, tough and life-affirming

Edit The Guardian 25 Feb 2016
A literary muse breaks her silence in these warts-and-all tales about elderly lovers. The graphic, funny, tender and shocking stories in New York psychiatrist Arlene Heyman’s debut collection are aptly titled ... Old sex is both scary and farcical ... plans had to be drawn up, equipment in tiptop condition” ... The letters are now in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin ... • Elaine Showalter’s A Jury of Her Peers ... ....

UT Regents present highest honor to The Sealy & Smith Foundation (The University of Texas ...

Edit Public Technologies 12 Feb 2016
(Source. The University of Texas System). GALVESTON-The University of Texas System Board of Regents Wednesday night presented the Santa Rita Award to The Sealy & Smith Foundation for its longtime and deep commitment to The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. The UT System Board of Regents presented The Sealy & Smith Foundation with the Santa Rita Award Wednesday night ... Gov ... Green; Harry H. Ransom; Eugene McDermott; Hines H....

Free things to do in Austin, Feb. 7-13

Edit Austin American Statesman 05 Feb 2016
Sunday. Black History Month Concert. Duke Ellington highlights the performers at the Butler School of Music’s 10th annual concert. Leon P. Turner, the UT Jazz Orchestra, UT Austin and Huston-Tillotson choirs will also perform. 7.30 p.m. Bates Recital Hall, 2406 Robert Dedman Drive. music.utexas.edu. Art in Bass ... The Harry Ransom Center boasts one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive photography collections ... Harry Ransom Center, 300 W....

More things to do, 2/1/16

Edit Austin American Statesman 31 Jan 2016
Music. Dianne Scott’s Birthday with Dale Watson at Continental Club. Memo to the lovelorn, the listless and the generally confused — the “Honky Tonk Doctor” is in the house every Sunday and Monday to answer your questions for a quarter a pop ... 10.15 p.m. Monday. $7. 1315 S. Congress Ave ... Coming up. Staged reading of “Richard III” at the Harry Ransom Center ... The reading is based on John Wilkes Booth’s promptbook from the Ransom Center archives ... ....

Concert of famous related composers and more upcoming events

Edit The Oklahoman 29 Jan 2016
Concert of famous related composers and more upcoming events. Arianna Auber. Austin American-Statesman. Coming up. Beerthoven Concert Series. The next installment in this booze-and-music-themed series brings in mezzo-soprano Laura Mercado-Wright, member of the Grammy Award-winning choral ensemble Conspirare, in the intimate setting of the upstairs room at Saengerrunde Hall ... 3 p.m. Sunday ... 1607 San Jacinto Blvd ... $10. Harry Ransom Center, 300 W....

Linklater doc headed to PBS; Austin ranked No. 3 city for filmmakers

Edit The Oklahoman 28 Jan 2016
Linklater doc headed to PBS; Austin ranked No. 3 city for filmmakers. Joe Gross. Austin American-Statesman. "American Masters," the PBS documentary series about the lives of creatives in various fields, has nabbed the broadcast rights to Louis Black and Karen Bernstein's "Richard Linklater ... Also of note in the story ... Director Jeff Nichols and producer Sarah Green at the Ransom Center ... Sunday at the Harry Ransom Center ... The opening line ... 1 ... 2....

UC Blue Ash Professor Travels Abroad to Bring Lessons Home (University of Cincinnati)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Jan 2016
(Source. University of Cincinnati). UC Blue Ash Professor Travels Abroad to Bring Lessons Home. Professor Timothy Forest will travel halfway around the world this spring for research he is conducting through a UC Third Century Research Fellowship. Date. 1/26/2016 12.00.00 AM By ... (513) 936-1632 ... Forest's journey starts in Austin, Texas where the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas provides excellent resources on British history....

New Book Reveals UT Austin's Hidden Treasures (The University of Texas at Austin)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jan 2016
(Source. The University of Texas at Austin) ... The book shows the university is the largest repository of cultural objects in the state and the largest in the U.S. in terms of the number of objects ... 22 ... 1891-ca. 1920 ... UT Austin has long been one of the world's distinguished collecting universities, home to renowned institutions such as the Harry Ransom Center, the Blanton Museum of Art and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History ... (noodl....
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