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American Short Fiction presents Lit City

American Short Fiction presents Lit City

Texas Book Festival presents Literary Libations Week

Texas Book Festival presents Literary Libations Week

Austin Film Society presents Homo Arigato

Austin Film Society presents Homo Arigato

  • Courtesy photo
  • Actor Tony Danza on being a first-year teacher
  • Experimental writer Mark Z. Danielewski's latest release
  • Jewel's That's What I'd Do

  • Heidi Julavits
  • Ben Marcus
  • Walter Kirn
  • Peter Orner

  • David Foster Wallace
  • Infinite Jest Draft
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • King
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center

  • The Literary Death Match writers: Karen Russell, Libba Bray, Martha Hall Fooseand Charles Yu with co-host Owen Egerton.
    Photo by Jessica Pages
  • Emcee's Owen Egerton and Todd Zuniga stand with the Literary Death Match Winnerand cookbook author, Martha Hall Foose.
    Photo by Jessica Pages
  • Paramount Theatre was packed with readers, writers and fans excited to catchsome Literary Death Match action.
    Photo by Jessica Pages
  • Literary Death Match esteemed judges: Adam Mansbach, Lisa Loeb and ChuckPalahniuk convene to decide on a winner.
    Photo by Jessica Pages

  • Harry Ransom Center
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • The Ransom Center's copy of the Gutenberg Bible.
    Photo by Thomas McConnell Photography
  • Housing for the First Photograph, which replicates the backside of the framedphotograph.
    Photo by Thomas McConnell Photography
  • Prior to treatment, Stephanie Watkins examines the condition of a rare drawingof Edgar Allan Poe done from life, which is attributed to Rembrandt Peale.
    Photo by Eric Beggs
  • Harry Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley
    Photo by Gregg Cestaro

  • Green
  • Green
  • Gabi on the Roof in July
  • Gabi on the Roof in July

  • A Huaso or cowboy, in the Colchagua Wine Valley.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Plaza de Armas, Santiago
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Villarrica Lake, Pucon.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Atacama Desert.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Woman at the salt flats, Atacama Desert.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Valley of the Moon, Atacama Desert.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Volcano Villarrica.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Elisa Cea Epuin of La Cocina de Elisa.
    Photo by Shelley Seale
  • Termas Geometricas.
    Photo by Shelley Seale

  • Page 1 of corrected proof of David Foster Wallace's 1996 essay on the U.S. Openfor Tennis Magazine.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • 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.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • "Attempted Fax Cover Sheet" from David Foster Wallace to Joel Lovell of Harper'sfor Wallace's 1998 essay "Laughing with Kafka."
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • Letter and notes from editor Michael Pietsch to David Foster Wallace regardingdraft of Infinite Jest, dated Dec. 22, 1994.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • Letter and notes from editor Michael Pietsch to David Foster Wallace regardingdraft of Infinite Jest, dated Dec. 22, 1994.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
  • Letter from Jim Harrison to David Foster Wallace, dated late July 2006. Theletter was tucked inside a copy of Jim Harrison's book Saving Daylight.
    Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center

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