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  • 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
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  • 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

  • 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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