Tag Archives: Humanities Research Center

Hammett: A Really Old and Highly Inaccurate News Flash

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Don

Suddenly people are popping me links to a 2011 article from The Guardian about Hammett’s Lost Works Found in Texas — must have surfaced on Facebook or someplace. Yeah, yeah. I knew about it at the time and ignored it, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News, Willeford | Tagged "So I Shot Him", "The Cure", Betsy Willeford, Elmore Leonard, Humanities Research Center, Including Murder, PW, Terry Zobeck, The Guardian, The Hunter and Other Stories, The Strand Magazine, Vince Emery |

Hammett: Birthday 121

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Don

Shot above, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett — who get stacks of their old mail officially donated to the University of South Carolina today, the 121st anniversary of Hammett’s birth. Terry “Mr. Pure Texts” Zobeck and I had a little … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News, Tour | Tagged Humanities Research Center, Jo Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Random House, Richard Layman, University of South Carolina |

Rediscovered: “Lost” Lovecraft in the Ransom Center

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Don

And just in time to serve as additional background for the Weird Tales panel planned for PulpFest — the panel to cover the editorial policies of longtime WT editor Farnsworth Wright, but of course concentrating on how those often bizarre … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Farnsworth Wright, Humanities Research Center, Lovecraft, PulpFest, Weird Tales |

Hammett: All He Wrote

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Don

And now, on Birthday 120, it is time to do a recount — we’ll call these The Zobeck Statistics. As anyone who has been on the tour knows, I personally count The Big Knockover as a novel (if a short novel), … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Tour | Tagged "Immortality", "The Figure of Incongruity", "The Man Who Loved Ugly Women", "The Parthian Shot", A Man Named Thin, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Humanities Research Center, Lillian Hellman, Paul Herman, Terry Zobeck, The Big Knockover, The Hunter and Other Stories |

Hammett: The Hunter and Other Stories

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Don

Official release date is next month, but you can start licking your chops now if you want — finally, a collection gathering the little trove of mostly unpublished Hammett short stories that has been in the holdings of the Ransom … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News | Tagged Humanities Research Center, PW, The Hunter and Other Stories |

Rediscovered: The Shiel Biographies

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Don

By this time last year I had poked my way through the first two of three projected volumes covering the life of M. P. Shiel, and happened to bump into Vince Emery while I was reading along. “Give me one … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit | Tagged Arthur Machen, H. G. Wells, Harold Billings, Humanities Research Center, Including Murder, M. P. Shiel, Redonda, Vince Emery |

Hammett: Including Murder

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Don

A few months back Evan Lewis of Davy Crockett’s Almanack let me know he was drifting into town, so I lined up a day where I could show him and his wife as many of the lost byways, precipice gradiants, … Continue reading →