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“On the Road” actors used audio recordings from Ransom Center’s collections...

The cover of a journal Jack Kerouac kept from 1948-49 while preparing to write "On the Road." The film On the Road, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s acclaimed novel of the same name, opens in theaters...

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Beat Generation poet Peter Orlovsky’s archive acquired

Peter Orlovsky’s notebook titled Rolling Thunder, Oct. 29, 1975. The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the archive of American poet Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), an important figure in the Beat...

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Oof. Peek inside the Ed Ruscha archive

Four large bins containing the archival material of artist Ed Ruscha arrived at the Ransom Center recently. Packed and carefully layered within were boxes, tubes, and portfolios containing Ruscha’s...

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