David Yetman reflects on our 40th anniversary
What does it take to build something from nothing? Our latest additions to the anniversary collection offer three very different answers to that question.
In a 1989 profile from the UA campus newspaper Lo Que Pasa, a young Joe Wilder lays out his vision with characteristic bluntness: throw things against the wall, pull the community together, and do "sensational publishing." That publishing mission comes to life in Lawrence Taylor's essay on B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a reminder that the best scholarship about this region has always moved between literature, history, and the land itself. And then there is David Yetman, one of the Southwest Center's earliest and most enduring voices, sitting down to remember how it all began, with the anecdotes and sharp wit that anyone who knows him will instantly recognize.