The Memoir You Cannot Miss
April 9, 2024
Announcing Loose of Earth: A Memoir Book Tour Dates | Praise | Audio Excerpts For anyone who has experienced the death of a parent, telling the story of that loss… READ MORE
Category: Literature
Announcing Dr. Crystal Leigh Endsley’s book Quantum Justice
November 7, 2023
This week, we’re celebrating the publication of Dr. Crystal Leigh Endsley’s book Quantum Justice: Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry. Grounded in her experience of “putting a mic… READ MORE
Q&A with Myriam J. A. Chancy on the personal & political impacts of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
October 12, 2023
In the years following 2010, when a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, Myriam J. A. Chancy wrote columns, poems, essays, and took photos. In her new book, Chancy examines the structures… READ MORE
Listen to Contributors Read from Pastures of the Empty Page, a new collection on Larry McMurtry
August 22, 2023
Larry McMurtry wrote dozens of novels (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show), screenplays (Brokeback Mountain, Terms of Endearment), and essays (“Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen”), among other works. He… READ MORE
38th Anniversary of Lonesome Dove Publication; We Have a New Book on Larry McMurtry!
June 13, 2023
Today, on the 38th anniversary of the publication of Larry McMurtry’s treasured novel of the American West, Lonesome Dove, the University of Texas Press is proud to feature our forthcoming book, Pastures… READ MORE
Q&A with Kristy L. Ulibarri, Author of Visible Borders, Invisible Economies
December 19, 2022
Visible Borders Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives is part of the Latinx: The Future Is Now series. The 2022 book by Kristy L. Ulibarri connects themes of social… READ MORE
Depicting Intra-Caribbean Migration: A Q&A with Marisel Moreno, author of Crossing Waters
November 8, 2022
Marisel Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art is the first book-length study of literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone… READ MORE
Consumerism & Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman: A Conversation with Cailin Roles
July 11, 2022
By Clara Mundy “‘The Surface on Which You Work’: Self-Alienation and the Culture of Narcissism in The Edible Woman,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 63.3 (2021): 276-98. Many people are first exposed… READ MORE
Jean Toomer and What It Means to be American: An Interview With Justin Parks
June 20, 2022
By Megan Marshall Justin Parks, “Race and National Identity in Modernist Anthropology and Toomer’s The Blue Meridian,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 62.3 (2020): 344-67. What initially drew you… READ MORE
On Betrayal and Male Friendship in Graham Greene: an Interview with Gregory Alan Phipps
May 28, 2022
By Mikayla Mondragon Gregory Alan Phipps, “Male Friendships and Betrayal in the Fiction of Graham Greene,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 62.4 (2020): 415-36. For readers who may not be familiar… READ MORE
