Publicity Round Up

With the heat of summer upon us, Robb Walsh and O. Rufus Lovett's barbecue joint adventure is catching fire. Check out the attention that Barbecue Crossroads — and other UT Press books — are getting this season.

• Publishers Weekly listed Barbecue Crossroads as a 'Standout Barbecue Book.' See the list at publishersweekly.com>> 
• Booklist gave the book a starred review. Read it on booklistonline.com>>
• Robb Walsh was pegged as "The Steinbeck of the South" in the Dallas Morning News. Read the article on dallasnews.com>>
• Houston Chronicle's Greg Morago says of the book, "Throughout this smoked-meat hegira Walsh lavishes Southern barbecue lore and history like he’s building an especially luscious pulled-pork sandwich. The stories and recipes he coaxes from these keepers of the flame are what make “Barbecue Crossroads” such a tasty journey.” Read the rest on houstonchronicle.com>>
• Russ Parsons of the Los Angeles Times on reading Barbecue Crossroads: "In the end, you feel privileged to have been invited along and a whole lot smarter about not only smoked meat in all of its many guises, but this lovely and confounding part of the country.” More on latimes.com>>
• A prominent mention in a list of new cookbooks from the New York Times. See the list on nytimes.com>>

Photojournalists and authors Michael Kamber and Donna De Cesare continue to garner widespread attention for their projects:

• The BBC interviewed Michael Kamber about his book Photojournalists on War. Watch on bbc.co.uk>> 
• Kamber talks to the Washington Post's 'The Fold' about the stories behind the images. Watch the video on washingtonpost.com>>
•  Austin Merrell of Vanity Fair says of the book, "Kamber's interviews with his colleagues cover the war as they saw it—their passion for the story, their fears and daily complications, and the trauma they live with still today. Some of their images are among the most iconic of the war, some are previously unpublished..." View the slideshow and article on vanityfair.com>>
• Michael Kamber appeared on the Leonard Lopate Show to promote the book. Listen to the interview on wnyc.org>> 
• CBSnews.com featured a slideshow with interview excerpts from contributing photographers. See it on cbsnews.com>>
• Mike Sacks on HuffPost Live digs deeper into the photojournalist's experience in Iraq with Michael Kamber. Watch it on live.huffingtonpost.com>> 
• KPCC Radio, NPR's affiliate station in Pasadena, CA, interviewed Donna De Cesare about her book Unsettled/Desasosiego. Listen to the interview on scpr.org>>