UT Press at the Texas Book Festival

This weekend, the University of Texas Press and 15 of our authors will enjoy the 18th annual Texas Book Festival on the Capitol grounds in downtown Austin and environs. We'll have a booth on Colorado Street (Exhibitor Tent #4) with tons of titles for sale at a great discount. There are a lot of great authors in attendance (R.L. Stine just in time for Halloween!), so we’ve distilled our authors' appearances into a single UT Press schedule:

Saturday

12:00 PM — 1:00 PM

TWO PROSPECTORS: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.028
Authors: Chad Hammett 
Moderator: Rebecca Beegle

"A bright pathway directly into the hearts and minds of two compelling men."—Kirkus Reviews

Nonfiction / Biography 

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
2013 TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL POSTER PHOTOGRAPHER
Location: The Contemporary Austin--Jones Center (700 Congress)
Authors: Randal Ford
Moderator: T.J. Tucker

Randal Ford is the photographer for the UT Press book The Amazing Faith of Texas, an exploration in words and pictures of people and places that represent the strong, abiding belief that sustains faith-filled Texans. Ford is in conversation with Texas Monthly creative director T.J. Tucker.

Texas Coffee Table / Photography / Art

1:00 PM — 2:00 PM

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

The Salt Lick Cookbook with Scott Roberts

Location: Central Market Cooking Tent

“The book’s charm lies in the affectionate family history that began when Scott Roberts’ great-grandfather bought the land way back in the nineteenth century. The recipes keep memories of a great meal alive…”— Jane Manaster, Portland Book Review

Food / Cooking

15 UT Press Authors Coming to the Texas Book Festival

The Texas Book Festival announced their 2013 lineup of authors today. This year's festival takes place October 26th & 27th in and around the Texas State Capitol in downtown Austin. We are pleased to have fourteen of our authors presenting UT Press books!

Poster photograph by Randal Ford (The Amazing Faith of Texas)

For the full roster of authors, visit www.texasbookfestival.org/Authors.

Ricardo Ainslie

The Fight to Save Juarez: Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War

Austin Film Festival

On Story—Screenwriters and Their Craft

Donna De Cesare
Unsettled / Desasosiego

Eric Draper

Front Row Seat: A Photographic Portrait of the Presidency of George W. Bush

David Ensminger

Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins

Roy Flukinger

Arnold Newman: At Work

Randal Ford
The Amazing Faith of Texas: Common Ground on Higher Ground

Kate Galbraith

The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power

Chad Hammett

The Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark

Stephen Harrigan

The Eye of the Mammoth: Selected Essays

Lucinda Hutson

¡Viva Tequila!: Cocktails, Cooking, and Other Agave Adventures

Diana Kennedy

My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with Recipes, Updated Edition

Asher Price

The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power

John Rohrbach

Color: American Photography Transformed

Robb Walsh

Barbecue Crossroads: Notes and Recipes from a Southern Odyssey


These TBF 2013 authors previously published with UT Press, with one forthcoming book from Bill Minutaglio:

H. W. Brands

Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It

Joe Lansdale

Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale

Bill Minutaglio

In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas

and 

Coming Spring 2014: City on Fire: The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle 

New UT Press Podcasts

The University of Texas Press is pleased to present our collection of podcast episodes featuring interviews and conversations with UT Press authors about the stories behind their books. Hosted by Chris Gondek of Heron & Crane, you may listen to the interviews directly from our web site or through the iTunes store.

Below please find a selection from our spring 2013 and fall 2012 seasons. We are also pleased to feature podcasts that are a part of a new initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation – the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative.

We hope you enjoy and return often to hear the newest offerings. A complete list of podcasts can be found on our podcast page.

 
The Fight to Save Juarez by Ricardo Ainslie
Rico Ainslie’s portrait of Mexico’s bloodiest city offers a gripping, firsthand perspective on the drug war that has claimed more than 40,000 lives since 2007. In this interview, he discusses the toll the drug war has taken on the city of Juarez and the great efforts the former mayor, José Reyes Ferriz, undertook to try and save his community.

Ryan Adams by David Menconi
In this second book in UT Press’ American Music Series, prominent music journalist David Menconi chronicles the rise of singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. In this podcast, Menconi describes how Adams and his band Whiskeytown led the alt-country movement in the 1990s, and shares behind-the-scenes stories.

Last Launch by Dan Winters
Dan Winters’ Last Launch showcases breathtaking photographs of the final launches of the shuttles Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. As one of only a handful of photographers to whom NASA granted close access to photograph the launches, Winters talks about that experience and his personal memories of the shuttle program. 

Publisher's Weekly :: The Fight to Save Juarez

The Fight to Save Juarez

by Ricardo C. Ainslie

Buy It Now

Publisher's Weekly reviewed Ricardo Ainslie's forthcoming book The Fight to Save Juarez, "an unrelenting look" at the drug war and its epicenter, Ciudad Juarez.

"Psychologist and U.T.-Austin instructor Ainslie (Long Dark Road) presents an unrelenting look at the drug cartel battles of Ciudad Juarez, just over the Rio Grande from El Paso, Tex. Juarez’s mayor, José Reyes Ferriz, first learned of the coming war between the established Juarez cartel and the Sinaloa cartel shortly after he was elected in late 2007 and he spent his entire three-year term trying to curtail the killings, which in some months “surpassed those in war-torn cities like Baghdad.” Corruption was so endemic in the municipal police force that Reyes invited in the army, with 5,000 federal troops arriving in March 2009. The municipal police force was officially disbanded, then re-formed later that year as the “new police.” Two facts stand out among the continual descriptions of assassinations. The first, often repeated, is that the violence is driven by American drug consumption, and the second is that the vast majority of assault weapons used by the cartels are from the U.S. Despite a wide-ranging intervention ordered by the Mexican president, following a massacre of innocent youths in the Villas de Salvárcar neighborhood in January 2010, there is no Hollywood ending to this report—only a continuation of the violence. Although not easy to read, this is an important work for any reader concerned about Mexico. Agent: James D. Hornfischer, Hornfischer Literary Management. (Apr.)"

Read the full review at publishersweekly.com>>