UT Press at the 2015 Texas Book Festival

This weekend, the University of Texas Press and 13 of our authors will enjoy the 20th annual Texas Book Festival on the Capitol grounds in downtown Austin and environs. We'll have a booth on Colorado Street with tons of titles for sale at a great discount, so please stop by. There are a lot of wonderful authors in attendance this year, so we’ve distilled our authors' appearances into a single UT Press schedule (browse the full schedule here):

Saturday

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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The Jemima Code

Author: Toni Tipton Martin

Moderated by Addie Broyles
Location: Central Market Cooking Tent

Come see Toni Tipton-Martin discusses recipes and stories from her book, The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, a comprehensive treasure.

Where to find the author online: @thejemimacode | Website

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

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The Best I Recall: A Memoir
Author: Gary Cartwright

Moderated by John Spong
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.028

Esteemed writer Gary Cartwright traces his career across Texas in his memoir, The Best I Recall. After working in publishing and journalism for over 60 years, Cartwright has acquired countless by-lines and numerous awards. Join the lively and talented author as he shares his stories.

2:45 - 3:30 PM

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Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home
Author: Eli Reed
Moderated by Steven Hoelscher
Location: The Contemporary Austin--Jones Center (700 Congress)

Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home presents the first career retrospective of Reed's work. Consisting of over 250 images that span the full range of his subjects and his evolution as a photographer, the photographs are a visual summation of the human condition.

UT Press Podcast Interview with Eli Reed:

UT Press at the San Antonio Book Festival

On Saturday, April 11, the University of Texas Press and 8 of our authors will enjoy the 3rd annual San Antonio Book Festival at the Central Library and environs in downtown San Antonio. We'll have a booth in the Exhibitor Tent with tons of titles for sale at a great discount. There are a lot of great authors in attendance (Maureen Corrigan! Neal Pollack! Luis Alberto Urrea!), so we’ve distilled our authors' appearances into a single UT Press schedule.

Get The SABF App For Your Smart Phone. Just go the App Store on your device, download "Eventbase Free" and click on the San Antonio Book Festival tab.

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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
The Face of Texas
Location: The Studio (Southwest School of Art, Ursuline Campus, across Augusta St. from Library)

Author: Michael O’Brien

A two-time recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for outstanding coverage of the disadvantaged, Michael O’Brien has photographed subjects ranging from small-town heroes to presidents. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Life, National Geographic, Texas Monthly, the London Sunday Times, and the book Hard Ground, which pairs his portraits of the homeless with Tom Waits’s powerful poetry. O’Brien’s photographs are in the permanent collections around the United States, including the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

Click here for more info about Michael O'Brien.

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11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Texas on the Table: People, Places and Recipes Celebrating the Flavors of the Lone Star State
Location: The Central Market Cooking Tent (Southwest School of Art, in the southwest corner of the Ursuline Campus parking lot)

Author: Terry Thompson-Anderson

Thompson-Anderson is the author of several previous cookbooks, including the best-selling Cajun-Creole Cooking, Texas on the Plate, The Texas Hill Country: A Food and Wine Lover’s Paradise, and Don Strange of Texas: His Life and Recipes, coauthored with Frances Strange. She also writes a regular wine feature for Edible Austin magazine. Thompson-Anderson has taught over 20,000 students at cooking schools all over the country and does restaurant/wine consulting and cooking events around Texas. Her latest book, Texas on the Table: People, Places & Recipes Celebrating the Flavors of the Lone Star State has been nominated for a James Beard Award.

Spring 2015 Preview

This spring and summer, UT Press will publish significant works in photography, film and media studies, architecture, Latin American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Latina/o Studies, including a compelling chronicle of the dangers, fears, shared histories and aspirations that bind Mexicans and Americans despite the U.S./Mexico border walls.

  

Below is a preview of our spring books, with videos and interior images. Browse our full catalog here or below:

[ Nature and Environment ]

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Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change

By Seamus McGraw

"This title deserves a wide and varied readership; it has the power to change minds.”

—Booklist starred review

“Seamus McGraw takes on an immense and cacophonous subject—climate change—and does so in a way that avoids the usual polarities of denial versus panic. He does an excellent job of seeking out interested American parties who don’t typically have a voice in the debate and makes a case that leadership on the issue probably won’t come from the conventional class of ‘leaders’ (namely, Congress). . . . His pragmatism and his refusal to live in a world of ideals make this a worthy project. . . . It deserves an audience of good readers.”

—Tom Zoellner, author of Train: Riding the Rails that Created the Modern World and The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire

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[ Music ]

John Prine: In Spite of Himself

By Eddie Huffman

“Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs.”
—Bob Dylan, Huffington Post

“The unlikely success of the reluctant performer makes for fascinating reading.”

—Kirkus Reviews

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