Photography Book Featured in New York Times

April 2008: It's a good week for UT Press books in New York. Robb Kendrick's Still is featured in the Life and Arts section of the April 20th edition of the New York Times. Read the NYT article (may require registration).

Novel Featured in New York Times Book Review

April 2008: A review of Dermot Bolger's The Journey Home appears on the front page of the April 20th edition of the New York Times Book Review. Read the NYT article (may require registration).

In Memoriam: Anthony C. Hilfer

April 2008: The Press was greatly sorry to learn that Anthony C. Hilfer, former coeditor of Texas Studies in Literature and Language and author of UT Press books The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction and The Crime Novel: A Deviant Genre, died in an automobile accident on April 11. Our sympathies go out to his family and colleagues.

Obituary in the Austin American-Statesman

In Memoriam: Raúl Salinas

February 2008: We were saddened to learn of the recent death of Chicano poet and activist Raúl Salinas. The Press published a collection of Salinas's journalism and correspondence, raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine.

Article on Salinas in the Austin-American Statesman.

Author Interviewed on NPR

February 2008: Robb Kendrick, author of Still, was interviewed on NPR's Day to Day. Read or listen to the story on NPR's website.

Authors' Research Featured on UT Website

January 2008: UT-Austin's homepage recently featured an article on Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder's research on post-welfare families in Texas. The Press recently published their book, Life After Welfare.

Four Choice Titles

January 2008: Four University of Texas Press books have been named as Outstanding Academic Titles in the January 2008 issue of Choice Magazine:

• Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity by Cynthia J. Becker
• "Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear by Tim Jon Semmerling
• Who Guards the Guardians and How: Democratic Civil-Military Relations edited by Thomas C. Bruneau and Scott D. Tollefson
• Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America by William Anthony Nericcio

Congratulations to the authors!

Author Interview on National Geographic Radio

January 2008: Robb Kendrick was recently interviewed on National Geographic Radio. The Press will publish his book Still in February 2008. Listen to the interview in MP3 format at National Geographic's site.