As the final notes of “Goodnight, Irene” rang out through the Armadillo World Headquarters, it signaled the end of an era. The farewell to the iconic music...
When novelist Sarah Bird arrived in Austin in 1973, she was a recent graduate from the University of New Mexico who was moving to follow her boyfriend. As time...
New books of interest to the Longhorn Universe
Homegrown: Austin Music Posters From 1967 to 1982
Edited by Alan Schaefer, with
Joe Nick Patoski, ’75, and Nels...
New books of interest to the Longhorn Universe
My Beautiful City Austin
By David Heymann
Waxing nostalgic about how Austin used to be has become something of an...
Author Stephen Harrigan, BA ’70, is poised to pen the first installment of the Texas Bookshelf, an ambitious project from UT Press that aims to publish...
In his 1962 book Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck had this to say about Texas: “For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance,...
Before he became The University of Texas’ winningest coach, Darrell K Royal was a small-town Oklahoma boy. In DKR: The Royal Scrapbook, family friend Jenna Hays McEachern...
