Good Reads
Q&A: Children’s Book Author on Getting Lost and Finding Your Way Back
By Katey Psencik Outka
Nikki Loftin, author of If You Get Lost. Nikki Loftin knew she wanted to be a writer since she was 9 years old, so she chased that dream in the graduate program...
Q&A: A New Memoir from a Longhorn Astrophysicist Looks Up
By Katey Psencik Outka
Sarafina El-Badry Nance, author of “StarStruck” Sarafina El-Badry Nance has always loved looking up at the stars. It’s one of the first things...
A New Book Aims to Demystify Fertility and Its Industry
By Katey Psencik Outka
She worked as an art director at several top marketing firms. She’s an advisor to various early-stage startups. She helped launch a health startup accelerator...
Good Reads Q&A: Firsthand Experience
By Nathan Han
Brianna Holt never thought her first book would be a memoir, and especially not at only 25 years old. But after the summer of 2020, when Holt, BJ, BS ’16,...
New Reads for Spring 2023 From the Longhorn Universe
By Alcalde Staff
TEXAS TEXTURES Photographs and Tales from the Backroads BY KAY SWANSEY Lonely towns and dilapidated structures form the core of Texas...
Q&A: A New Novel Tells the Story of Hurricane Ike
By Katey Psencik Outka
Texas is vast, diverse, and complicated. It can be nearly impossible to describe to people who don’t live here, who didn’t grow up in and around the nuances...
New Year, New Reads From the Longhorn Universe
By Alcalde Staff
THE ROAD TO TEXAS Incredible Twists and Improbable Turns Along the Longhorns Recruiting Trail BY MIKE ROACH The...
Holiday Reads From the Longhorn Universe
By Alcalde Staff
AT THE TABLE WITH LBJ AND LADY BIRD History, Humor, and True Texas Recipes BY JEAN E. SCHULER, BFA ’82 After years of...
Q&A: Journalism Professor Kate Dawson Is Truly a True Crime Historian
By Katey Psencik Outka
If you haven’t heard Kate Winkler Dawson’s voice before, you probably will soon. Maybe you listened to the audiobook version of her most recent book,...
A Wilder World
By Abby Carney
Author Millie Kerr has had a love for nature and wildlife since she was a child spending time on her grandparents’ ranch, a home to scimitar-horned oryx,...