Good Reads

 

Q&A: Children’s Book Author on Getting Lost and Finding Your Way Back

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE ROAD TO TEXAS   Incredible Twists and Improbable Turns Along the Longhorns Recruiting Trail   BY MIKE ROACH    The...

 
 

Holiday Reads From the Longhorn Universe

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

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

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,...

 
 
 
 
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