University of Texas Press

Why It Matters How We Tell the Story of Sinead O’Connor

Allyson McCabe on the Power of Accepting that a Memoir May Contain Contradictions

 
By Allyson McCabe  October 23, 2023
In Conversation

In Praise of Mariah Carey

By Literary Hub  October 6, 2023
Origins

Countries Real and Imagined: Chris McCormick on Creating His Own Armenia

By Chris McCormick  March 6, 2023
Singer Songwriters

Singer-Songwriter Margo Price on Finding Truth and Joy in Writing a Memoir

By Maggie Smith  January 12, 2023
The Writing Life

On Phone Sex, First Writing Jobs, and Unexpected Teachers

By Lynn Melnick  October 3, 2022
Poetry

‘Fable’

By Ahmed Bouanani  January 20, 2021
Immigration

What America Has Chosen Not to Understand About the Border

By Charles Bowden  November 6, 2020
Daily Fiction

The Wind Traveler

By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 19, 2020
Sports

You’re Paying for Sports Stadiums You Don’t Even Go To

By Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson  August 31, 2020
Music

The Fandom of the Teenage Girl Deserves More Respect

By Hannah Ewens  August 20, 2020
Music

Freddie Mercury Was a Total Opera Fanboy

By Alfonso Casas  June 4, 2020
Sports

The War on Poverty Changed a Young George Foreman’s Life

By Andrew R.M. Smith  January 17, 2020
Music

The Romantic, Uncompromising, Audacious Life of Lhasa de Sela

By Fred Goodman  December 20, 2019
Musicians

On the Groundbreaking Documentary That Brought the Birthplace of Chicago Blues Alive

By David Dann  October 16, 2019
The Labor Movement

On One of the Great Unsung Heroes of the American Labor Movement

By Stephen Harrigan  October 2, 2019
Sports

The Life and Times of a Texas Football Legend

By Asher Price  September 5, 2019
Celebrity

Big in the Philippines: Why I Was Named After Karen Carpenter

By Karen Tongson  July 22, 2019
Rock N Roll

What David Bowie Borrowed From William Burroughs

By Casey Rae  June 11, 2019
Excerpts

The Enlightened Army

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 24, 2019
Deep Dive

How to Suppress Women’s Writing: “She Only Wrote One Good Book.”

By Joanna Russ  May 3, 2018
Feature

Garry Winogrand’s Photographs Contain Entire Novels

By Geoff Dyer  April 25, 2018
Excerpts

“The Animals of Cairo”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 29, 2017
Personal Essay

How Shania Twain Made Me a Writer

By Emily Yahr  September 13, 2017
Did you know?

Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Was Almost a Plain Old Western

By Michael Lynn Crews  September 6, 2017
Archives

Sam Shepard on Writing, Reading, and the Promise of Eternal Love

By Sam Shepard  August 2, 2017
Deep Dive

On Marvel’s First Female Superhero Written By A Woman

By Anna F. Peppard  July 13, 2017
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