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The New Public Art

Collectivity and Activism in Mexico since the 1980s

University of Texas Press

Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.

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Winifred Sanford

The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

University of Texas Press

The first comprehensive biography of one of Texas’s most important female writers—made complete with examples of her work, excerpts from her private papers, and eighteen previously unpublished letters from her mentor, H. L. Mencken.

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Reverberations of Racial Violence

Critical Reflections on the History of the Border

University of Texas Press

A trenchant collection of essays that details systematic, extralegal killings of Mexicans along the US southern border in the 1910s and explores the role of officially sanctioned violence in the history of US nation-building.

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Pastures of the Empty Page

Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry

Edited by George Getschow
University of Texas Press

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life

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Making The Best Years of Our Lives

The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation

University of Texas Press

How a Hollywood gem transformed the national discourse on post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Ghostlight

University of Texas Press

A collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story.

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Electrifying Mexico

Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City

University of Texas Press

A detailed social history of technological change arguing that ordinary Mexicans, spurred by state electrification initiatives, became agents of scientific advance and in the process fostered a modernist political sensibility.

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Duchess of Palms

A Memoir

University of Texas Press

A “fifties girl” tells the fascinating story of her marriages to novelist Billy Lee Brammer and Congressman Bob Eckhardt, and how these relationships propelled her into the multifaceted life she has led on her own terms.

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The Empire of Effects

Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism

University of Texas Press

How one company created the dominant aesthetic of digital realism.

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Danger Pay

Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994

University of Texas Press

An engrossing memoir in which a photojournalist records both the precursors to today’s conflicts in the Middle East and her own deeply felt conviction that news coverage of the region actually increases the conflicts there.

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