http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife Wed, 08 May 2013 18:24:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Laura Byerley shares this Q&A from the College of Communication. Robert Jensen, professor in the School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin College of Communication, is the author of “Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog,” (City Lights Publishers, March 2013). The book explores issues ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2013/05/08/qa-professor-robert-jensen-on-%e2%80%9carguing-for-our-lives-a-user%e2%80%99s-guide-to-constructive-dialog/ Kurt Heinzelman, English professor, founding co-editor of The Poetry Miscellany and advisor and editor-at-large for Bat City Review, has been publishing poetry for 30 years in such journals as Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Massachusetts Review and Southwest Review. Recently, Heinzelman was invited as a featured author to Adelaide Writers' Week, an ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2013/04/24/qa-professor-and-poet-kurt-heinzelman-on-adelaide-writers-week/ "Arnold Newman: At Work" highlights archival materials from the Harry Ransom Center’s Arnold Newman archive to reveal a glimpse into the work of the photographer who created iconographic portraits of some of the most influential innovators, celebrities and cultural figures of the twentieth century. Written by Ransom Center Senior Research ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2013/04/11/arnold-newman-at-work-reveals-creative-process-of-portrait-photographer/ In “The Rise of Liberal Religion” historian and University of Texas at Austin alumnus Matthew Hedstrom attends to the critically important yet little-studied area of religious book culture, paying special attention to the popularization of religious liberalism in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. By looking at book weeks, book clubs, public ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2013/03/05/historian-matthew-hedstrom-details-the-evolution-of-post-protestant-spirituality/ Art Markman, author of several books on analogical reasoning, categorization, decision-making and motivation, has written a new book, “Habits of Leadership” (Perigee, Jan. 2013). In the e-book, now available online, Markman addresses how aspects of personality influence the habits one brings to leadership situations. He does this by demonstrating the correlation of ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2013/02/06/new-e-book-offers-valuable-career-tips-for-business/ Article and photos provided by the editors of Know Kevin Powers, MFA ’12, has written one of the best books of the year, according to The New York Times and The Guardian, the British national daily newspaper that gave Powers its Guardian First Book Award. The prize, awarded in late ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2013/01/07/michener-grad%e2%80%99s-debut-among-year%e2%80%99s-best/ Humanities Texas will host its annual Holiday Book Fair in Austin at the historic Byrne-Reed House, 1410 Rio Grande on Saturday, December 8, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Noteworthy authors, including H.W. Brands, Jan Reid, Sarah Bird, John Spong, Mark Updegrove, David Dettmer, Katherine Catmull, Paul Woodruff, George Bristol, Jacqueline Kelly, ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2012/12/07/tis-the-season-to-buy-books/ The 2012-13 Texas Institute for Literary & Textual Studies (TILTS) symposia on the “Fate of the Book” will host a conversation with novelist Paul La Farge about how the Internet can expand the formal possibilities for fiction and engage new readership. La Farge is the author of "The Artist of ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2012/11/27/the-novel-vs-the-internet-a-conversation-with-paul-la-farge/ Harvard University professor and award-winning author, Elaine Scarry, will share insight into how society thinks and talks about beauty and social justice at an event hosted by the Humanities Institute. The talk will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in ACES, AVAYA amphitheater, room 2.302. In ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2012/11/19/author-and-scholar-elaine-scarry-examines-beauty-and-fairness/ Posted by Molly Wahlberg, College of Liberal Arts "Extrañeza, Extranjería, Migración / Estrangement, Foreignness, Migration," a graduate seminar in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese that convened between Sept. 25 and Nov. 9, recently coordinated with the department’s annual poetry event "Poéticas para el Siglo XXI / Poetics for the 21st ... http://www.utexas.edu/opa/blogs/shelflife/2012/11/16/renowned-poets-lead-graduate-seminar-courses-on-spanish-poetry/