University of North Texas Press

12/09/2025

Thanks for the shoutout from the UNT College of Music for David Itkin's RIGHT BACK WHERE I STARTED, available now from untpress.unt.edu!

PROFESSOR PUBLISHES MEMOIR. University of North Texas Press has released another book in its North Texas Lives of Musicians Series. Now available is, “Right Back Where I started: A Memoir In Music,” by the University of North Texas Anshel Brusilow Chair of Orchestral Studies, David Itkin. Read more and get your copy at https://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/itkin-right-back-where-i-started/

For the visually impaired: Professor Itkin is conducting looking to his left with his baton raised in his right hand. He is wearing a cream-colored jacket with a white shirt and black bow tie. He wears oval silver-colored eyeglasses.

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12/05/2025

Thanks to Cowboys & Indians for featuring THE REEL THRILLING EVENTS OF BANK ROBBER HENRY STARR! Check out their interview with Mark Archuleta here:

New Book Spotlights Bank Robber-Turned-Silent Film Actor Henry Starr - https://www.cowboysindians.com/2025/12/new-book-spotlights-bank-robber-turned-silent-film-actor-henry-starr/

Screenwriter Mark Archuleta resurrects the life of Henry Starr, exploring how a notorious bank robber became an unlikely silent film star.

11/26/2025

"TUBBY stands as both an indispensable record of the US Army’s institutional evolution and a moving testament to the quiet endurance of one of its unsung professionals."

Thanks to H-Net Reviews for their new review of TUBBY: RAYMOND O. BARTON AND THE US ARMY, 1889-1963 by Stephen A. Bourque! Read the review here: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=61461

11/26/2025

Get 40% off on UNT Press books for Cyber Monday at tamupress.com!
Use discount code CYBER40 at checkout on Monday, December 1.

11/24/2025

Thanks to Neon Jazz for featuring Michael Stephans and a discussion of ON MY WAY TO THE SKY: REMEMBERING BOB BROOKMEYER. Check out the interview here:

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Writer & Musician Michael Stephans on the 2025 Bob Brookmeyer book On the Way to The Sky. He’...

11/21/2025

Listen to David Itkin on this week's West Texas Dispatch from KACU for a discussion of RIGHT BACK WHERE I STARTED: A MEMOIR IN MUSIC!

Hunting Season is underway. And officials are asking hunters to help watch for the spread of the New World Screwworm.We’ll hear about efforts in West Texas to preserve indigenous history –which has traditionally passed down through families–and a new effort in the South Plains to gather Native...

11/19/2025

Check out today's Texas Standard for a discussion with Miguel Juarez over his new book, FRONTERA FREEWAYS!

"Frontera Freeways" explores the legacy of growth and displacement brought on by the precursor to I-10.

11/08/2025

We are set up in Tent 7 at the Texas Book Festival! Swing by today from 11am-1pm to meet Randy Mallory and pick up a signed copy of THE FIFTY-YEAR TEXAS ROAD TRIP!

11/04/2025

NEW THIS MONTH FROM UNT PRESS!

OUTER STARS by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, winner of the 2025 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction

HAVE HORN, WILL TRAVEL: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF HERMAN "JUNIOR" COOK by Courtney M. Nero

YO SOY: FROM A MIGRANT FIELD WORKER TO A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR by Roberto E. Villarreal

Visit untpress.unt.edu to learn more about these titles and to order your own!

10/31/2025

Today is the final day to submit your manuscript for the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry! Visit https://untpress.unt.edu/authors/vassar-miller-submissions/ for submission information!

This is the last week to submit your manuscript for the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry! Submissions are open through Friday, Oct. 31, so visit https://untpress.unt.edu/authors/vassar-miller-submissions/ for guidelines and submission information and join the ranks of our fantastic previous VM Prize winners!