On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, author Lara Prescott on ’The Secrets We Kept,’ a novel about a real-life CIA plot to publish ’Doctor Zhivago.’
The UT professor and longtime ’Texas Monthly’ contributor died on Saturday at the age of 79 after a stroke.
The award-winning writer and UT professor talks about her new novel, 'Bowlaway,' and how teaching and Texas have affected her work.
A chat with Jim Magnuson, the founding director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.
Over the past 23 years, the founding director of the Michener Center for Writers has helped launch countless literary careers. Here are a few of the program’s most notable graduates.
In his new book, James Magnuson, the head of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, skewers (lovingly) the people who attend programs like the one he directs.
Homegrown film director David Gordon Green and three writers who studied at the Michener Center made up the creative team behind "It's Halftime in America" commercial.
UT’s writing program achieves Texas-size success.
He gave millions—and he did it in a novel way.
A gift from James Michener enriches Texas’ student writers.
