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COSPONSORED BY: 41r UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS May 8, 2010 oon Scholz Garten Austin, Texas Saturday, r. iminumuniummoir 41W NEW EVENTS! FREE TO THE PUBLIC! JOIN US FOR SIX SESSIONS ON BOOKS, ART AND CULTURE ‘writers’ festival CELEBRATING TEXAS BOOKS & AUTHORS V 401 executive editor and anchor of The News Hour on PBS talking about his new novel Super Random House Hardcover to be released April 20, 2010 f FEATURING il4 JIM LEHRER JIM LZHRER 13, -1%”: Writing About Texas Music Jan Reid and Bill Minutaglio East Texas Scribblers Joe Lansdale and Robert Leleux Pride and Populism H.W. Brands, Jim Hightower and Sissy Farenthold Austin Film on Paper Alison Macor and Josh Rosenblatt Texas Journalism, Fact and Fiction Jake Silverstein and Bob Moser Ts.= srz vium Sarah Bird and Spike Gillespie and more! Books will be available for purchase and authors will be signing. Jan Reid, author of Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm Jake Silverstein, editor, Texas Monthly, and author of Nothing Happened and Then It Did H.W. Brands, author of Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sarah Bird, author of The Yakota Officers Club Bill Minutaglio, author of Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life Robert Leleux, Texas Observer columnist and author of Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy Spike Gillespie, Texas Observer contributor and author of Quilty as Charged Joe Lansdale, author of Vanilla Ride Sirtt .o na t otaw ali swi Atize RECOGNIZING SUPERIOR JOURNALISM IN THE TRADITION OF MOLLY IVINS Save the Date Thursday, June 10, 2010 The Four Seasons Hotel Austin, Texas *;’<-.Details on sponsorships will be available shortly. For more information contact Jaime Kilpatrick at kilpatrick@ texasobserver.org or 512-477-0746. Each year, The Texas Observer honors an oustanding journalist whose writing embodies the intelligence, deep thinking and passionate wit that marked Molly's work. Join us for the Third Annual MOLLY National Journalism Prize Dinner and celebration honoring Molly's incredible and indelible legacy and the truth-telling journalism so important to our democracy. OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER WILL BE Seymour Hersh the .Pulitzer Prize-TiPinner who exposed the Abu Ghraib prison abuse in Iraq.