LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – (News release from Texas Tech University Press)
Texas Tech University Press invites guests to purchase tickets for their Annual Literary Lubbock gala dinner. Literary Lubbock 2026 is set for 6:00–8:30 PM on Tuesday, November 10, at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion on the Texas Tech campus.
The evening includes a reception, seated dinner, book sales, and short presentations by authors of this year’s featured books. The evening’s emcee will be Andy Wilkison. Proceeds support the Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest book series. Named for the university’s eighth president, this TTU Press book series focuses on culture, history, natural history, and the sciences as they define the Southwest.
The featured titles for Literary Lubbock 2026 include:
Down in the Dirt: Graphic Art by Terry Allen, 1970–2025 by Peter S. Griggs, with Terry Allen. (Chronicles more than fifty years of multidisciplinary artist Terry Allen’s printmaking and visual storytelling.)
Hill Country Ball: Depression-Era Baseball in the Texas German Belt by Richard W. Butler Jr. (Traces the emergence of baseball in a unique corner of the American West, where German settlers transformed the national pastime into a Sunday tradition.)
Lone Star Séance: A History of Texas Spiritualism by John B. Buescher. (Part occult history, part frontier Western, the story of a “cultural infection” that became a Texas obsession.)
Pigs, Pets, and Public Health: One Veterinarian’s Journey by Dr. Ronald D. Warner. (The memoir of a retired veterinarian with experience in both private and public-health practice who was a member of the core group that made the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine a reality.)
The Story the Bones Tell: A History of the Lubbock Lake Landmark by Sally Logue Post. (A history of the archeological and sociological significance of the Lubbock Lake Landmark in particular and the Llano Estacado more broadly.)
Authors will personalize books for guests.
Tickets are $75 each. Sponsorship tables (seating 8) are available for $1,200. The deadline for sponsorships is Oct. 30, and the deadline for individual tickets is Nov. 3. Tickets and sponsorships can be purchased by calling (806) 742-2982 or online at https://www.ttupress.org/.
Contact TTU Press Managing Director Joanna Conrad at joanna.conrad@ttu.edu for more information.
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