Rivers of Texas

at:

Alkek Library Seventh Floor, Texas State University

601 Univeristy Drive

San Marcos, TX   78666

Hays County

512-245-2313

http://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/

In conjunction with this years Common Experience at Texas State, which features Goodbye to a River by John Graves as the text, the Southwestern Writers Collection presents Rivers of Texas. This exhibition includes vintage archival materials from John Graves, including photographs and the canoe paddle he used on his Brazos river trip. Also represented is Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy, whose archives have been recently acquired by the SWWC. An early manuscript draft of McCarthys No Country for Old Men is featured, along withother works by writers Stephen Harrigan, Beverly Lowry, Joe Lansdale, Jan Reid, Joe Nick Patoski, and others who have published work about the states rivers, from the San Marcos to the Rio Grande. Also on view: a continuous screening of The River of Innocence documentary about the San Marcos river.