From the Texas Observer blog

Anne Terrell of The Texas Observer http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/index.php/2008/10/28/texas-observers-at-the-texas-book-festival/ found many of the publication's editor's, columnists', and writers' works at the Texas Book Festival.  Some of their Texana books she mentions are:  Bob Moser, Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority  reviewed here Robert Bryce  Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence," here. Jim Hightower will discuss his new book on real live mavericks, Swim Against the Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow. (forthcoming) Gary Keith, Eckhardt: There Once Was a Congressman from Texas, is reviewed in the Observer here. Joe Nick Patoski  Willie Nelson: An Epic Life Bud Shrake's Land of the Permanent Wave: An Edwin "Bud" Shrake Reader is reviewed here . C.E. Hunt's Big Thicket People: Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier is reviewed here