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Wild Thing, We Surely Loved You

News came of Maurice Sendak's passing after the workday started, which means the collective calling-in-sick-and-cuddling-up-to-his-books will have to wait until tomorrow. Read More | Comment »

12:29PM Tue. May. 8, Kimberley Jones

Gentlewoman and a Scholar

For the first time in its history, the Texas Institute of Letters has awarded its Stanley Walker Newspaper Journalism award to an altweekly writer – specifically, to none other than our very own Jordan Smith. Read More | Comment »

10:17AM Tue. Apr. 17, Monica Riese

Fotos De Mi Alma Photo Auction Tomorrow

Latinitas, the first digital magazine made for and by young Latinas, celebrates 10 years of operation this spring. In order to fund its programs – the girl-empowering website, which nets 30,000 readers a month, and vigorous community outreach – the organization will hold its annual Fotos de mi Alma photography auction tomorrow. Read More | Comment »

12:22PM Wed. Mar. 28, Kimberley Jones

Film Flam

Austin-based but Madrid-born, filmmaker Mario Troncoso has a great excuse to re-cross the Atlantic come May: He's going to Cannes. Read More | Comment »

2:28PM Mon. Mar. 26, Kimberley Jones

The Road to Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center announced today that it had acquired the archives of Tom Coraghessan “T.C.” Boyle, the celebrated author of such works as The Road to Wellville, World's End, and The Tortilla Curtain. Read More | Comment »

2:12PM Wed. Mar. 7, Kimberley Jones

Mayor's Book Club: 'Salvage the Bones'

In its annual effort to get Austinites on the same page, the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation announced today its 2012 Mayor’s Book Club pick, Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones. Read More | Comment »

4:57PM Thu. Feb. 23, Kimberley Jones

Film Flam

It sounds like the unpromising lead up to a punchline: What do you get when you combine a poet, a screenwriter, a novelist... and the Super Bowl? Read More | Comment »

2:39PM Wed. Feb. 8, Kimberley Jones

World Book Night Doesn't Happen Overnight, You Know

World Book Night, a UK initiative that's now including our side of the pond, isn't happening until April, but it's time to start planning in our part of the world this Monday at BookPeople. Read More | Comment »

4:58PM Fri. Jan. 27, Kimberley Jones

AC Short Story Contest Update

The ten finalists for our 20th annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest have been selected and contacted. Read More | Comment »

4:45PM Wed. Jan. 18, Kimberley Jones

The Austin Book, Paper, & Photo Show

Used, rare, and collectible books enthusiasts will have two days to thumb (gently!) through the wares displayed at this weekend's annual Austin Book, Paper, & Photo Show. Read More | Comment »

3:03PM Fri. Jan. 13, Kimberley Jones

Ode to the FAB

Every time I come to New Orleans I have to go to Faubourg Marigny Art & Books (hereafter FAB) on 600 Frenchmen, just past the border of the French Quarter. It’s a used bookstore, already a win in the Andyverse, but it also holds videos, art, archives of newspapers, porny magazines and all kinds of dusty trinket. And there’s no price tag – on anything. Read More | Comment »

10:30AM Fri. Jan. 13, Andy Campbell

What To Do After SXSW

So, after all that, what do we think of David Foster Wallace now? Wait, did I just imitate, albeit feebly, the way he wrote? And did I just do it again, with that second question? Read More | Comment »

9:53PM Thu. Jan. 12, Cindy Widner

American Short Fiction's Long To-Do List

American Short Fiction editor Jill Meyers recently dropped us a line about what's happening in ASF's near future, and goodness, it's a full slate. Read More | Comment »

3:04PM Thu. Jan. 5, Kimberley Jones

Short Stories, Shorter Skirts

I went on KVUE today to talk about the Chronicle’s annual Short Story Contest. One of my pearls of wisdom? Have a trusted friend read your story before you submit it. Wish I’d had a trusted friend tell me that skirt was going to look really, really short on TV. Read More | Comment »

11:19PM Mon. Dec. 12, 2011, Kimberley Jones

What Amazon Will – But Mostly Won't – Do For You

Heard about Amazon's sneaky new scheme to enlist an army of information gatherers? In a new blog post, one of BookPeople's employees explains what the online retail giant won't do for you. Read More | 1 Comment »

2:14PM Wed. Dec. 7, 2011, Kimberley Jones

Push! Push!

To call the Austin Bat Cave a writing and tutorial center for kids is technically accurate but also vastly undersells the sheer awesomeness of the endeavor. Read More | Comment »

4:46PM Wed. Nov. 9, 2011, Kimberley Jones

Illuminating Austin Authors

Tickets are available to Nov. 18's inaugural Illumine Awards, handed out by the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation for excellence in literary achievement and advocacy. Now, they're pricey tickets, mind you, but how else you gonna rub elbows with Austin books haut monde? Read More | Comment »

3:13PM Wed. Nov. 9, 2011, Kimberley Jones

Scott Blackwood Wins Whiting Writer's Award

We loved Scott Blackwood's 2009 novel We Agreed to Meet Just Here … and we weren't the only ones. Last week, Blackwood received a $50,000 Whiting Writers' Award, given annually to emerging writers. Read More | Comment »

4:00PM Tue. Nov. 1, 2011, Kimberley Jones

If Book Jackets Could Walk, and Woo

We always thought books were living things. Read More | Comment »

4:06PM Tue. Oct. 25, 2011, Kimberley Jones

J.M. Coetzee Comes Back to TX

The Harry Ransom Center announced today its acquisition of the archive of South African novelist and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. It amounts to something of a homecoming: Coetzee earned his Ph.D from the University of Texas in 1969. Read More | Comment »

3:50PM Mon. Oct. 10, 2011, Kimberley Jones

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