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The New Fiction Confab has developed a reputation for bringing stellar literary novelists to town to talk it out. This year’s just-announced lineup includes Ben Marcus, Heidi Julavits, Walter Kirn, and Peter Orner. Read More | Comment »

Readings 3:55PM Wed. Mar. 28, Kimberley Jones

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 »

News/Print 12:22PM Wed. Mar. 28, Kimberley Jones

A Lone Gunman Beget By 'The Good Father'

Fans of Noah Hawley's TV work, which includes Bones and The Unusuals, know well his ability to nimbly move back and forth between suspense and emotional drama. He reads from his literary novel The Good Father tonight at BookPeople. Read More | Comment »

Readings 3:54PM Mon. Mar. 26, 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 »

News/Print 2:28PM Mon. Mar. 26, Kimberley Jones

Poetry To Ponder the Universe To

Locals may recognize Nick Courtright's byline from his features work at the Austinist, where he serves as Interviews Editor and once asked Weird Al about method acting, but he considers more philosophical matters in his new collection of poetry, Punchline (Gold Wake Press). Read More | Comment »

Readings 2:45PM Fri. Mar. 23, Kimberley Jones

Unraveling Shakespeare's Life

Whether or not you believe William Shakespeare really wrote all those plays, you can probably concede that writing his life story is a challenge all its own. But Columbia professor of English James Shapiro has devised a cunning approach, one he's laid out in his acclaimed history, 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. Read More | Comment »

Nonfiction 11:00AM Fri. Mar. 23, Robert Faires

<i>TMNT</i> creator Kevin Eastman on the next Rodriguez project
 

Heavy Metal, Turtles and Troublemakers

Last year at San Diego Comic Con, Robert Rodriguez announced that he had picked up the rights to make a movie of legendary adult anthology comic Heavy Metal. So with publisher/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman in Austin last weekend for Staple!, we had to ask him: Where's the film? Read More | Comment »

Graphic Novels 3:21PM Thu. Mar. 8, Richard Whittaker

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 »

News/Print 2:12PM Wed. Mar. 7, Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner

Other than perusing book stores and occasionally the semi-annual Austin Record Convention, shopping of any sort is not high on my list of things I enjoy doing; never has been, and at my age, undoubtedly never will. Read More | Comment »

Bedside Manner 9:45AM Mon. Mar. 5, Jay Trachtenberg

Comics? Zines? People who MAKE them?


Yes, because: Read More | Comment »

Graphic Novels 3:51PM Thu. Mar. 1, Wayne Alan Brenner

Notes from a Kitchen?


First, let's agree. Read More | Comment »

Local Literati 3:16PM Fri. Feb. 24, Wayne Alan Brenner

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 »

News/Print 4:57PM Thu. Feb. 23, Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner

I wear entirely too many hats. A full plate of life’s dreams and aspirations coming to fruition by way of my perpetually increasing to-do list coupled with an occasional OCD flare-up creates a perfect storm for me as I try to navigate this wooly world. Read More | Comment »

Bedside Manner 11:48AM Mon. Feb. 20, Jessi Cape

Gaga Over Guzu

Tokidoki! Crappy Cats! Plushy internal organs! Darwyn Cooke's Parker adaptations! Coffee table art books by Shepard Fairey and Gary Baseman! Issues of Juxtapoz! Skateboard art! Art art!! Art art by Austin artists!! As if you needed more ways for Austin Books & Comics to part you and your hard-earned cash … now comes Guzu!!! Read More | Comment »

Graphic Novels 1:10PM Fri. Feb. 10, Robert Faires

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 »

News/Print 2:39PM Wed. Feb. 8, Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: Into the Unknown (With a Slight Detour to New York)

"Adventure ho!" might as well be my running theme these days. It follows me from page to screen to life and back again, and though I write about it occasionally, others write of it better than I. My adventures pale in comparison. Read More | Comment »

Bedside Manner 9:10AM Mon. Feb. 6, Marc Savlov

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 »

News/Print 4:58PM Fri. Jan. 27, Kimberley Jones

Mark Strand on UT Campus Tonight

Mark Strand, one of the greats of contemporary poetry, kicks off the Michener Center for Writers' spring reading series tonight. Read More | Comment »

Readings 11:11AM Thu. Jan. 26, Kimberley Jones

Ben Marcus at BookPeople

Did the best book of 2012 already come out? Read More | Comment »

Readings 7:17PM Mon. Jan. 23, Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: The Never-Ending Battle

A grinning Superman statue stands watch on my bedside table, and I figure that grin across his invulnerable mug comes from seeing me locked in my own never-ending battle: to reduce the stack of reading matter that's perpetually replenishing itself in the manner of a Hydra. I finish one book, and two more pop up to take its place. Read More | Comment »

Bedside Manner 10:52AM Mon. Jan. 23, Robert Faires

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