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Texas Book Festival: Nicky Drayden and Chris Brown

All science fiction is really about the present.
Austin-based science fiction authors Chris Brown and Nicky Drayden will both tell you that.

4:30PM Tue. Oct. 22, 2019, Elizabeth Cobbe Read More | Comment »

In Memoriam: Bill Wittliff

A giant of Austin's film, literary, and art scenes, and a proud son of the Lone Star State who seemed to devote as much energy to preserving its culture as writing about it, is gone. One day after celebrating his 56th wedding anniversary with his wife Sally, William Wittliff – oh, let's just call him "Bill" – suffered a heart attack and died. He was 79.

7:30AM Wed. Jun. 12, 2019, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Ice Pick’s Pies Are Warming Up This Cold Town

Let’s begin with the truth that, if these pies weren’t so remarkably good, we wouldn’t be writing this post at all.

2:00PM Wed. Mar. 6, 2019, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

On Story Premiere Party & Live Taping

KLRU

The Prom
at ZACH Theatre

Gay Science: The Book Tour at BookWoman

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

At the Crossroads: Joe Nick Patoski’s Austin to ATX

For Joe Nick Patoski, Austin is a city like no other, an anomalous spot of “blue in a sea of red,” where East Coast meets West and swimming laps in the chill waters of Barton Springs in February is oddly commonplace. His love for the city is covered in depth in his new book, Austin to ATX, launching Feb. 13 at the Austin Central Library.

10:00AM Mon. Feb. 11, 2019, Lauren Jones Read More | Comment »

Romancing the Holmes

Local author Sherry Thomas had genre-hopped before, having built a following with a blend of YA fantasy (the Elementals trilogy), Victorian romance (the Fitzhugh series), and homages to the Chinese martial art adventure genre wuxia (The Heart of Blade duology). But taking on a cultural icon as revered as Sherlock Holmes?

9:15AM Tue. Oct. 2, 2018, Rosalind Faires Read More | Comment »

Looking For a Writing Class, Austinite?

Of course you know that this is one hell of a writerly town. It’s the urban hub that a fellow no less celebrated than O. Henry called the City of the Violet Crown – although he may have meant it rather snidely in his short story, “Tictocq: The Great French Detective, In Austin.”

12:34PM Sun. Sep. 9, 2018, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

The Reader's Field Guide to Michael Noll

The night of Michael Noll’s BookPeople reading, the seating ran out quickly. Then the standing room ran out. Soon, people were all the way into the children’s section. Finally, all of Noll’s books ran out. It was a madness worthy of an established literary icon — which seems to be Noll’s future. For now, he’s the new author with the entire city behind him.

11:30AM Wed. Apr. 4, 2018, Katarina Brown Read More | Comment »

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

Tillie Walden, that Ignatz-winning author of the new graphic novel Spinning, will be at the Texas Book Festival this weekend. (For times, see below.) Until then, and after that, she’s – where? Los Angeles? Tokyo? Berlin? The new Central Library in this city’s own Downtown?

3:00PM Wed. Nov. 1, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

The Q&A Hole: What Got You Hooked On the Weird Stuff?

Compare the joy of reading to a sort of addiction and you can find a gateway drug in there somewhere. (In the case of science fiction, maybe a person’s gateway was even Frederik Pohl’s excellent 1977 novel Gateway.) And since we always like to know where the good stuff is, we invoked our ongoing series to ask this recent gathering of SFF writers:

6:00AM Thu. Jul. 13, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

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