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The Austin Review's Launch Party Is GO
Shame on us for even mentioning "noms."

1:35PM Fri. Jan. 10, 2014, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Doug Dorst, Part Two: The Coffeehouse Transcript About 'S.' Continues!
… and welcome back to the Doug-Dorst-and-four-other-literary-types-talking-about-S. transcript here in the everbright pixels of your Austin Chronicle.

12:01PM Tue. Dec. 10, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

'Downton Abbey' Trivia Contest, Book Signing, Tea & Cookies
With season four of Downton Abbey set to resume on PBS January 5, now is the time to brush up on series trivia. Austin Chronicle contributor Melanie Haupt will lead a trivia contest Tuesday, Dec. 10 at the Barnes & Noble in the Arboretum at a tea party that also includes a discussion and signing of her new book.

4:30PM Mon. Dec. 9, 2013, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Doug Dorst puts the S. in 'Ship of Theseus' with this JJ Abrams Collaboration
Doug Dorst, author of Alive in Necropolis ( runner-up for the 2008 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award) and the short-story collection The Surf Guru, will be talking about the intricacies of his newest book at BookPeople tonight.

4:15PM Mon. Dec. 9, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Staple! Lives!
Comic fans and connoisseurs of the graphic arts, start filling your 2014 calendar. Austin's own indie media expo Staple! just announced a local mainstay and two rising talents of the alternative circuit as their guest list headliners. Expect undead Archie, time-stopping titillation and supervillains in braces.

7:00AM Tue. Dec. 3, 2013, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Street Style, Festival Edition
This past weekend, two of the city's most beloved fests did battle for dominance on Congress Avenue: the Texas Book Festival and the Austin Film Festival.

3:55PM Mon. Oct. 28, 2013, Amy Gentry Read More | Comment »

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Crawl With the Authors of Your Favorite Books
Of course, because it started in San Francisco, it was called Litquake – and known as "literary mayhem at its finest." Here in the ATX, though, we've got little fear of collectively tumbling into any vast body of water, vague mutterings of the old Balcones Fault notwithstanding, and so this event's called Lit Crawl instead.

2:15PM Tue. Oct. 22, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

One of Us Asks 'Write a Movie with Us'
Ever wanted to write a film script, but worried you couldn't do it alone? Enter OneofUs.net stage left, with their newest project: Write a Movie with Us.

5:35PM Wed. Oct. 16, 2013, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Comic Creator Flooded Out
As South Austin mops up and braces for more potential storms, one of the ATX's comic scene's most beloved transplants, 30 Days of Night creator Steve Niles is rooting through the drenched debris in his house.

1:37PM Sun. Oct. 13, 2013, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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