Larry McMurtry is putting two-thirds of the inventory from his Archer City landmark bookstore Booked Up on the auction block.

BookWoman is gunning for a $250,000 small business grant. Here's the hiccup: They need 250 votes of support to be considered for 1 of 12 grants, and they need those votes now.

Just a few days left to take advantage of early registration prices for the Writers' League of Texas annual Agents and Editors Conference.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.