With just one month to go until the Texas Book Festival, it's time to hit the books.

It's a staged reading of work by David Foster Wallace! Selections from Infinite Jest are part of the lineup. And The Broom of the System. And a letter from DFW to Don DeLillo. And a bit of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. And, as a closer, the Kenyon commencement speech.

Pulitzer Prize winner and longtime University of Texas professor William H. Goetzmann passed away yesterday. He was 79.

The Dallas Morning News broke the news last week that Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham (The Hours), a big draw for fans of literary fiction, has dropped out of the fest.

You know the whole “if these walls could talk” thing? Well, listen up, son, ‘cause these walls probably know a thing or two about twist endings.

Many a writer will swear by the effectiveness of a nice glass of vino in loosing the creative juices, which makes House Wine the perfect venue for American Short Fiction's upcoming craft talk.

There's a lot to recommend Britain – this, this, and this, to barely scratch the surface. Also: Its continuing commitment to the languishing tradition of radio plays. And now BBC Radio 4 has tapped Austin author Wena Poon's new bullfighting novel Alex y Robert to make the transition to radio.

The longlist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize was announced today... and readers everywhere hang their heads sheepishly for spending the summer cramming Stieg Larsson.

Unpublished writers struggling to get their work out to a broader audience know all too well the feeling of doors slammed shut in their face. But the Writers League of Texas wants to help jam a foot in that door.