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Staple! Storms Austin
Richard Whittaker
Wed Mar 10, 11:45pm
Tags: Comics
Pardon the pun, but the Staple! Independent Media Expo has become a, well, staple of the Austin sequential art scene. Last Saturday's event, with big-name graphic artist guests and local cartooning stars, was no exception.
Harry Ransom Center + David Foster Wallace = <3 4EVER
Wayne Alan Brenner
Tue Mar 9, 2:06pm
Here we are now in the year after Infinite Summer, where literate people across the globe read Infinite Jest for the first time, and it's the year in which the University of Texas' heady body of archived culture – the Ransom Center, yes – has glommed onto most everything that remains, paper-trailwise, of what Our Man With The Bandanna created.
These Streets Were Made for Talking
Kimberley Jones
Tue Mar 9, 12:21pm
Alex Karpovsky has had a charmed run with SXSW – 2010 marks his third consecutive year in attendance as a festival filmmaker or actor – but pre-SXSW, the peripatetic Austinite will be at BookPeople Thursday night to perform from the Basho-inspired Ten Walks/Two Talks.
Time for Staple!ing
Richard Whittaker
Fri Mar 5, 2:30pm
Tags: Comics
With some wet weather heading this way, the only thing better to do than sit home and read comics is to head to the Staple! indie media expo to meet some big name indie comics creators.
Sports and Social Justice With David Zirin
Timothy Braun
Fri Mar 5, 12:20pm
Tags: MLB
David Zirin collects accolades like baseball cards. He was named one of the UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World," he’s been awarded Press Action's Sportswriter of the Year twice, and often graces television screens as a guest analyst on various CNN, ESPN, and MSNBC programs. However, Zirin is much more than a sports journalist.
'A People’s History of Sports in the United States'
Timothy Braun
Fri Mar 5, 12:17pm
In A People’s History of Sports in the United States ($26.95, The New Press), author David Zirin welcomes the reader to the proverbial adults table of American sports with a historical blow-by-blow of social engagement, race relations, gender struggles, and political upheaval that have surrounded some of our favorite pastimes.
Tinkering With Death
Jordan Smith
Mon Feb 22, 5:14pm
University of Houston law professor and Texas Defender Service litigation director David Dow's new memoir The Autobiography of an Execution (Twelve, $24.99) is a quietly written and devastating indictment of the death penalty in general, and of its practice in Texas in particular.
A Perfect Day for Talking About Bananafish
Kimberley Jones
Tue Feb 16, 4:27pm
It should come as no surprise that included in the Harry Ransom Center's holdings is some of J.D. Salinger's unpublished correspondence. (Seriously, is there anybody the HRC doesn't have a file on?) The hoi polloi will get to hear excerpts from these letters and more at an upcoming tribute presented by the HRC and American Short Fiction.
Austin Gets Spiked
Richard Whittaker
Tue Feb 9, 8:37pm
Ever since Wizard World announced that it would be bringing its sci-fi and fantasy convention to Austin, speculation has been high about the guest list. The first three confirmed names were fun, but the latest will get some pulses pounding: James Marsters, the one and only Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Go Greek
Kimberley Jones
Sun Feb 7, 8:53am
The classics keep on ticking, and tickling the imagination of modern authors – in these first two months of 2010 alone, we’ve seen David Malouf’s Illiad-reimagining Ransom and Zachary Mason’s The Lost Books of the Odyssey. Now Austin author Katharine Beutner has got into the act, too, with Alcestis.
Ghost Riding
Richard Whittaker
Fri Jan 29, 4:37pm
It may be ten months away, but Wizard World has already announced three special guests for the Austin leg of their pop culture convention.
Undead Alert!
Kimberley Jones
Fri Jan 22, 4:11pm
BookPeople hosts a reading tonight for local author BJ Burrow, whose novel The Changed is about an ordinary guy who becomes a leading agent in the fight for undead rights. You know what that means, right? Zombies at BookPeople!
MCW Alum Brian Hart Reads at BookPeople
Kimberley Jones
Wed Jan 20, 2:05pm
Brian Hart is no stranger to accolades – in 2006, he become the first-ever recipient of the University of Texas’ Keene Prize for Literature, the largest student literary prize in existence. Now his debut novel is netting him some awfully nice notices. As in, “quietly exceptional,” quoth The New Yorker.
Wizard World in the ATX
Richard Whittaker
Wed Jan 6, 5:00pm
Best new comics day ever! First the big-screen adaptation of Kick-Ass is booked for SXSW, then we heard that 30 Days of Night creator Steve Niles will be in town in May 2011 for the World Horror Convention. Now the Wizard World pop culture convention confirms it's coming to the capital of Texas this November.
Hard-Boiled at B&N
Kimberley Jones
Tue Dec 29, 5:42pm
, 2009
All most Hollywood scribes had to show for the 2007 writers’ strike was a strike beard, but Lou Berney went and wrote himself a novel – and a well-reviewed one at that.
Pimp That Kindle, and Other Gift Ideas for Book Lovers
Kimberley Jones
Tue Nov 24, 1:13pm
, 2009
Tags: Gift ideas
Honestly, the rise of e-readers makes our soul hurt, but that doesn't change the fact that key individuals on our holiday gift-buying list are Kindle converts. So what to get that very special futurist in the family?
Sister Jessica Explains It All for You
Cindy Widner
Mon Nov 16, 4:02pm
, 2009
If girls – that's girls, not ladies, women, or grrrls – fail to save rock & roll as planned, it won't be for lack of instruction manuals.
'Redefining Beauty' party and signing tonight
Kimberley Jones
Fri Nov 13, 3:49pm
, 2009
Karla K. Morton, the 2010 Texas State Poet Laureate, reads tonight from her new collection of poetry, Redefining Poetry, which deals with her own battle with cancer, from diagnosis through to treatment, as in “Eyelashes� (after the jump) and then recovery.
Where Art Meets Craft
Kimberley Jones
Fri Oct 30, 3:03pm
, 2009
"Let's make a book, y'all," urges the Austin Makes a Book project. With that potent mix of can-do and down-home, how could you say no?
Room To Read Fundraiser Tonight
Ashley Moreno
Thu Oct 15, 11:17am
, 2009
This evening (10/15), from 6-10pm, Room to Read will host a fundraising dinner at the Clay Pit featuring contemporary Indian cuisine, dance, and music. Proceeds go to promote education scholarships for girls, local language children’s books, and library construction in India.
Claudio Sanchez: My Life in Comics
Richard Whittaker
Wed Oct 7, 1:07pm
, 2009
Tags: Comics
It's been a big week for Claudio Sanchez: Not only did his band Coheed and Cambria rip up the LiveStrong stage at Austin City Limits, but his new comic Kill Audio hits the racks.
Judy Shepard Reads at BookPeople
Matthew Patin
Mon Sep 28, 11:10am
, 2009
Thousands will march for marriage equality in Washington on Oct. 11, just a little over eleven years after Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder in Laramie, Wyoming.
Book Ban Bonanza
Jordan Smith
Mon Sep 28, 10:33am
, 2009
Tags: Banned Books
There's good news and more good news for you during this year's Banned Books Week. For starters, according to the Texas ACLU, there were no book challenges this year in Austin ISD.
Fantastic Fest: Dr. Ronald Chevalier at BookPeople
Kimberley Jones
Wed Sep 23, 1:59pm
, 2009
Tags: Fantastic Fest
Reading is fundamental, sure, but Friday's reading at BookPeople is fundamentally a lie – a really fun lie, we should add. Because when you see Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) at BookPeople on Friday, he'll be in character as the entirely fictitious sci-fi/fantasy novelist Dr. Ronald Chevalier.
ASF Celebrates Its Fall Issue With a Free and Cozy-Sounding Event
Kimberley Jones
Thu Sep 17, 1:45pm
, 2009
Tags: American Short Fiction
The cover of the new American Short Fiction is swathed in a budded tree and autumnal colors – a tease of the season to come. Sure, it's still too soon for sweater weather, but we'd like to think of the ASF's outdoor reading tomorrow night, in celebration of their Fall issue, as unofficial kickoff to the season.
