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Traversing the Texas Book Festival

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Traversing the Texas Book Festival


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Big Lit October 30, 2009
Previewing the 2009 Texas Book Festival

Previous Coverage October 30, 2009
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Ben Greenman at the 2009 Austin Jewish Book Fair

Use Your Words October 30, 2009
The 18th annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

Diana Welch talks about the joint memoir she wrote with her siblings about surviving childhood

Another Shadow-Day Knight September 11, 2009
The Harry Ransom Center uncasks the curious life and works of Edgar Allan Poe

Heavy-hitter attendees include Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jonathan Lethem

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A Glass of Water: Baca brings his distinctive poetic timbre to his debut novel about Mexican immigrants laboring in the chile fields of the Southwest
Mathilda Savitch: A Novel: In Mathilda Savitch's best stretches, it is a marvel of observational acuity and lyrical phrasing
The Year of the Flood: A Novel: Atwood's latest is a remarkable parable of a world ruined by corporate tyranny, reckless technology, casual violence, and utter disdain for the natural order
Hell: A Novel: In this comic novel set in the underworld, Butler swings for the fences but creates little more than a breeze
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Room To Read Fundraiser Tonight: Proceeds go to promote education scholarships for girls, local language children’s books, and library construction in India

Claudio Sanchez: My Life in Comics: Coheed and Cambria frontman explains how he will Kill Audio

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