* THU, OCT 19: UT philosophy professor Tara Smith will be at the University
Coop bookstore to sign her new book, Moral Rights and Political
Freedoms, 4-6pm… Adrienne deWolfe, author of Texas Outlaw, will
address the Austin Writers’ League on “Chilling Out: The Writer’s Cure for
Burn-out,” 7pm at the First Unitarian Church. Call 499-8914 for info.
* FRI, OCT 20: Photographer Jim Arndt will be at BookStop Sunset Valley to
promote and sign The Cowboy Boot Book, 5-7pm… Ex-Austinite Thomas
Zigal, author of Playland, will be at BookPeople for a booksigning of
his latest mystery, Into Thin Air, 7pm… Mary Willis Walker will be at
Barnes & Noble for her new book Under the Beetle’s Cellar, 7-8pm.
* SAT, OCT 21: Nancy Mantha, author of Looking for Diamonds, will be
at Barnes & Noble’s Saturday Storytime for kids, 11am… Mystery authors
Barbara Burnet Smith and Susan Rogers Cooper are at Adventures in Crime &
Space bookstore, 2-4pm… Lone Star Dinosaurs‘ author Louis Jacobs will
be at BookStop Central Park in honor of the book’s publication,
2-4pm…
Local writer R.J. Pineiro is at BookStop Crossroads in celebration of his
latest thriller, Retribution, 2-4pm… Austin’s Charles Meyer is at
BookStop Sunset Valley for a booksigning celebrating his novel, Saints of
God, 2-4pm… Just in time for Halloween, David J. Skal will be at Barnes
& Noble to sign copies of his new tome, V Is for Vampire,
4-6pm.
* SUN, OCT 22: Popular locals Mary Willis Walker (Red Scream),
William Browning Spencer (Zod Wallop), and Carolyn Banks (Tart
Tales) make booksigning appearances at Adventures in Crime and Space
Bookstores, 2-4pm… Acclaimed author (and ex-Chron writer) Lars Eighner
is at Barnes & Noble to read and sign his latest, Pawn to Queen
Four, 7-8pm.
* TUE, OCT 24: Socio-political satirist P.J. O’Rourke – a writer whose
wicked style inspired me to pursue this profession, then betrayed me by coming
out of the closet as a Republican – will be at Book People to promote his
memoirs, Age & Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, 7pm.
That’ll be me at the back of the crowd, fuming but fascinated.
* WED, OCT 25: Tim O’Brien, author of In the Lake of the Woods, will
be at Book-People for a reading and signing, 7pm.
– Margaret Moser “Post Scripts” is for author appearance and booksignings; deadline is two
weeks before issue date. Mail to: The Austin Chronicle, PO Box 49066,
Austin,TX 78765; fax 458-6910.
This article appears in October 20 • 1995 and October 20 • 1995 (Cover).