Mixed Notes
Local literary firm Phenix & Phenix has opened an online bookstore at http://www.Books.451.com with Mark Greene of Pecos Design fashioning the site. Leann Phenix says the site is designed to “help out the little guy,” with an emphasis on selling titles represented by Phenix’s agency as well as authors whose books are published by small presses and self-published titles. Authors featured at the site are not bound to any exclusive arrangement with Phenix and their books will also be sold in conventional bookstores. Some current titles include The True Women Cookbook by Janice Woods Windle, Living Longer Than Hate by C.S. Ragsdale, and Why Lawyers Lie & Engage in Other Repugnant Behavior by Mark Perlmutter…
On Friday, November 14, 5pm, Riva Castleman, retired chief curator of prints and illustrated books at the Museum of Modern Art in New York will give a talk entitled “On Breaching the Boundaries: Artists and Books Since 1945” at the Knopf Room, fourth floor of the Flawn Academic Center. The event is sponsored by the UT Art Department and the Huntington Art Gallery. Reception to follow…
In other UT book events, the Texas Center for Writers hosts Aryeh Lev Stollman discussing his recently published first novel, The Far Euphrates, on Thursday, November 20 at 2pm at the HRHRC’s Tom Lea Room on the third floor. Stollman has published stories in The Yale Review, American Short Fiction, and Story. According to Marla Akin of TCW, the novel touches upon issues of “how we find meaning in a post-Holocaust world; how we define the notion of `home’ in modern times; and what our responsibilities are to ourselves and each other.”…
On Thursday, November 20, 7pm, at Barnes & Noble Westlake, artist Michael Ray Charles will be discussing his work, captured in Michael Ray Charles: 1989-1997, An American Artist’s Work…
Adventures in Crime and Space (609 A West Sixth Street) hosts Lawrence Person, Bruce Sterling, and Don Webb from 7:30-9:30pm, Friday, November 14…
Barnes & Noble Arboretum hosts UT Press author Raye Virginia Allen reading from her biography Gordon Conway: Fashioning a New Woman on Saturday, November 15, 4pm. And on Friday, November 14, 7pm, that store hosts three Texas football legends, Darrell Royal, Doak Walker, and John David Crow discussing Dan Jenkins’ Texas College Football Legends…
Barnes & Noble Guadalupe hosts Devon Pe�a Thursday, November 13, 5pm, to sign The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexican Border. The signing follows his lecture at the UT Student Union…
Cultural anthropologist Dr. Martin Oettinger, curator of Latin American art at the San Antonio Museum of Art, will be signing his book El Alma del Pueblo: Spanish Folk Art and Its Transformation in the Americas on Saturday, November 15, 6pm, at Tesoros Trading Company, 209 Congress. His book is the companion to the museum’s exhibit, which opened in October. Local authors Joe P. Carr and Karen Witynski will be signing their book, Mexican Country Style, along with Oettinger’s event.
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This article appears in November 14 • 1997 and November 14 • 1997 (Cover).