The San Antonio Public Library Foundation’s Copyright Texas Reading Series, which has highlighted “twenty celebrated novelists, poets, journalists, screenwriters, and essayists” every year since 1995, kicks off this year’s series at the Main Library Auditorium (600 Soledad) on Sunday, March 7, at 6pm with readings from local authors Carol Dawson (The Mother-in-Law Diaries), Southwest Texas State poet and professor Cyrus Cassells (Beautiful Signor), and Michener Center director James Magnuson (Windfall). Featured authors don’t have to live in Texas, but must have some connection to the state; poet Tino Villanueva, who teaches Spanish at Boston University (and grew up in San Marcos) will be participating this weekend. Villanueva’s volume of poetry Scene From the Movie Giant (1993) won an American Book Award, but his latest book is Chronicle of My Worst Years (1994). Former San Antonio Light reporter Laura Lippman, the creator of the Tess Monaghan mystery series (Baltimore Blues, Charm City, Butchers Hill) is coming in from Baltimore for the reading. Avon Books will publish the fourth title in the Tess Monaghan series, In Big Trouble, in October. Call 210/225-4728 for more information or directions to the Main Library. The series is open and free to the public…
David Cohen, a professor of clinical psychology at UT and the author of Stranger in the Nest, will lead an open forum about “whether genetics hold the key to our children’s future, the seven golden rules of parenting, and why certain children behave like perfect strangers” at Barnes & Noble Guadalupe Monday, March 8 at 7pm. The next day at that store brings Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer David McCullough, author of the bestselling biography Truman, at 3:30pm…
Toad Hall hosts Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen, who has written more than 175 books (in one article, Paulsen says, “I work all the time. I don’t drink, I don’t fool around, I’m just this way”). On Tuesday, March 9 at 6pm, Paulsen will read from Brian’s Return, the conclusion to Paulsen’s “Brian” series, which includes Hatchet, The River, and Brian’s Winter…
The Texas Historical Commission (THC) and the Texas State Historical Association present a book signing with historian William C. Foster and translator Johanna Warren, the authors of The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687, on Wednesday, March 10 from 4-6:30pm at the Texas Historical Commission Library at 1510 N. Congress. In July 1995, the THC discovered La Salle’s 311-year-old ship, the Belle, in Matagorda Bay; the book is Joutel’s personal account of 17th-century French explorer La Salle’s expedition to establish a colony in the New World…
The editors of Utter, a local literary magazine, will present their second issue at Borders on Wednesday, March 10 at 7pm…
UT Press author Monte Akers will host a discussion of his book Flames After Midnight: Murder, Vengeance and the Desolation of a Texas Community, which analyzes the 1922 murder of Eula Ausley King in the East Texas town of Kirven (which is little more than a ghost town today) at Barnes & Noble Arboretum, Saturday, March 13, from 2-4pm. At least five innocent black men were tortured and killed for the death, Akers discovers…
The deadline for applying for one of two publishing fellowships offered by UT Press, the UT Press Publishing Fellowship (for UT Austin graduates) and the Michener Fellowship (for Humanities graduates) is March 16. For applications, visit the UT Press Web site, http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/html/fellow.html or call 471-7233.
This article appears in March 5 • 1999 and March 5 • 1999 (Cover).