*THU, FEB 6: The San Gabriel Writers’ League will meet at 7:30pm at the
Georgetown Public Library to hear Joan Hall present a lecture titled “Show,
Don’t Tell” assisted by Cindy Weigand. Hall, who has taught high school English
for 28 years, has won several awards for her writing.
Call 512/819-9655 for
more information… Mary Gaitskill, author of the short story collection
Because They Wanted To, will be at Barnes & Noble at 7pm for a booksigning.
Gaitskill is also the author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin.
* THU, FEB 6: Austin author Beth Fowler comes to Barnes & Noble for a
booksigning to make pet lovers happy,
2-4pm. Fowler’s books include Could
You Love Me Like My Dog? and Could You Love Me Like My Cat?
*WED, FEB 12: John J. Nance will read from and sign copies of his latest
thriller, Medusa’s Child, at Book People, 7pm.
* FRI, FEB 14: John Smith, Meera Sundram, Scott Wiggerman, and Thom the World
Poet will read love poems for Valentine’s Day at Book People, 5-7pm.
* UPCOMING: UT’s Center for Mexican American Studies will honor Rolando
Hinojosa-Smith with a day-long symposium on Friday, Feb. 21 at the Bass Lecture
Hall. Hinojosa-Smith is the Ellen Clayton Garwood Professor in Creative Writing
in UT’s English department and is a native of Mercedes, Texas. He has been at
UT since 1981, and served as the director for the Center for Texas Writers from
1984 through 1993. Hinojosa-Smith is the author of the Klail City Death Trip
series of books, and also of This Migrant Earth, Dear Rafe, and Partners in
Crime. Participants in this event will include Trinity University’s Arturo
Madrid, USC’s Teresa McKenna, SWT’s Jaime Mejia, and Berkeley’s Jos�
David Saldivar. The program will include a reading by Hinojosa-Smith, panels
discussions and presentations. Call 471-2136 for more info…. Teresa McKenna,
a participant in the above event, will present the first spring lecture of the
“Chicana/Chicano Studies: Knowledge, Power and Advocacy” series Feb. 20 at the
Texas Union Eastwoods Room, 2.102, at 3:30pm. McKenna’s lecture is titled “The
Obsidian Mirror: Claiming the Stranger’s Face in Chicano Latin Studies.” Her
new book, Migrant Song: Politics and Process in Contemporary Chicano
Literature is due from UT Press this month.
* ONGOING: A contest for unpublished writers, sponsored by the Freelance
Writers Network, is accepting submissions of fiction and non-fiction short
stories and poetry through Feb. 15. Entries are limited to 1,500 words or less,
and there is a $9 entry fee. Send an unreturnable manuscript (no originals) to
“Smith & Hughes Publishing, “Best of Collection,” PO Box 57842, Oklahoma
City, OK 73112, or write to Darrell Thomas at that address for more info…
Half Price Books’ “Just Read” program has been expanded to include a “Just
Draw” program, wherein every time a child draws a book character on a Half
Price bookmark, Half Price will donate a book to a national literacy project
and the bookmark will be displayed in Half Price stores through Mar. 1…
“Post Scripts” is for author appearances and booksignings; the deadline is
two weeks before the issue date. Mail to:
The Austin Chronicle, PO
Box 49066, Austin, TX 78765;
fax 458-6910.
This article appears in February 7 • 1997 and February 7 • 1997 (Cover).