Vallie Fletcher Taylor, author of Rebel Private: Front and Rear, will speak on
diaries and memoirs at the Thu., Feb. 20 meeting of the Austin Writers’ League
(AWL), 7pm at the First Unitarian/Universalist Church. Fletcher’s book is a
revised memoir of her great grandfather’s experiences in the Civil War, which
he originally had published in 1908 and which was used by Margaret Mitchell in
research for Gone With the Wind.For more info, call 499-8914.
Hinojosa-Smith Forum
UT’s Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) will honor RolandoHinojosa-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… In another CMAS
event, McKenna 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.
Events
* FRI, FEB 14: John Smith, Meera Sundram, Scott Wiggerman, and Thom the WorldPoet will read love poems for Valentine’s Day at Book People, 5-7pm.
* SAT, FEB 15: Young readers (age 3 and up) can meet Angelina Ballerina, the
dancing mouse, at Toad Hall, 11am-1:30pm. $4 RSVP, including dance lessons,
storytime, crafts, and a cheese sandwich lunch.
* MON, FEB 17: Kyle Jarrard will sign copies of and read excerpts from his new
novel, Over There, at Book People beginning at 7pm. Jarrard is a UT graduate
who moved to Paris in 1981. He has been an editor at the International Tribune
Herald since 1988 and has an article in the current American Way magazine.
* TUE, FEB 18: David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) will discuss and sign
copies of his new book, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, at Book
People at 7pm. Supposedly Fun is a collection of his writings on a wide range
of topics, from tennis to postmodern literary theory.
* WED, FEB 19: Aromatherapist Judith Jackson, author of The Magic of
Well-Being, will perform aromatherapy profiles on everyone who attends her
booksigning at Barnes & Noble, 7-8pm.
Send info on booksigning, author appearances, and other literary news to
“Post Scripts,” The Austin Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin, TX 78765;
fax 458-6910; or e-mail to lnichols@auschron.com
This article appears in February 14 • 1997 and February 14 • 1997 (Cover).