Today, Thursday, June 26, 7-9pm, Resistencia Bookstore and Red Salmon Arts
present Honoring All Nations, a program to feature speakers Rey Hernan-dez,
councilmember of the Coahuiltecan Nation, and Raul Salinas, local poet/activist. On exhibit
will be two murals-in-progress produced by students of Save Our Youth, led by
community artists Henry Gonzalez and G.C. Walter. Mario Garza will open and close the
evening with flute music.
Cowboy Mouths
On Saturday, June 28 at 7:30pm at the Dougherty Arts Center, Texas
Folklife Resources presents a free two-hour program called The Language of Tradition: The Cowboy
Way. The evening promises a performance from Amarillo cowboy poet Buck Ramsey,
Austin author Sarah Bird reading from her novel Virgin of the Rodeo, the
Reverend Mack Williams, a former cowboy who pastors three Baptist congregations in and
around Tivola, storyteller Alejandro Solis, Jr., and Louise O’ Connor, who will sign
Cryin’ for Daylight, her 1989 book which documents the language and lore of
cowboy life in the Texas Coastal Bend.
Moon A-Many
Bradley Denton will be reading from his novel Lunatics, which has
recently come out in softcover at Borders, Saturday, June 28 at 3pm. Denton has lived
in Austin for nine years, and so loves our town that he decided to set Lunatics here. The book, according to Fiona Cherbak of Borders, is more speculative fantasy
than science fiction; it concerns the crises of a group of friends in their
thirties and “a moon goddess who gets in the way,” as Denton explains it. Denton
offers that Austin’s famed moontowers provided more than a little inspiration in
formulating the moon goddess’ presence.
Ongoing: The exhibition The Life and Films of Warren Skaaren:
Screenwriter is showing in the seventh-floor gallery of the Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center through June 27…. Don Bachardy’s exhibit Confrontations, portraits
of famous literary figures such as Tennessee Williams, E.M. Forster, Anais Nin, W.H.
Auden, and Lillian Hellman among others, is showing at the Leeds Gallery at the
Flawn Academic Center on the UT campus until August 15. Bachardy’s portraits hedge the fine
line between formal and frenetic; they are clear, elegant insights into literary
figures to which we readers rarely receive such benign, open access… The Austin
Writers’ League is accepting entries for the Seventh annual Violet Crown Book Awards.
Three $1,000 prizes willl be presented for best books in fiction, nonfiction, and
literary categories for books published between September 1, 1996 and July 31, 1997.
Call 499-8914… Half Price Books has published the 1997 edition of Say
Goodnight to Illiteracy, a book of bedtime stories intended to raise money for
literacy programs. Writers wishing to submit stories for possible inclusion in next year’s
edition should look for forms at Half Price locations this fall. Entries will be due by
December 31 of this year.
Book news for “Post Scripts” must be received at least
one week before the issue date. Mail to: The Austin Chronicle,
PO Box 49066, Austin, TX 78765; fax 458-6910; or e-mail
clay@auschron.com.
This article appears in June 27 • 1997 and June 27 • 1997 (Cover).