Marian Henley will bring her new collection, Laughing Gas: The Best of Maxine (Republic of Texas Press, $21.95), to BookPeople on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7pm. According to Henley, whose inspired strip serves as a weekly pinprick of manic, disturbingly comforting comedy in this paper and others, she’ll “show a short animated Maxine video called ‘Dr. Ach’s Office’ and a live short called ‘Laughing Gas’ with me as Maxine and Sara Hickman as Simone. I’ll also have a display with a Maxine original, the kind of pen, pencil, etc., that I use, and a selection of my most vitriolic hate mail!”… Also at BookPeople, on Saturday, Nov. 9, 3pm: Jonathan Carroll. His White Apples (Tor, $24.95) is reviewed online by our Ric Williams at austinchronicle.com/books. As a personal favor, I’m asking you to read that, as well as City Editor Mike Clark-Madison’s review of Thomas Patterson‘s The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty (Knopf, $25), which is also online-only. And keep a close eye on our continuing coverage of the Texas Book Festival (Nov. 14-17 at the state Capitol) and the Jewish Book Fair (through Nov. 18 at the Jewish Community Association of Austin), which can be found in these pages through next week’s issue and online forever.
This article appears in November 8 • 2002.