Roger Gathman
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The Rebirth of Venus
Greg Curtis’ ‘Disarmed’ gets the elusive skinny on the sculpture whose stomach is ‘Immense Like the Sea’
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Readings
Louis Begley recently wrote a glowing preface to a reissue of The Other House, James’ least known novel. Begley is one of the few fans of the book, and writes that “James makes manifest in this very remarkable novel the overpowering force and ignominy of the sexual drive.” Obviously Begley is after something like that here. But if this was the inspiration, it was not a fortunate one.
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Cinematexas Games Without Borders
An interview with Cinematexas “Games Without Borders” keynote speaker, Mark Dery
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The Correspondence
Austin writer Jim Lewis on how things came together in his new novel, and on his current assignment in the Congo
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Summer Reading 2003
Summer Reading 2003: Augusten Burroughs’ follow-up memoir to his bestselling Running With Scissors
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Book Review
“Casares has been listening,” Roger Gathman writes of the Brownsville native’s Brownsville: Stories. “His dialogues seem to hang just outside the realm of literature, which is where real writing happens.” The recent Dobie-Paisano fellow will kick off his book tour at BookPeople on Thursday, March 6, at 7pm.
