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Rosalind Faires
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Kate Shindle Talks Fun Home
The former Miss America on why she loves starring in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical
Arts Feature, Aug. 10, 2017
The First Austin Bookstore Crawl
This combo self-guided tour and scavenger hunt gives readers a new reason to seek out local lit sellers
Arts Feature, Apr. 27, 2017
My Favorite My Favorite Murder
When comedians Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstack talk homicide, people listen
Arts Feature, Apr. 13, 2017
The Bookstore Cat Is Alive and Well
Sprawled across the book you want to read at Dragon’s Lair
Features Feature, Feb. 9, 2017
Rosalind Faires' Top Reads of 2016
These three novels drew a discreet tear or two with their beautiful, brave, and bittersweet humanity
Arts Feature, Dec. 29, 2016
Who Killed These Girls?
Lowry brings a careful and deeply compassionate approach to her investigation of the Yogurt Shop Murders
Arts Feature, Nov. 3, 2016
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
The novel traces a painting's four-century history through a gallery of characters drawn with fondness and poignancy
Arts Feature, Nov. 3, 2016
Katherine Catmull at the Texas Teen Book Festival
Like a fairy in her YA novel The Radiant Road, Katherine Catmull keeps transforming the mundane into lovely art
Arts Feature, Sep. 29, 2016
2016 Texas Teen Book Festival: The Details
Arts Feature, Sep. 29, 2016
New Harry Potter Prompts BookPeople to Revive the Magic of Release Parties Past
J.K. Rowling's latest brings the gang back together for one last hurrah
Arts Feature, Jul. 28, 2016
Dark Run
Summer reading recommendations that will take you out of this world
Arts Feature, Jun. 16, 2016
Arcadia: A Novel
Iain Pears
Arts Feature, Jun. 16, 2016
To Build a Home
Four Austin writers discuss how they create their fantastic worlds
Arts Feature, Jun. 16, 2016
Minerva Koenig on South of Nowhere
The Austin-based crime fiction writer wanted her mystery series to show how someone becomes a sleuth
Arts Feature, Feb. 25, 2016
The Do-Right
Investigating the latest "persons of interest" in Texas' literary crime scene
Arts Feature, Feb. 25, 2016
Murder, She Read: What Hooked Us on Women of Mystery
Arts Feature, Feb. 25, 2016
GenEnCo's The Mikado: Reclaimed
In this newly devised work, Asian-American artists grapple with the complicated legacy of Gilbert & Sullivan's opera
Arts Feature, Feb. 11, 2016
The Radiant Road
Author Katherine Catmull elegantly summons a fairy-tale timelessness for this YA story of teen anxieties, fairies, and creativity
Arts Review, Jan. 21, 2016
Sherlock Chronicles
A look behind the scenes of the BBC series Sherlock is informative, if not intimate
Arts Feature, Dec. 23, 2015
Gift Guide 2015: Fiction by Austin Authors
A well-researched and swiftly paced historical novel for grown-up girls who dreamed of being knights
Arts Feature, Dec. 10, 2015
Sarah Vowell's Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Everyone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman
Arts Feature, Oct. 29, 2015
C. Denby Swanson's The Norwegians
The Austin playwright's comedy about polite Minnesota hit men finally opens at home after hit runs in NYC and Ohio
Arts Feature, Oct. 22, 2015
The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood creates a grim dystopian landscape and a luckless couple to stumble across it
Arts Feature, Oct. 15, 2015
Betty Boyd Caroli on Lady Bird and Lyndon
In her new biography of Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Boyd Caroli gives us the First Lady's side of the story
Arts Feature, Oct. 15, 2015
Unpacking Serial
Co-creator / reporter Sarah Koenig on how the groundbreaking podcast came to be
Arts Feature, Jul. 30, 2015
A Touch of Stardust
Gable and Lombard and the making of Gone With the Wind as seen through the eyes of an aspiring author
Arts Feature, Jun. 11, 2015
The Academe Is an Actress
Does Shakespeare pass the Bechdel test? and other feminist inquiries
Arts Feature, May. 7, 2015
Well-Behaved? Let's Assume Not.
The origins of America's favorite Amazon are recounted with witty prose and superheroic scholarship
Arts Feature, Nov. 26, 2014
Teens in the Kitchen at Central Market
Forget the gadgets, and gift your teen with Central Market cooking classes
Food Feature, Dec. 5, 2008
Central Market Cooking Classes
Classes for teens ensure no ramen in college
Food Feature, Sep. 5, 2008
'Marathon': Down the jackrabbit hole
Where else to workshop this new musical drama by Jesse Sublett and Darden Smith than the Continental Club?
Arts Feature, Feb. 8, 2008
Big Top Candy Shop
Tis the season for sugar overload
