Postscripts
Coming Up
By Clay Smith, Fri., Oct. 16, 1998
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An inordinately bounteous crop of photography books about Texas have come out lately: Photographer Wyman Meinzer will present a slide presentation and discuss his new book Texas Sky, from UT Press, on Friday, October 16, 7pm, at Barnes & Noble Westlake, which has quickly become the locale for regional photographers to do booksignings and presentations of their works. Texas A&M Press has just released Land of the Desert Sun: Texas' Big Bend Country, with photographs and text by D. Gentry Steele, a physical anthropologist at A&M who writes in the preface of his book that he actually prefers working with a large-format camera, one that requires a heavy tripod. "It creates in me a way of seeing and feeling that smaller, more portable photographic equipment cannot seem to bring out in me."...
SWT is bringing Leslie Marmon Silko to the Teaching Theatre at the Alkek Library on Wednesday, October 21 at 7pm. This is a rare opportunity to hear her read from her upcoming novel Gardens in the Dunes, which will be published in spring 1999. For directions to the event or for more information, call 245-2163. The Michener Center brings Booker Prize-winning author James Kelman to the fourth floor auditorium of the HRC on Thursday, October 22, 7:30pm. Kelman's books include the novels The Busconductor Hines, A Disaffection, and the 1994 Booker Prize-winning How Late It Was, How Late. Call 471-1601 for more information...
Austin author David M. Wilkinson will read from his latest, The Empty Quarter, at Borders on Saturday, October 17, 3pm...
El Paso's Cinco Puntos Press is sending journalist and author John Ross on a "Fact and Fiction Tour" across Texas with his new book Tonatiuh's People: A Novel of Mexican Cataclysm. On Friday, October 23, 8pm, he'll read from Tonatiuh's People at FringeWare and the next morning, from 9am-noon, he'll give a workshop at the Austin Writers' League titled "Turning Fact Into Fiction."...
Dan Jenkins reads from Rude Behavior at Book People Monday, October 19, 7pm. Book People wants you to arrive early for the store's "very own version of Monday Night Football."...
Mary Willis Walker will be the speaker at the UT Austin's Friends of the University Libraries annual dinner, Thursday, October 29, 6:30pm, at the UT Faculty Center. Call 495-4350 for tickets.
