Postscripts

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Upcoming

Andrew Vachss will be at BookPeople on Monday, Oct. 9, at 7pm, to read from and sign the latest in the Burke series, Dead and Gone. He'll also be on John Aielli's Eklektikos (KUT 90.5FM) at 1pm that same day... Dr. Janis Stout, dean of faculties at Texas A&M and author of the bio Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times, will read from and sign that book at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center in Kyle on Monday, Oct. 9, at 6:30. For directions to the KAP Center, see www.English.swt.edu/kap/contactpage5.html. Parking is available at the Kyle Elementary School and at the library, located two short blocks from the house... Poet and author Adrienne Rich is coming to Austin on Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 7:30pm; she'll be at the LBJ Auditorium on the UT campus. Parking is available in the LBJ Library parking lot on Red River, and the event is free and open to the public. And what would an appearance by her be without news of a recent tiff? This time it has to do with the National Book Foundation, which is producing an anthology of essays titled The Book That Changed My Life. Random House is publishing it pro bono and Borders is promoting it, and Rich, who was asked by NBF executive director Neil Baldwin to contribute to the anthology, refused, citing her distrust of "a particularly intricate and disingenuous connection between Borders' harassment of the independent bookselling community and its self-promotion via the National Book Foundation." To view her letters to Baldwin, see www.capitolabookcafe.com/adriennerich1.html and www.capitolabookcafe.com/adriennerich2.html... Jim Hightower will be at Barnes & Noble Guadalupe on Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 7pm, to read from and sign If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates... On Thursday, Oct. 12, at 7pm, Abigail De Witt, who has written a new novel, Lili, tracking the interior life of a Frenchwoman against the backdrop of 20th-century Europe, will be at Book Woman... And tonight, Thursday, Oct. 5, Jan Reid will be at Barnes & Noble Arboretum at 7:30pm to read from and sign Close Calls: Jan Reid's Texas, and Joe Lansdale will be at BookPeople at 7pm with his two new books, The Bottoms: A Novel and High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale. Travel writer Wayne Bernhardson will be at Travelfest (1214 W. Sixth) on Friday, Oct. 6, from 6-8pm. He's the author of the Lonely Planet guide to Chile & Easter Island and will be presenting a slide presentation for people interested in traveling to those places... Booklovers may want to register to attend the HRC's "Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium 2000: The Infinite Library: Old Worlds and New: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections in the 21st Century," which takes place November 3-4 on the UT campus. The symposium, a biennial event, honors Cowles and her brief but legendary tenure as editor of Flair magazine. Up for discussion this year is, obviously, the state of the library in the 21st century, but authors Diane Johnson (Le Mariage, Le Divorce), James Salter, and playwright Arnold Wesker will be in attendance as well. For registration information, call 471-8944 or access flair2000.hrc.utexas.edu.