Postscripts

° UT's Center for Mexican American Studies presents "Pasó por Aquí: An Américo Paredes Symposium," May 3-5. The symposium opens at 7pm on May 3 at the Bass Lecture Hall in the LBJ School with the 15th annual Américo Paredes Distinguished Lecture, "Nation, Nationality, and Nationalism: Américo Paredes' Paradigms of Self and Country" given by María Herrera-Sobek, Luis Leal Professor of Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The symposium is free and open to the public. For more information, call 471-4557 or see www.utexas.edu/depts/cmas.

° The Austin Public Library is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year; the Austin History Center (Ninth & Guadalupe) has a new exhibit titled "Austin Public Library Jubilee: 75 Years of Building Community" that opens on Friday, May 4, 6:30-8:30pm with a reception that is open and free to the public. On display until Nov. 18.

° On Saturday, May 5, noon-2pm, authors Arlene Gause-Jackson, Evelyn Palfrey, and Darryl Wimberley participate in a panel discussion titled "Black, Blue, and Thrilled" at Mitchie's Fine Black Art & Gift Gallery (5706 Manor Rd.). 323-6901.

° Also on Saturday, May 5, 1-3pm, Lynda S. Robinson, Steven Saylor, Carol Thurston, and Thomas Harlan will be at Adventures in Crime & Space (609-A W. Sixth) to talk about "Murder B.C." 473-2665.

° Saturday, May 5, 3-5pm, also at Adventures in Crime & Space, is another panel discussion, "The Last Resort: Crime in Exotic Places," with Russ Hall and Tom Zigal.

° And then acclaimed author Ben Bova will be at Adventures in Crime & Space to read from and sign the latest in his planetary science fiction series, Jupiter. He'll be there 5-7pm on May 5.

°In 1999, Susie Kelly Flatau wrote a book called Counter Culture Texas in which she traveled the state documenting old neighborhood pharmacies. She'll be at Tarrytown Pharmacy (2425-D Exposition) on May 5, noon-2pm. 478-6419.

° Rena Pederson, editorial page editor and vice-president of The Dallas Morning News, will be at Barnes & Noble Westlake (701 Capital of Texas Hwy. S.) on May 5 at 2pm to discuss and sign her book What's Next?: Women Redefining Their Dreams in the Prime of Life. 328-3155.

° At 1pm on Sunday, May 6, at the Old Blanco County Courthouse on Highway 281 in Blanco, six-time Western Spur Award winner and Texas Writers Month poster figure Elmer Kelton will sign copies of his new book Badger Boy, the sequel to Buckskin Line, and will give a talk. 830/833-5252.

° The following evening, on May 7, BookPeople is throwing a party for Elmer Kelton at 7pm. Austin's band of writers, Who Do, led by Lawrence Wright, is going to perform, and Kelton will be making his debut as a singer at the party. Free and open to the public. 472-5050.

° James Hynes, Austin author of the fiendishly clever academic satires The Lecturer's Tale and Publish and Perish, will be at BookPeople on Tuesday, May 8, at 7pm.

° Nashville author Tony Earley, whose Jim the Boy was a rave success last year, will be at BookPeople on Wednesday, May 9, at 7pm, promoting the paperback of Jim the Boy and his new memoir from Algonquin, Somehow Form a Family.