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Eric Schlosser, the man who makes McDonald's executives double over in agony, will be at BookPeople on Monday, February 25 at 7pm to talk about his book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (HarperCollins, $13.95), which is new in paperback... The Michener Center and the HRC are bringing Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively to Austin to give a reading on Thursday, February 28, at 7:30pm in the Avaya Auditorium of the A.C.E.S. building on the UT campus at the southeast corner of Speedway & 24th. (Parking is available in UT parking garage No. 1 at 24th & San Jacinto, approximately two blocks east of the auditorium.) Lively's novel Moon Tiger won the Booker, her novels According to Mark and The Road to Lichfield were shortlisted for the Booker, and she's the author of some 30 children's books, including A Stitch in Time. She'll read from her latest, a memoir titled A House Unlocked, which was published in the UK last year and will be released in the U.S. in April.