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Book Ban Bonanza

There's good news and more good news for you during this year's Banned Books Week. For starters, according to the Texas ACLU, there were no book challenges this year in Austin ISD.

10:33AM Mon. Sep. 28, 2009, Jordan Smith Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest: Dr. Ronald Chevalier at BookPeople

Reading is fundamental, sure, but Friday's reading at BookPeople is fundamentally a lie – a really fun lie, we should add. Because when you see Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) at BookPeople on Friday, he'll be in character as the entirely fictitious sci-fi/fantasy novelist Dr. Ronald Chevalier.

1:59PM Wed. Sep. 23, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

ASF Celebrates Its Fall Issue With a Free and Cozy-Sounding Event

The cover of the new American Short Fiction is swathed in a budded tree and autumnal colors – a tease of the season to come. Sure, it's still too soon for sweater weather, but we'd like to think of the ASF's outdoor reading tomorrow night, in celebration of their Fall issue, as unofficial kickoff to the season.

1:45PM Thu. Sep. 17, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Hippo Campus, Hotline TNT

ACL Live at the Moody Theater

Black Auteur Film Festival at AFS Cinema

Dog Day Afternoon
at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Howl, Fantods, Howl.

Here's a wonderful literary event called And But So. (It's called that in homage to, as you know even if you've only skimmed a story in which David Foster Wallace allows his supra-narrator characters to get a word in edgewise, a tic of human speech that the acclaimed and beloved – but now, as of about a year ago, suicided – author captured so well and frequently.)

3:02PM Wed. Sep. 16, 2009, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Talk to the Hand (of God)

God may have said nyet, but the critics sounded yes to Michener graduate James Hannaham's widely praised comic novel, God Says No, which came out this summer from McSweeney's.

1:58PM Tue. Sep. 15, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Texas Book Festival Announces Lineup

Fans of literary fiction rejoice!: The Texas Book Festival announced its lineup today, and there's some awfully big, bold-face names attached, including Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Antonya Nelson, Richard Russo, and Colson Whitehead.

5:01PM Thu. Sep. 3, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Be There, Love Them

We're big fans of the Austin Bat Cave, the West Lynn-based literacy nonprofit that offers tutoring and arts programs for kids. ABC's mission statement is to connect "a diverse population of young writers and learners with a vibrant community of adult volunteers" who are working professionals culled from the local arts and media scene.

3:05PM Wed. Sep. 2, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

News/Print

Horton Foote may be gone, but the Austin Public Library Foundation is making sure he isn't forgotten. The late playwright and screenwriter provides the theme for this year's annual Texas Tales fundraiser, called “A Trip to Bountiful: An Appreciation of Horton Foote.”

2:09PM Wed. Aug. 26, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Calendar Girls

The inked women of Texas libraries come together in the calendar pages of "The Tattooed Ladies of TLA," a 40-page calendar benefiting the TLA Library Disaster Relief Fund, following last year's "Men of Texas Libraries" page-turner, which raised funds for libraries hit by Rita and Katrina. Some of those very special tattooed ladies will be appearing tomorrow (Weds., July 29) at 1:15pm at the Austin Hyatt Regency Hotel (208 Barton Springs Road, second floor) for a special signing session for the calendar, which will be available for purchase for $20. Wanna know more, or see a sneak peek at the pics? Go here.

3:41PM Tue. Jul. 28, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

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