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Five Gifts of Literary Delight for You or Anyone Lucky Enough to Be Your Friends or Family

You want to read books that enrich your life? That make you think, make you laugh, maybe make you cry or rage on behalf of the characters and situations therein? Here are five recent and compelling works of wordcraft to fulfill that desire, to make you glad that everything storywise is not about what’s hot on Netflix or HBO or whatever right now.

10:00AM Mon. Nov. 28, 2022, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

SXSW Announces First 2023 Speakers

Start putting your 2023 calendar together: SXSW has just announced the first speakers for its 37th annual conference, running March 10-19.

11:00AM Tue. Aug. 30, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fox Announces Bloom County Animated Series

Time to get out of the dandelion patch: FOX has announced it's developing a new animated adaptation of Bloom County, the Pulitzer-winning cartoon strip by UT alum Berkeley Breathed, from the animation studio behind Bob's Burgers.

7:00AM Fri. Feb. 18, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

I Want More (Jim Eno & Public Hi-Fi tribute) benefiting Project Traction

Antone's Nightclub

SAGE Studio: Be Kind Rewind at SAGE Studio

Legend of the Stardust Brothers at Hotel Vegas

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

DC Features Daniel Johnston’s Artwork on Upcoming Batman Comic

Following last months’ unveiling of a tribute mural on West Seventh Street, DC Comics offers its own celebration of the late Austin artist Daniel Johnston.

1:15PM Mon. Feb. 14, 2022, Rachel Rascoe Read More | Comment »

RIP Willie Siros, 1952-2022

Austin's genre fiction community will walk into the future a little slower today, as it has been announced that Willie Siros, bookseller and convention pioneer, died Jan. 5 at the age of 69.

4:30PM Fri. Jan. 7, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Gastro Obscura Reveals a World of Food-based Weirdness

The world – not just Austin, you old hippies, but the world – has always been weirder than we think. Which is why the website Atlas Obscura is such a compelling place to visit and browse: It shows us stuff about this planet and its inhabitants that can boggle any mind.

12:34PM Tue. Oct. 12, 2021, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

The Texas Book Festival Unveils Its List of Participating Authors

The Texas Book Festival, one of the largest literary festivals in the country, announced its lineup of more than 200 authors. The fest returns to Austin with a mix of virtual and in-person events over nine days starting on October 23 and is, as always, free and open to the public.

9:00AM Wed. Sep. 22, 2021, Adrienne Hunter Read More | Comment »

Texas Book Festival Scales Back In-Person Programming

The Texas Book Festival had already planned for a hybrid festival this year, offering both in-person and virtual programming. But amid concerns over the Delta variant’s continued prevalence in Austin, TBF has announced in-person events will be scaled back dramatically.

10:14AM Mon. Sep. 13, 2021, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Texas Book Festival 2021: First Authors Announced

As you mop July's sweat off your brow, October may feel like a lifetime away. But the Texas Book Festival has just helped shorten that time span by revealing the first authors for 2021, a stellar group that includes Colson Whitehead, Elizabeth McCracken, Amor Towles, Sandra Cisneros, and Gabriela Garcia.

10:00AM Wed. Jul. 21, 2021, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

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