Postscripts

A new Texas publisher intends on becoming the largest for-profit publisher in Texas.

"...Several weeks ago, a trade and academic publisher, the Rowman & Littlefield Group in Lanham, Md.,..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Dying in Committee, Part 7

Don't ask why some bills pass and some don't. The answer will make your head spin.

"...the House Higher Education Committee heard damning testimony about academic textbook publishers. Representatives heard that the textbook trade in..."

May 11, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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Austin Stories

"...sister operation in Minneapolis, has been sued by five academic publishers for copyright infringement. As generations of UT students..."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SBOE: No Scholars Need Apply

SBOE members nominated several unqualified panelists to a social studies textbook review committee.

"...Texas Freedom Network, instead of degreed historians and other academic scholars, SBOE members nominated several unqualified panelists to a..."

July 25, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Crossing the Lines

Women Comic Strippers

"...in the comics scene, as well as in feminist academic circles. It also made waves: "A fellow [male] artist..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

Cuneiform Press: Strong, Silent Type

Making books more deep in the heart of Texas

"...sheer numbers of their creations, maybe they’re calling themselves micro­publishers. And they’re micro because they’re not major, because they’re..."

May 1, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Direct Hit

Why are Tupperware-style home parties where children’s books are sold putting booksellers on the defensive?

"...company, Dorling Kindersley (DK), as well as several other publishers who have instituted direct sales to consumers, are putting..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postmarks

Balcones Responds

"...of the new nature of corporate ownership of today's publishers. It's old news but very pertinent to Pallmeyer's thesis..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Column

The Luv Doc: A Very Uninteresting Robot

What doesn't take two thumbs, both eyes, and the lives of innocents?

"...I have a friend who calls me occasionally –..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Howl

Howl is a must-see for Beat freaks and poetry geeks but might not be an enriching experience for newcomers to the work of Allen Ginsberg.

"...publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. The film depicts the trial, with opposing lawyers played..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Michelle Tea Brings Her Latest Book to UT

Iconic queer memoirist reflects on her past and future writing career

"...from college, correct? [But] you often end up in academic environments. Does that ever feel weird or alienating to..."

Oct. 24, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

News Roundup: Textbooks, Buehler, and More

Your Monday morning news update

"...While several errors remain in Texas’ troubled history textbooks, publishers have taken steps to rid the books of (at..."

Oct. 27, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

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Watchdog group questions whether a public-school Bible course is purely academic

"...curriculum, The Bible in History and Literature, which its publishers claim is in use by 52 Texas school districts..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Food for Thought

Ken Rubin, Culinary Scholar

"...innards and put them into a plastic tub." An academic named Paul Stoller had an idea that there could..."

April 27, 2001 Food Feature by Clay Smith

SBOE Passes Mexican-American Studies, but Whitewashes the Name

Right-wing board member objects to “hyphenated Americanism”

"...create the course on their own and allowed textbook publishers to submit books. But by putting the cart before..."

April 13, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma

Panel Finds 'Serious Flaws' in SBOE-Backed Social Studies Textbooks

Independent reviewers find more than a dozen factual distortions

"...State Board of Education in 2010, had put textbooks publishers in a tough spot – either follow the ideological..."

Sept. 10, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

The Mentality of Politics as War

Scott McClellan on his time in the Bush Administration

"...2006, early 2007, and I started meeting with some publishers. I didn't start writing until probably July 2007. I..."

June 20, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

True Crime?

Why is the Austin American-Statesman in touch with the lawyers for Holtzbrinck Publishers Holdings and its subsidiary Holt, publisher of the critically acclaimed A Death in Texas?

"...Editor Fred Zipp and correspondence between him and Holtzbrinck Publishers Holdings LLC -- Holt's German-based umbrella with offices in..."

June 28, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

In the Slipstream: An FC2 Reader

"...authors like Joseph McElroy and Rikki Ducornet whose first publishers have allowed their books to go out of print...."

Oct. 15, 1999 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Words Are Bonds

Worlds intersect at the 17th annual Austin International Poetry Festival

"...a nice contrast to the typical cadences of an academic poetry reading – Young's turns of phrase verge on..."

April 17, 2009 Books Feature by Michael Agresta

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"...with high hopes in March of 2006 by the publishers of Tribeza magazine, has officially ceased publication. Published bimonthly,..."

April 6, 2007 News Feature

News/Print

Everything is illuminated extremely loud and incredibly close

"...• Publishers Weekly has named BookPeople the 2005 National Bookseller of..."

April 1, 2005 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...image of blacks in film had been my principal academic interest in the doctoral program in the Radio-TV-Film Department..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Jazz's Generational Divide

The IAJE vision of jazz's future.

"...room was maybe a quarter full of well-dressed, gray-haired academic types, taking notes and listening studiously to a petite,..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Books of a Lifetime

Dawn Powell: A Biography

"...recommended that her diaries be published. For 30 years, publishers, critics, and students had asked the estate for access..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Books Feature

As Queer As It Gets

Christian McLaughlin, the Balzac of Melrose Place

"...of the "bad" - the "B" - is serious academic business. At least two established gay authors are able..."

June 12, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...bullet wound. Libel laws did not constrain these frontier publishers, but then again, courts seldom convicted anyone for shooting..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

A New Chapter for Austin’s Small Bookstores

From serving neighborhoods to serving wine, how innovative local booksellers are filling the shelves

"...violet crown like a colossus – when writers and publishers think about where to send their authors on book..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Willie Nelson to Deliver SXSW Online Conference Keynote

Shotgun Willie brings a few hundred friends to the virtual stage

"...Cannabis rights activist Steve DeAngelo • Entrepreneur, author and academic Joost van Dreunen • Co-founder and CEO of Relativity..."

Jan. 13, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...translations and commentary in Latin, the standard language of academics of the time. In addition to being a landmark..."

May 2, 2008 News Feature

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