Texas Book Festival 2017: Samantha Irby

Meet the author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life in real life

"...to happen for us Austinites. At this year’s Texas Book Festival, the hilarious and unapologetically candid writer will offer..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Post by Beth Sullivan

Book Review: How We Fight for Our Lives

Saeed Jones' memoir resonates most when it digs the deepest

"...You can’t judge a book by its cover, but perhaps the title is a..."

Oct. 22, 2019 Arts Post by Laura Jones

New Street Craft Book Features Local Yarnbomber Magda Sayeg

We’d recommend it anyway, because it’s just that good

"...Thames & Hudson make a fine habit of producing books – well-researched, beautifully designed books – about art and..."

March 3, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica

This hefty tome is an unparalleled resource, but it's not for everyone

"...Austin connections in its pages to justify a heartfelt recommendation. Editor Michael Carrasco, an assistant professor of pre-Columbian art,..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Interview With the Vampire

Tom Cruise as Anne Rice's evil Lestat.

"...set against each other as the centuries pass. Rice's book positively dripped spirituality, decadent homoeroticism, and heady atmosphere, and..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Everybody Has a Secret Life in the Movies

Authors Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree eloquently show us how.

"...about something that's part of this weekend's many-splendored Texas Book Festival...."

Oct. 23, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Authors Who Need Authors

Authors who need authors are the luckiest authors: We assess the harmonies and tumults at the 2002 Texas Book Festival.

"...Jimmy Santiago Baca on Saturday morning at the Texas Book Festival, but his was hardly the only storm system...."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

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Our readers talk back.

"...A Book Recommendation..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column

Bedside Manner

Strip mall apocalypse

"...Other than perusing book stores and occasionally the semi-annual Austin Record Convention, shopping..."

March 5, 2012 Books Post by Jay Trachtenberg

Gay Place

Know what queers know!

"...co-worker on their heterosexism who then asked for a book recommendation to learn more about genderqueer people. Gentry says:..."

June 29, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Lee Elementary Still Lee Elementary

Campus renaming debate still rumbles on the AISD board

"...Time to update your address book: Robert E. Lee Elementary is now Russell Lee Elementary,..."

May 26, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

A Consent Decree for APD?

Civil rights activists say it's needed

"...year after the U.S. Department of Justice closed it's book on a complaint about excessive force and other issues..."

June 27, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Evolution: Hanging On by Its Fingernails

Fundamentalists on the State Board of Education (barely) lose their fight against science

"...intelligent design (aka creationism). The fight centered around the recommendation of scientific and education professionals to remove a requirement..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Let's Go Gun Crazy

UT working group recommends allowing guns in classrooms, while a "mock mass shooting" and a "mass farting" protest in response bring out the national media

"...2pm, the Life and Liberty Walk posted on their Facebook page: "Live demonstration at the corner of Whitis and..."

Dec. 18, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Bedside Manner: Treehouse Tomes

Up in the air with Klosterman, Murakami, and more

"...I get to enjoy the two massive windows that bookend my apartment and all of the natural light that..."

Jan. 3, 2011 Books Post by Monica Riese

Postmarks

Warning: blatant use of music knowledge within

"...development in the board summary. "F" was a final recommendation; "P" meant a pending recommendation -- from the underwriting..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column

Closing the Books

A UT editor says he lost his job at the Center for Mexican American Studies for complaining about administrative malfeasance.

"...as the editor of the CMAS publishing unit, CMAS Books. By all accounts, Guerra is a fastidious and meticulous..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Tom Cruise isn't having any fun in this boilerplate actioner

"...Back, the second movie adaptation drawn from Lee Child’s 20-book series starring Reacher, he’s tasked with clearing the name..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dangerous Men

Instant midnight classic marries inspiration with sub-par technique

"...practice in which the filmmakers or distributors pay to book their movie into a theatre for a designated length..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eating Between the Lines

Books for Cooks

"...This little pocket-sized book is a treasure trove of wine info. Johnson discusses..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Southwest Texas State University

"...and is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, says that a student contemplating an..."

April 21, 2000 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

2 Kool 2 Be 4gotten

"...Juke Joint: They'll never know how beautiful they are,..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Some Things Demand an Answer

And never mind trying to blame the Louse

"...day, "why haven't you reviewed that enormous Anders Nilsen book that came out from Drawn & Quarterly last year?..."

June 6, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Life Again in Oz

On the 20th anniversary of the premiere of her play Ozma of Oz, Suzan Zeder revisits Frank Baum's enchanted land to turn the show into a musical and finds a part of herself there.

"...Ozma of Oz, an adaptation of the Frank Baum book. "Twice a day, for 20 years, I thought through..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Five Things to Stuff Your Literary Stocking

Supercharge your personal, locally sourced library

"...Your bookshelves (and even your coffee table) deserve what's brilliant and..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Bedside Manner: Sharing Shelf Space

My parents' Kindle library and me

"...self-righteous, swoony monologues about the tactile superiority of bound books), I’ve become a convert to e-reading. And I hit..."

June 22, 2016 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: Midnight Library

The more books there are, the less reading there is

"...Since my bed has built-in bookshelves along either side, I have a mini-library of nighttime..."

Nov. 29, 2010 Books Post by Nora Ankrum

Christie's World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine

"...Wine Appreciation Guild Books, 336 pp., $50..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Holy Smoke!

The Barbecue! Bible

"...Steven Reichlen's newest cookbook, The Barbecue! Bible, is a godsend to the global..."

June 25, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

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Our readers talk back.

"...Jack over the review of the John Wesley Hardin book. Michael Ventura was indeed wrong about Jack being racist,..."

June 23, 2006 Column

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