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What Chronicle Music Writers Are Reading This Summer
Recent musical reads on Lucinda Williams, Sinéad O’Connor, and more
Books Issue 2023
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Owen Egerton, Austin’s Man of Letters, Leaves the Community He Loves
An increasingly unwelcoming Texas leads to a big goodbye
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Down This Mean Sixth Street in Austin Noir
Akashic Books brings its crime-fiction anthology series to bloody up our changing metropolis
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Keshara Moore Wants You to Join The Obsidian Society
Austin author’s debut pits Black and queer characters against the apocalypse
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UT Law Professor Illuminates the Dangers of The Shadow Docket
Stephen Vladeck’s new book reveals how SCOTUS is secretly undermining the republic
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A Young Man’s Guide to Abortion Rights in The Fight for Midnight
Former Chronicle writer Dan Solomon switches from journalist to novelist for his YA debut
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Texas GOP’s Book Bans Are the First Step in Anti-Public Education Crusade
Banning books (for Jesus!)
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Choreographer Alison Orr’s New Book Dances Across the Page
Dance Works recounts 23 years of Forklift Danceworks as a force for community change
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Elise Hu Unpacks the K-Beauty Industry in Her New Book, Flawless
The former KVUE reporter and NPR bureau chief explores how algorithms are shaping South Korean society
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Still Austin Whiskey Co-Founder Explores a Spirited History in New Book
Colonialism, distilleries, potations, and probity
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Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay Explore Meat and Fire in New Cookbook
Where there’s smoke, there’s Franklin
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Horror Writer and Folk Musician Carter St Hogan Finds Relief in Discomfort
“Everything is so much grosser than anyone talks about”