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Edward Carey’s Portrait of Madame Tussaud in Little
The Austin author both writes about and illustrates the grand, strange life of the waxworks queen
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Book Reviews
Walter Mosley fans will want to pick up his latest Easy Rawlins mystery, ‘Cinnamon Kiss,’ right away
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Summer Reading
Anyone familiar with the musical output of John Wesley Harding (né Wesley Stace) knows that the artist possesses a sly wit and literary ear that sets him apart from his fellow folk singers
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Book Review
“Casares has been listening,” Roger Gathman writes of the Brownsville native’s Brownsville: Stories. “His dialogues seem to hang just outside the realm of literature, which is where real writing happens.” The recent Dobie-Paisano fellow will kick off his book tour at BookPeople on Thursday, March 6, at 7pm.
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‘Chasing the Dime’ Reviewed
Harry Bosch is gone, but Michael Connelly introduces us to Henry Pierce in his latest L.A. noir, Chasing the Dime.
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‘Bad Boy Brawly Brown’ Reviewed
Has Walter Mosley’s seventh novel in the Easy Rawlins series lived up to its predecessors? Jesse Sublett lets you know in his review of Bad Boy Brawly Brown.
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Readings
Alice Sebold, who will be at BookPeople on Monday, Aug. 12, has received serious accolades for The Lovely Bones. But Amanda Eyre Ward writes “whether you’re willing to listen to a narrator who is telling her story from heaven will determine how quickly you fall into that story.”
