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Texas Book Festival 2015:
Texas Book Festival 2015:
The Train to Crystal City
Jan Jarboe Russell’s saga of World War II internment in Texas reviewed
Texas Book Festival 2015
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Texas Book Festival 2015: The Book of Aron
Jim Shepard’s child’s-eye view of the Warsaw Ghetto reviewed
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The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood creates a grim dystopian landscape and a luckless couple to stumble across it
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A House of My Own: Stories From My Life
In this collection of essays, letters, lectures, and more, Sandra Cisneros opens wide the doors to the house of her life
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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015: The Best Stories of the Year
Editor Laura Furman has pulled together 20 stories spanning cultures and time and rich in emotion
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All the Houses
Austin novelist Karen Olsson mines the world of Washington, D.C., in the Eighties to explores memory, loss, and desire
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The Double Life of Liliane
This odd, beautiful book from Lily Tuck is part memoir, part novel, part poetry, part historical quilt
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Betty Boyd Caroli on Lady Bird and Lyndon
In her new biography of Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Boyd Caroli gives us the First Lady’s side of the story
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Wendell Pierce’s The Wind in the Reeds
In this memoir by the actor, Godot and Treme help transform post-Katrina New Orleans
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Texas Book Festival Reviews
Asleep at the Wheel bandleader Ray Benson describes his long, strange, Western Swing trip
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Texas Book Festival Reviews
One of the deans of music criticism details his backstory
