Author provides tour of tiny Texas jails
Long-awaited new novel from Elizabeth McCracken
LITERARY FICTION Elizabeth McCracken Bowlaway: A Novel Ecco Hardcover, 978-0-0628-6285-3 (also available as an e-book and an audiobook), 384…
Houston judge rules in favor of Drag Queen Story Hour
Houston—Inside the library, the storytellers sang songs and mimicked the noises of crickets and rainfall while reading The Armadillo’s Dream, a picture book…
Colleyville-based poet Tarfia Faizullah awarded major artist grant
CHICAGO—The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists (USA) announced its 2019 USA Fellows last week. Among the forty-five artists and collectives, working across disciplines, is Tarfia Faizullah,…
Texas Institute of Letters announces new members
The seventeen newly elected members of the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL) are: three-time-Oscar-nominated screenwriter-director Wes Anderson (Houston); playwright and…
Photography book will make you hungry for BBQ
If you think Texas BBQ: Small Town to Downtown (University of Texas Press, $39.95 hardcover) is a book of barbecue…
Lilly Gonzalez is new executive director of San Antonio Book Festival
San Antonio—The San Antonio Book Festival announced Monday, January 21, that Lilly Gonzalez will serve as the organization’s new executive…