MORE FUN FOR BIBLIOPHILES

Texas Book Festival releases finalized schedule including late night Lit Crawl

By Michael Graupmann

Oct 3rd, 2012 at 10:48 AM

The Texas Book Festival explodes around the Texas State Capitol in three weeks, but it's not too early to start planning out your two days of bibliophilic fun. Texas ...

LITERARY HEROES

Young adult fiction, please, and hold the bullshit: A conversation with Libba Bray

By Amy Gentry

Sep 24th, 2012 at 4:30 PM

“She’s pretty unapologetic. And you know that if you ever got stuck somewhere, she would have the gin.” That’s young adult novelist Libba Bray describing the protagonist of ...

INPRINT READING SERIES

How Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz plays with his readers — & ended up in Vogue

By Tarra Gaines

Sep 24th, 2012 at 10:18 AM

Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Junot Díaz likes to play games with his readers. "Not games of manipulation," he assured CultureMap during a phone conversation in anticipation of his current ...

Junkyard Beauty: W. Joe Hoppe's new book Diamond Plate has working class roots

By Amy Gentry

Sep 19th, 2012 at 3:45 PM

“I want to speak to people who haven't been spoken to, or spoken for,” says Austin poet W. Joe Hoppe. For Hoppe, that means the poems in his newly ...

FESTIVAL FRENZY

Texas Book Festival announces impressive 2012 lineup including Jewel, Danza and Danielewski

By Amy Gentry

Sep 12th, 2012 at 3:39 PM

Book festivals make for strange bedfellows, as a perusal of the newly released author line-up for the 2012 Texas Book Festival reveals. For some of us, the thought of Naomi ...