Fran Vick is well-known in literary circles as president of the Texas State Historical Association and the former president of the Texas Institute of Letters. And now, she's known as the editor behind Literary Dallas, which is reviewed today in...
The Texas contingent fared well at the National Book Awards tonight, with awards going to both Annette Gordon-Reed and Mark Doty. Here's the full report from The Associated Press: NEW YORK -- Judges for the National Book Awards honored a...
Here's what you'll find this week in Guide Sunday and on GuideLive.com: Delta Blues, a musical history lesson from Plano's Ted Gioia. A Mercy, Toni Morrison's latest novel. Means of Transit, a memoir by Oklahoma's Teresa Miller. Nov. 22, 1963,...
The Dallas literati were out in force last night to help launch one of the biggest local books of the year: Literary Dallas, from TCU Press. How big? Well, at 493 pages, it's a hundred pages over budget, I am...
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life is one of the biggest biographies of the season, and it has a Texas tie: Author Alice Schroeder is a Highland Park High alum. She speaks extensively with columnist Cheryl Hall...
I mentioned that Texas was well-represented among the National Book Award finalists. There's one more proud Texan to put on that list. Annette Gordon-Reed, who is nominated for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, writes to say: "I grew...
Texas is well-represented among the National Book Award nominees. According to the official biographies, Mark Doty (poetry) is a professor in the graduate program at the University of Houston; Reginald Gibbons (also poetry) is a Texas native (honored repeatedly by...
Here's an excerpt of Alive in Necropolis, by Doug Dorst. It's reviewed today in the books pages of GuideLive....
Unbridled Books says it has sold the film rights for Andrea Portes' "Hick." The buyers are producers Christian Taylor of Taylor Lane Productions and Steven Siebert of Lighthouse Entertainment. Though she has since departed our fair city, Ms. Portes wrote...
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