Postscripts
Upcoming literary events in Austin.
By Clay Smith, Fri., May 25, 2001
Mixed Notes
Stephen Bruton, the Tejana Dames, and poet Iréne Silva, among others, will help raúlrsalinas celebrate his new spoken word CD Los Many Mundos de raúlrsalinas: un poetic jazz viaje con friends at the Continental Club on Saturday, May 26, 7-9pm. Free… Texas Monthly Editor Evan Smith and TM writers Gary Cartwright, Skip Hollandsworth, and Mimi Swartz will be at BookPeople on Tuesday, May 29, at 7pm, to read from Texas Crime Chronicles: Outrageous True Stories of Murder and Mayhem in the Lone Star State… Dallas dramaturges Ann Taylor and Greg Romero, the forces behind rm 120 theatre, a collective of artists "dedicated to the development of dynamic and provocative new works," according to their mission statement, will be at BookPeople on Thursday, May 31, at 7pm, with playwright Michael Kranes to present his new play, Sunset Bar, in which "a 'super-realist' abandons his art career to paint sunsets. A manager escapes from his restaurant in Queens. Both arrive at the Las Brisas Resort in Acapulco for a spiritual journey with a colorful cast of characters including a mermaid, zombie filmmaker George Romero, actor Mickey Rourke, and a bartender who whips up mean truth-telling margaritas at the Sunset Bar."… The Austin Public Library and the Writers' League of Texas are collaborating on a Summer Creative Writing Camp for people between the ages of seven and 14 in 10 library branches across town. Children's author Jane Scoggins Bauld will teach eight to 12-year-olds about writing stories at Milwood. Lisa Farwell, the author of Haunted Texas Vacations: The Complete Ghostly Guide, will teach children how to write about ghosts and ghost hunting at the Oak Springs branch. Poet Shia Shabazz Barnett will teach poetry and performance at the Carver Library, and Linda Davis Kyle will teach short stories at Windsor Village. Each workshop will meet three separate days for 90 minutes. For a complete list of classes call 499-7599 or your library branch. Free, but pre-registration is required and classes are expected to fill up… Ronald Davis, the author of Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne and Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream, will be at the Barnes & Noble Round Rock store (I-35 & 1325) on Saturday, May 26, at 2pm… The Dobie Paisano Fellowship Project has announced the two winners of the writing fellowships for 2001-2002 (winners spend six months at Texas historian and folklorist J. Frank Dobie's 265-acre ranch west of Austin). Patricia Page (Hope's Cadillac: A Novel), who attended the University of Houston's creative writing program, will work on her third novel, which is set in Oaxaca. And Mylene Dressler, who has lived in Houston since 1989, and whose second novel, The Deadwood Beetle, will be published by BlueHen, the new literary imprint of Putnam, in September, will work on her third novel, which is a "contemporary tragedy set in a small, fictional town along a great southern river."
Inside Books Project
Austin's Inside Books Project, a nonprofit that distributes books free of charge directly to Texas prisoners, needs donations of books, time, and money. Prisoners write to Inside Books, requesting specific titles or genres and Inside Books sends them what they want. But there's always a backlog of requests to fill; here's how to help: drop off books, preferably paperback, at 12th Street Books (827 W. 12th) between 10am and 6pm, Monday through Saturday. Especially needed are dictionaries (the most requested items). Or call 647-4803 for more information.
