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"...Group. These ensembles included such future notables as Academy Award nominee John Hawkes (then known as John Perkins), Academy..."

"...This weekend The Dark Knight Rises has commandeered the national box office. In Austin, where we generally have 4-8..."

"...the past year, as the bumper crop of pie books this season bears witness. I've spent plenty of time..."

"...of decades have zoomed by, and your casual little awards party has become an institution – lauding exceptional achievements..."

"...vast universe, and that symbolic picture, in which no national boundary lines could be seen, shrank all the world's..."

"...sleep until the 4’o’clock news, everyday; flight home, Hemingway book, alcohol with Holly...."

"...all, we pine for new work from Texas's own national treasure, Joe R. Lansdale, Nacogdoches native and genre-defying literary..."

"...Public Library Friends Foundation announced today its 2012 Mayor’s Book Club pick, Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones...."

"...Southwest Region from the James Beard Foundation, the Uchi Cookbook came out to critical acclaim and massive sales, and..."

"...screenwriter Caroline Thompson, recipient of this year's Distinguished Screenwriter Award, evidence of her cinematic pen strokes are everywhere, all..."

"...National Book Award finalist Nicole Krauss (Man Walks Into a..."

"...Civil Rights Project has won the 2011 Intellectual Freedom Award, given by the National Council of Teachers of English,..."

"...The show was initially inspired by Lynne Rossetto Kasper's award-winning book The Splendid Table, about the foods and customs..."

"...speaker at last year's inaugural CantoMundo, held at the National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, where she outlined..."

"...since 1999. (She just won the 2011 James Beard Award for Best Chef of New York City.) Her story..."

"...do-it-yourself aesthetic, they are supporting the novel with a national tour in a rented Prius. Renzi describes this journey..."

"...like to do that,” and then they may get awarded the bid, but they don’t know what they’re in..."

"...take advantage of the season. With funding from the National Wildlife Federation and help from faculty, volunteers, and Keep..."

"...Military wives and Vietnam vets steer the Mayor's Book Club's dual selections...."

"...Buster Graybill, who created the award-winning 2009 Texas Biennial hit Bait Box, won a grant..."

"...300-plus strikeout seasons, 10 All-Star appearances, 5 Cy Young Awards – including four straight with Arizona: 1999-2002 – two..."

"...colleague and I kicked a conversation around about the book a while back, she accidentally called it America and..."

"...dreamed of building a permanent facility and scored an international coup when UT's Ransom Center gained stewardship of the..."

"...Great House, which was nominated for a National Book Award in October, is a more somber thing...."

"...and fall hard, like Celia in García's debut novel, National Book Award finalist Dreaming in Cuban (1993); charismatic women..."

"...History of the Search for the Northwest Passage, by National Geographic's Adventure Classics Series editor Anthony Brandt (Knopf). Published..."

"...pretension toward the literary – hey, it's in a book! – and the seal of authorization – it's the..."

"...harder to carve out time at home to read books. Even though I read a lot at home, eschewing..."

"...the manuscript for the long-awaited second edition of her book ¡Tequila! Cooking With the Spirit of Mexico, to be..."

"...The culinary aspects of the Texas Book Festival evolve from year to year, with Texas chefs..."