Festival & Author News
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Library Grant Application Deadline Extended
The deadline to submit a grant application to the Texas Book Festival for a 2010 Library Grant has been extended from January 11th to January 20th. Any Texas public library is eligible to apply for the grants, which are awarded in three categories: Book grants, Literacy Initiative grants and Technology grants.
Since 1996, the Texas Book Festival has awarded more than $2.3 million to Texas public libraries. Laura Bush, Honorary Chair of the organization, is a former librarian who founded the Texas Book Festival to help support the State's public libraries.
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The Politics of Food on Sunday, Nov. 1st
Our eating decisions are now fraught with the kind of scrutiny and even anxiety that previous generations either ignored or were blissfully unaware of. Not to mention that food is now, more than ever before, a marker of taste (pun intended). Two Festival sessions on Sunday, November 1st about the politics of food - one in the Capitol and the second one in the Cooking Tent - have been scheduled so that festivalgoers can attend both sessions. The Festival is entirely free and open to the public. |
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Imagination Sin Fronteras
When Texans hear about Mexico in the news, it's usually because of drug-related violence or the politics immigration inspires. For novelists, however, Mexico is a more nuanced, subtle place than the one depicted in the mainstream media. We've invited four novelists who have set their 2009 novels in, or at least partly in, Mexico to be in conversation with one another on Sunday, November 1 from 2-3pm in the Senate Chamber about Mexico - as a place, and as a literary setting. |
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Jeanette Walls on Sunday, November 1
Jeanette Walls' new novel Half Broke Horses details the life and times of Walls' grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, a fearless matriarch who was born in a dugout in West Texas in 1901, rode 500 miles alone on horseback to Arizona as a teenager and later sold moonshine to make ends meet during prohibition. "Anyone who devoured Walls’s incandescent 2005 memoir, The Glass Castle, has wondered: How did such untamed characters come to exist in America, in the not-so-distant 1960s and ’70s?" Liesl Schillinger writes in The New York Times. "Half Broke Horses ... gives a partial answer to that perplexing question," Schillinger writes, saying that Half Broke Horses "enrich(es) the common legend of our American past." Walls will talk about her work in the House Chamber from 12:30-1:15pm on Sunday, November 1. |
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