Susanna Kaysen Lays It on the Line [10-19-01]
BY MARION WINIK
The Camera My Mother Gave Me, by Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen, is a memoir that has nothing to do with either the author's camera or her mother, Marion Winik writes. It is about her vagina. It is the chronicle of a mysterious and intractable medical problem she had with this little-discussed part of the body, and of the interesting experiences she endured in what I think of as Patient-World, the alternate reality inhabited by those of us who have something wrong with our bodies.

The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results [10-19-01]

• Winners
• Judges
• First Place Winner: Valium
• Second Place: November
• Third Place: The Warmth of Snow
• Fourth Place: Lies
• Fifth Place: Thirsty Dog: A Prague Story

Postscripts [10-19-01]
BY CLAY SMITH
Books editor Clay Smith surveys what the September 11 attacks have done to several local bookstores' sales.

Unchained Melody [10-12-01]
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
"I guess I started with this high idea -- 'Yeah, social criticism!'" says Austinite Alexander Parsons about his first novel Leaving Disneyland. "And then I realized more and more that the story was about a guy and that I should stick with that."

Sentimental Education [10-12-01]
BY ROGER GATHMAN

Full Exposure: Lily Burana's "Strip City' [09-28-01]
BY AMANDA EYRE WARD
From Anchorage, Alaska, to New Jersey to Tijuana, Mexico, Lily Burana takes her readers inside the glitziest and seediest strip clubs in the nation in Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America. But Burana, who will be at BookPeople on Monday, October 1, at 7pm, is also armed with a good deal of feminist theory, research, and unflinching opinions about the sex-worker trade.

Arthur the Absurdist [09-21-01]
BY CLAY SMITH