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BY ROBERT FAIRES
Comics legend Joe Kubert talks about his life as it was and as it might have been
The 2004 Texas Book Festival
BY ROGER GATHMAN
Michael Simon's first detective novel finds a transplanted New Yorker struggling to solve a murder in a 'completely different' Austin
BY STEVE MOORE
John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
An interview with Rachel Simmons
BY CINDY WIDNER
Bett Williams navigates contemporary culture with a wicked pen and a wrestling mat, and she'll be at BookPeople on Friday.
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BY SHAWN BADGLEY
An interview DBC Pierre and Dan Rhodes on tour, together
BY ROGER GATHMAN
Greg Curtis' Disarmed gets the elusive skinny on the sculpture whose stomach is "immense like the sea."
BY SARAH HEPOLA
JournalCon comes to Austin.
BY KATE CANTRILL
Dao Strom and Elvia Padilla-Medal, front women for All Night Lincoln
BY MICHAEL ERARD
Hermeticism has been marginalized academia since the Enlightenment. Can a UT professor and grad student editing a journal change that?
BY ROGER GATHMAN
Austin writer Jim Lewis on how things came together in his new novel and on his current assignment in the Congo. Roger Gathman relays.
BY MELANIE HAUPT
As libraries struggle with slashed budgets, communities are asked to take up the slack. Melanie Haupt reports.
BY CLAY SMITH
Journalist George Crile believes that "something about Texas and its oil heritage seems to permit its citizens to reinvent their histories and to carry out their lives as if they were part of an ongoing theatrical experience." So, how does this relate to legendary Lufkin Congressman Charlie Wilson, the CIA, and Afghanistan?
BY MICHAEL ERARD
"In Austin, a city of changes, a book like Anthony Orum's Power, Money & the People: The Making of Modern Austin, is always relevant," writes Michael Erard. "It's the only urban history of Austin, tracing the early decisions that fixed the city's economy, politics, and sense of itself. Unfortunately, the book's availability has been spotty -- until late 2002, when an Oregon press, Wipf and Stock, reissued it."
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
The quiet and uncalculated approach of John McManus
BY MICHAEL ERARD
An interview with SWT's Arturo Mancha, whose novel in progress was a recent break-in casualty
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
The Bookslut -- aka Jessa Crispin -- is getting people excited.
BY ROGER GATHMAN
Drug war reporter Charles Bowden is telling El Paso-Juárez's secrets, one murder at a time.
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