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Community: Inside Books Calls for LGBT Book Donations
Since 1998, the Inside Books Project, a community volunteer organization, has been the only one of its kind in Texas, a books-to-prisoners program working...
Mountain Time
Perched on the western tip of Texas, just across the Rio Grande from Juárez, El Paso is known as the “Sun City.” Indeed, the...
Another Slam Dunk for Brittney Griner
There’s no doubt that Brittney Griner has been a very busy woman. In the midst of playing overseas in China, dominating women’s basketball on...
Texas Book Festival: Q&A With Alexandra Coutts
Tumble and Fall is Young Adult author Alexandra Coutts' third book. She took some time out of her day at the 2013 Texas Book...
Texas School Districts Attempt to Ban LGBT Books
Over two centuries ago, the founding fathers recognized that the basic human desire to express thoughts, opinions and ideas is invaluable and should be...
Culture Curator
Years before Clay Smith became the literary director of the Texas Book Festival, the largest event of its kind in the state, he had...
Got Books?
Think libraries are quaint, dusty relics of another time? Don’t tell Tim Staley that.
Staley is the executive director of the Austin Public Library Friends...
529 College Savings Plan
Raising a child in this day and age isn’t easy – or inexpensive. In fact, college costs are rising faster than the rate of...
