Michael Jackson book wins another gold medal
“The King of Style: Dressing Michael Jackson” by author and costumer Michael Bush has won the Gold Medal for best gift-holiday-specialty book at this year’s PubWest Book Design Awards. Bush served as...
View ArticleNew 410 Reading Club explores the modern Mexican American experience
Domingo Martinez, a 2012 finalist for the National Book Award for “The Boy Kings of Texas,” kicks off a new literary series on San Antonio’s South Side. The Texas A&M University-San Antonio...
View ArticleGuerrero wins poetry prize
San Antonio poet Laurie Ann Guerrero has won the 2013 Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, which carries a prize of $12,000. Celeste Guzmán Mendoza received $5,000 for honorable mention. Born...
View ArticleAmazon notes San Antonio has its heart in the right place
Ay, mi corazon! With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, San Antonio tops a list of most romantic cities in the United States, according to Amazon.com. The cities were determined by compiling...
View ArticleSan Antonio high school poet wins Poetry Out Loud contest
Kristina Watkins, a senior at the Henry Ford Academy: Alameda School for Art + Design in San Antonio, won the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest in Austin on Saturday. High school students...
View ArticleSan Antonio writers finalists for Texas Institute of Letters Awards
San Antonio writers Nan Cuba, Xavier Garza and Express-News reporter John MacCormack are finalists for the Texas Institute of Letters Awards for works published in 2013. Cuba is nominated for the award...
View ArticleSan Antonio writers take home Texas Institute of Letters Awards
San Antonio was well-represented in the winner’s circle at this year’s Texas Institute of Letters awards for writing published in 2013. Nan Cuba, founder of Gemini Ink and professor of literature at...
View ArticleGemini Ink awarded NEA grant
San Antonio literary non-profit Gemini Ink received a $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant to support its Writers in Communities workshops. It was one of 886 organizations nationwide to...
View ArticleSan Antonio ‘Cana’ author wins award for archaeological thriller
San Antonio attorney and author David Beckett has won the Silver Medal for best suspense/thriller in the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards — or “IPPY” Awards — for his 2013 novel “The Cana...
View ArticleGemini Ink and BiblioTech receive NEA grant
Gemini Ink and partner BiblioTech have been awarded a $25,000 Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to implement a program called Tinta Digital (Digital Ink). Tinta Digital is a...
View ArticleRain won’t stop the SA Book Festival
Break out the ponchos; the San Antonio Book Festival will go on despite rain in the forecast. The festival is set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Central Library, 600 Soledad, and the adjacent...
View ArticleCisneros’‘Mango’ inspires art exhibition
Sandra Cisneros’ groundbreaking book “The House on Mango Street” is the inspiration for a new art exhibition titled “The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community,” opening April 17 at the...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen returns with a different kind of books
Celebrated novelist, whose "Purity" is out in the fall, says he loves his characters but also loves to see them sweat.
View ArticleSwimmer Nyad’s tale: She refused to give up
NEW YORK — For her historic first crossing from Cuba to Florida in September 2013, swimmer Diana Nyad had a lot of help from her team of handlers, including the Seven Dwarfs. “I had hypothermia and...
View ArticlePoet Laureate Guerrero appointed literary director at Guadalupe
San Antonio Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero has been named director of the dormant Literary Arts program at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. She starts Aug. 24. “I am thrilled to be reviving the...
View ArticleRebel poets coming to Viva Tacoland
Actress and poet Amber Tamblyn of “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” fame and award-winning Texas poet Derrick Brown bring their Lazers of Sexcellence 5.0 Motorcycle and Poetry Tour to San Antonio on...
View Article‘Boy Kings of Texas’ chosen for Mayor’s Book Club
A finalist for the 2012 National Book Award, “The Boy Kings of Texas” has been selected as the fall 2015 selection of the Mayor’s Book Club by Mayor Ivy R. Taylor. A gritty story of growing up in...
View ArticleC-SPAN offers live coverage of the Texas Book Festival
If you can’t make it to Austin this weekend for the Texas Book Festival on the capitol grounds, don’t worry, the book festival can come to you via C-SPAN’s Book-TV. The cable network will be airing...
View Article‘San Antonio — The Saga’ is now a coffee-table book
“San Antonio — The Saga, ” renowned French artist Xavier de Richemont’s 24-minute, $1 million, 7,000-square-foot visual projection onto the façade of San Fernando Cathedral, is not just a spectacular...
View ArticlePayton named director of Trinity Press
Tom Payton has been named director of Trinity University Press, effective Jan. 1. He succeeds Barbara Ras, who brought the press back from dormancy in 2002 and has transformed it into one of the most...
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