/texas-book-festival-2013 More than 200 authors and about 40,000 book fans will descend on the Texas Capitol October 26-27 for the 2013 Texas Book Festival. Throughout the year KUT News speaks with authors about their lives and their work. To celebrate the upcoming festival, we have collected some of those interviews here. From 9-11 to Scientology to the Kennedy assassination, it's a diverse set of works from a fascinating group of authors. en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:29:07 GMT /texas/2017-11-03/texas-book-festival-returns-to-austin From Texas Standard.The streets in front of the State Capitol building will be blocked off this weekend to make room for white tents and long tables piled� Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:29:07 GMT /texas/2017-11-03/texas-book-festival-returns-to-austin Joy Diaz /life-arts/2014-10-25/station-eleven-author-emily-st-john-mandel-tackles-what-comes-after-the-worlds-end Imagine a world cloaked in silence. Silence that's interrupted by occasional gunfire. A world where you are one of the few people left alive. The other 99� Sat, 25 Oct 2014 15:33:46 GMT /life-arts/2014-10-25/station-eleven-author-emily-st-john-mandel-tackles-what-comes-after-the-worlds-end Emily Donahue /texas/2014-10-24/heres-your-insider-guide-to-navigating-the-texas-book-festival Texas Book Festival will take center stage on the weekend of Oct. 25-26 as it expectedly brings more than 40,000 book lovers to the grounds of the Texas� Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:36:44 GMT /texas/2014-10-24/heres-your-insider-guide-to-navigating-the-texas-book-festival David Brown /life-arts/2014-10-23/like-the-movie-this-boyhood-book-was-12-years-in-the-making Richard Linklater’s "Boyhood" is unlike any other film. Over the course of 12 years, the cast and crew gathered to create the critically acclaimed� Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:07:48 GMT /life-arts/2014-10-23/like-the-movie-this-boyhood-book-was-12-years-in-the-making Emily Donahue, Alexandra Hart /texas/2014-10-23/here-are-12-interviews-with-2014-texas-book-festival-authors Are you going to the Texas Book Festival?Some 250 authors are descending on Austin for the festival this weekend. And Texas Standard and KUT have sat down� Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:44:00 GMT /texas/2014-10-23/here-are-12-interviews-with-2014-texas-book-festival-authors Trace Levos /politics/2014-10-20/how-thirteen-days-in-september-shows-middle-east-peace-is-still-possible Recent world events seem so complicated � and perhaps intractable � that some citizens may reel from a sense of hopelessness. But maybe our collective� Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:49:17 GMT /politics/2014-10-20/how-thirteen-days-in-september-shows-middle-east-peace-is-still-possible David Brown, Sarah Talaat /texas/2014-10-19/carrie-fountain-and-the-daring-political-act-of-writing-about-motherhood Carrie Fountain is searching for something.The Austin-based poet recently released "Instant Winner," her second book of poems. In it, she reflects on� Sun, 19 Oct 2014 18:34:00 GMT /texas/2014-10-19/carrie-fountain-and-the-daring-political-act-of-writing-about-motherhood Emily Donahue, Alexandra Hart /life-arts/2014-10-07/james-ellroys-perfidia-is-a-noir-novel-without-good-guys James Ellroy has a penchant for the persecuted.His previous works including “L.A. Confidential,� “The Black Dahlia� and “The Big Nowhere� delve into� Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:28:34 GMT /life-arts/2014-10-07/james-ellroys-perfidia-is-a-noir-novel-without-good-guys Emily Donahue /texas/2013-11-29/dallas-noir-explores-the-citys-alluring-shimmer-and-seedy-underbelly While Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurty described Dallas in Texas Monthly as “a second-rate city that wishes it were first-rate,� literary agent and� Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:57:16 GMT /texas/2013-11-29/dallas-noir-explores-the-citys-alluring-shimmer-and-seedy-underbelly David Brown /life-arts/2013-11-20/interview-the-political-climate-in-dallas-leading-to-jfks-assassination Walter Cronkite’s announcement of JFK’s assassination. The televised shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. The Zapruder film. The Warren Commission.In that� Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:28:32 GMT /life-arts/2013-11-20/interview-the-political-climate-in-dallas-leading-to-jfks-assassination David Brown