Literary Lowdown

Best-selling Houston vampire novelist slated for Texas Book Festival Best-selling Houston vampire novelist slated for Texas Book Festival By Molly McManus

6.16.16  |  3:45 pm

The Texas Book Festival is back in November, celebrating all things literary for its 21st anniversary. The organization recently announced ...

Inprint's birthday

An ultra hot book party: Tickets for 87-year-old author's talk vanish An ultra hot book party: Tickets for 87-year-old author's talk vanish By Tarra Gaines

5.13.13  |  2:42 pm

Turning 30 usually calls for a blowout birthday party, but for Inprint, Houston’s preeminent literary arts organization, turning 30 ...

Last Concert Cafe gathering

How hip is Houston? Bun B, Connor Barwin & other notables star in major ad ... How hip is Houston? Bun B, Connor Barwin & other notables star in major ad campaign By Dillon Sorensen

12.19.12  |  3:57 pm

On Tuesday morning, an unlikely cast of Houstonians – including rapper Bun B, fashion designer Chloe Dao and Houston Texans linebacker ...

Book buzz

Fall preview: Top books include Ann Richards bio, more shades of Grey & Cronin's ... Fall preview: Top books include Ann Richards bio, more shades of Grey & Cronin's vampire sequel By Tarra Gaines

7.8.12  |  4:30 pm

Dan Rather explaining how he and KHOU invented modern hurricane coverage, Glee’s Chris Colfer recounting how a 10-year-old’s ...

Social Scene

Inprint Poets & Writers Ball confirms Houston's status as a literary hotbed Inprint Poets & Writers Ball confirms Houston's status as a literary hotbed By Clifford Pugh

2.21.12  |  3:13 pm

Like a lot of newcomers, Justin Cronin didn't think of Houston as a literary mecca. When he got a ...

Justin Cronin Too

Blowing in the Wind: Karol Bennett puts the soprano into Dylan for Musiqa's ... Blowing in the Wind: Karol Bennett puts the soprano into Dylan for Musiqa's season opener By Joel Luks

9.24.11  |  6:46 am

Donning groovy fashionable bell-bottoms, sporting long braids and a hair band, soprano Karol Bennett stepped away from the choir and ...

Sep 24 7:30 PM

Musiqa presents "Play a Song For Me"

Musiqa opens its 2011-2012 season with the Houston premiere of John Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man for amplifed soprano (Karol Bennett) and chamber ensemble, with text by Bob Dylan. The ...

Jan 31 7:00 PM

Justin Cronin's Favorite Film: The Lives of Others

Introduced by author Justin Cronin, this film is part of the "Movies Houstonians Love" series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Lives of Others won the Academy Award ...

Vampires galore

Esquire declares Cronin's The Passage & Arcade Fire the Best of 2010 Esquire declares Cronin's The Passage & Arcade Fire the Best of 2010 By Steven Thomson

11.22.10  |  11:47 am

Esquire magazine has pin-pointed the 102 "Best" happenings of the past year, and among those spotlighted are Rice University English ...

Shelby's Social Diary

Justin Cronin's Houston book party draws a cerebral crowd, no vampires Justin Cronin's Houston book party draws a cerebral crowd, no vampires By Shelby Hodge

6.7.10  |  6:08 pm

Champagne glasses were raised high Friday night for Houston author and newly-minted national book celebrity Justin Cronin. The mood was ...