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Former Houston first lady Andrea White opens new Windows on the World with teen ... Former Houston first lady Andrea White opens new Windows on the World with teen sci-fi novels By Elizabeth Bennett

6.20.11 | 3:17 pm

“If I don’t write, it’s like pulling my fingernails off,” Andrea White told an interviewer after the publication ...

Booking It

10 books you have to read this summer: Moonwalking memory to art world felonies 10 books you have to read this summer: Moonwalking memory to art world felonies By Elizabeth Bennett

5.10.11 | 2:53 pm

If you sometimes can’t remember where you put the car keys — or like author Joshua Foer, the car itself ...

Happy anniversary

Inprint series brings the world's best writers to Houston Inprint series brings the world's best writers to Houston By Elizabeth Bennett

9.19.10 | 4:47 pm

To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie is returning ...

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Booking It

Larry McMurtry goes Hollywood in third memoir, writes of Babs' intensity and Clooney's ... Larry McMurtry goes Hollywood in third memoir, writes of Babs' intensity and Clooney's flightiness By Elizabeth Bennett

8.15.10 | 12:32 pm

“I liked Hollywood from the moment I first visited it,” Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Larry McMurtry writes in Hollywood: A Third ...

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Texan authors too

From the world's best-known atheist to Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt insights: My 10 must-read ... From the world's best-known atheist to Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt insights: My 10 must-read books for summer and fall By Elizabeth Bennett

6.18.10 | 3:30 pm

When I was book editor of the Houston Post, I was besieged with new books. Some 50 arrived every day ...

Loving and Hating the Machine

To Kindle or not Kindle? Prominent Houstonians reveal their summer reading dilemmas To Kindle or not Kindle? Prominent Houstonians reveal their summer reading dilemmas By Elizabeth Bennett

5.26.10 | 2:01 pm

Rice University English professor Justin Cronin’s new novel, The Passage, promises to be one of the hottest new books ...

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Parking Lot Blues

The Walmart cop caper: I fought city hall — and won! The Walmart cop caper: I fought city hall — and won! By Elizabeth Bennett

4.18.10 | 9:57 am

Is there anything more frustrating than returning to your car after running an errand and finding a parking ticket? That ...

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Kicking Old Age's Butt

You're never too old to exercise: Octogenarian tennis trio defies numbers in Houston ... You're never too old to exercise: Octogenarian tennis trio defies numbers in Houston tourney By Elizabeth Bennett

3.1.10 | 4:23 pm

Lovie Beard plays tennis almost every day. Singles tennis. And before she plays matches, Beard exercises every morning. She starts ...

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Book Review

Jenny Sanford's account makes you wonder why she stood by her man for ... Jenny Sanford's account makes you wonder why she stood by her man for so long By Elizabeth Bennett

2.16.10 | 12:00 am

When the sordid story of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair with an Argentinian woman made headlines last June ...

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Book Review

Larry McMurtry is never afraid to write what's on his mind Larry McMurtry is never afraid to write what's on his mind By Elizabeth Bennett

12.20.09 | 6:00 am

In Literary Life: A Second Memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Larry McMurtry is surprisingly modest about his enormously successful life in ...

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