• Author Diane Lovejoy and one of her precious cats
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  • Diane Lovejoy's Cat Lady Chronicles combines her two passions: art and furryfelines.
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  • Diane Lovejoy and her father in Jackson Square in 1957. Even as a youngster, sheloved cats.
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  • Ann Richards was a born entertainer, author Jan Reid says.
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  • Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards
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  • Author Jan Reid believes Richards lives on so vividly in our memories becauseshe was “such a refreshing difference from what we see now.”
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  • Photo of a young Ann Richards.
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  • Richards in her later years.

  • Author Emma Donoghue
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  • Astray by Emma Donoghue

  • Novelist Attica Locke
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  • Locke's new book, The Cutting Season, is set in a Louisiania plantation.
  • Attica Locke's father, Houston attorney Gene Locke

  • Author Junot Díaz will open the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series onMonday.
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  • This is How You Lose Her, Díaz's newest book, was released on Sept. 11.
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  • Texas writer Andrew Porter will be at Brazos Bookstore on Wednesday to discusshis newest novel, In Between Days.
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  • The novel — Porter's debut full-length piece — is set in Houston.

  • The fight to save New Orleans has been a long battle that continues.
  • Daniel Wolff
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  • The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back
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  • Booksellers are anticipating a new biography of Ann Richards by Jan Reid.
  • Expect a lot of new novels that copy Fifty Shades of Grey.
  • Justin Cronin's The Twelve is out in October.
  • At BookExpo, Dan Rather, whose latest book, Rather Outspoken: My Life in theNews, is in bookstores now, explained how he and KHOU invented modern hurricanecoverage.
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  • Stephen Colbert composed random euphemisms for his penis during a BookExpobreakfast panel discussion.
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  • Canada by Richard Ford
  • Wanna Get Lucky? by Deborah Coonts
  • The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
  • The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
  • Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon