Lisa Bintrim

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• Posted Ben Barnes at BookPeople Tonight to Austinist
  Look on any electoral map, and you’ll see Texas colored in bright Republican Red. Mention Texas politics, and most people will think of W and Delay and the conservative far right. But it hasn’t always been that way. In Barn Burning, Barn Burning, former Lieutenant Governor and political prodigy Ben Barnes discusses Texas’ Democratic past, the Democrats’ fall from power in Texas and nationally, and his own political career at a crucial time of...
• Posted Adrienne Martini at BookPeople Tonight to Austinist
  Just weeks after giving birth to her first child, Adrienne Martini stood red-eyed and rain-soaked at a gas station in an unsavory part of town: I am enough of a sight that I unnerve even those who spend their nights dealing with drug-induced shootings and drive-by vomitings. . . . I look like a freak who scares all of the other freaks. Martini was on her way to check herself into the hospital's psychiatric ward....
• Posted Austinist Interviews Leah Kramer, Craftster Extraordinaire to Austinist
  Think crafts are for Girl Scouts and grandmothers? Leah Kramer wants you to think again. Leah combined her computer programming skills with her love of off-beat crafts to create Craftster, an online community for those who like to dress their irony in glitter. Think crocheted pirates and pot-holder couture. Leah will share her crafty goodness tonight at the Work*Shop, where she’ll discuss her new book, The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts. She...
• Posted UTTER Reading Series Tonight to Austinist
  Tonight at BookPeople, the UTTER Reading Series presents local writers Elisabeth Sharp McKetta and Gary Cooke. McKetta is one of the founders of Farfelu, a literary magazine dedicated to writing and art from Austin. She’s contributed short stories and poetry to a variety of publications. Gary Cooke’s work has appeared in Farfelu and his chapbook, Butterfish & Other Poems, was published by The Heyeck Press. And while you’re at BookPeople, pick up the latest...
• Posted Promises, Promises: Austinist Reviews New Fiction to Austinist
  Peter Carey’s latest novel, Theft: A Love Story, is occasionally clever, often pretentious, and ultimately unsatisfying. A mish-mash of genres---Hitchcockian how-done-it, art-world satire, high-brow drama---the novel never lives up to its potential. Michael “Butcher” Boone seems pulled from a Vanity Fair profile: A once-great artist undone by the collapse of his marriage and the scandal that followed, he emerges from obscurity only to find himself in the middle of a new controversy. He even has...