2007 CoLA Events
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Ransom Center Kicks Off Texas Book Festival with "Literary Austin" Event
Date: November 1, 2007
Location: Jessen Auditorium, Homer Rainey Hall
Time: 7:00 PM
The Texas Book Festival and the Harry Ransom Center present a panel of Austin writers who will discuss their contributions to "Literary Austin," an anthology edited by Don Graham, a leading authority on Texas literature and culture. Graham is the Dobie Regents Professor in American and English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin.
Austin author Stephen Harrigan will moderate the panel, which includes Robert Draper, Don Graham, Bill Minutaglio, Karen Olsson, John Spong and Marion Winik.
"Literary Austin" brings together the history, color and character of Austin since 1839, when it was selected as the site for a new capital of the Republic of Texas. Essays, fiction and poetry in the anthology reveal the variety of literary responses to Austin through the decades and are organized in a chronological style to reveal the themes, places and personalities that have defined the life of the city.