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The San Marcos-based Texas and Western Literature Book Club winds up its Lone Star reading with a book about a slave community.

This week, we feature a rollicking read about a Scottish bookseller and a groundbreaking chronicle by black educators ...

This week’s selection features a potent biography on Sam Houston’s late career and a perfect Father’s Day gift—life ...

When Americans think of the American Revolution, they typically think of the ground troops led by men such ...

Fiction Recreating the Texas Revolution ‘Captain Putnam for the Republic of Texas’ By James L. Haley In this ...

“The thing you choose not to do fractions off and becomes its own reality, you know, and just goes on forever,” Linklater himself says in Slacker’s opening scene. His character (credited only as “Should Have Stayed at Bus Station”) is monologuing to a taxi driver about an imaginary book he’s just read inside a particularly vivid dream. But really, he’s talking about Austin. Slacker presents the city as a universe willed into existence by those who chose not to do anything. It’...