Books

The Finnegans Wake Reading Group of Austin, TX reads one page every other week.

“If an entity is going to try to restrict access to a title or a book, we are going to try to figure out how to make sure people have access to that book,” said Eric Brooks, who owns Black Pearl Books with his wife, Katrina.

Author Nicholas Solis found his voice through writing stories for kids. He will read his latest book “The Littlest Grito" at the festival on Nov. 17.

Livra Books and Curiosities, which opened last weekend in Hyde Park, sells historical books and rare finds from tianguis in Mexico City, New York and Latin America.

More than 10,000 books are banned inside Texas prisons.

Students gathered at the Capitol this week to write letters to Texas lawmakers against book bans. One organizer said she hoped by being there the students would learn the statehouse was their house.

The festival is celebrating its 18th year from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the George Washington Carver Museum and Library.

The Lake Travis ISD School Board voted this month to keep one book in the high school library and remove another after a parent with kids in elementary school formally challenged them.

The law, which was scheduled to go into effect in September, requires vendors to rate any books they sell to school districts based on their sexual content and references.

Plaintiffs claimed that the 2023 law, which required book vendors to rate the explicitness of sexual references in materials sold to schools, was unconstitutionally broad.