From Texas Standard.The streets in front of the State Capitol building will be blocked off this weekend to make room for white tents and long tables piled…

Imagine a world cloaked in silence. Silence that's interrupted by occasional gunfire. A world where you are one of the few people left alive. The other 99…

Texas Book Festival will take center stage on the weekend of Oct. 25-26 as it expectedly brings more than 40,000 book lovers to the grounds of the Texas…

Richard Linklater’s "Boyhood" is unlike any other film. Over the course of 12 years, the cast and crew gathered to create the critically acclaimed…

Are you going to the Texas Book Festival?Some 250 authors are descending on Austin for the festival this weekend. And Texas Standard and KUT have sat down…

Recent world events seem so complicated – and perhaps intractable – that some citizens may reel from a sense of hopelessness. But maybe our collective…

Carrie Fountain is searching for something.The Austin-based poet recently released "Instant Winner," her second book of poems. In it, she reflects on…

James Ellroy has a penchant for the persecuted.His previous works including “L.A. Confidential,” “The Black Dahlia” and “The Big Nowhere” delve into…

While Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurty described Dallas in Texas Monthly as “a second-rate city that wishes it were first-rate,” literary agent and…

Walter Cronkite’s announcement of JFK’s assassination. The televised shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. The Zapruder film. The Warren Commission.In that…