Books

Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss "Lonesome Road" by Gina Berriault.

Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss two stories by Grace Paley—"Goodbye and Good Luck" and "Living."

Kelly Sather discusses her award-winning story collection, 'Small in Real Life.'

Elizabeth Crook's latest novel, The Madstone, is a thrilling story set in Texas in the late 1860s. Protagonist Benjamin Shreve sets out on a long journey to help a pregnant mother and her little son evade a murderous gang.

The spooky season remains alive at the Texas Book Festival, where Richard Z. Santos will talk with the authors of the stories in his recent Latinx horror anthology A Night of Screams.

Two new books chronicle the lives of two pop idols, Madonna and Britney Spears. The way each came to stardom — and what happened to them after — illuminates why their paths have been so different.

"I love the way that Texans talk," Wright says. His novel centers on a naïve rancher who lucks into a seat in the state legislature, where he meets lobbyists, veteran politicians and power brokers.

“Texas State Parks: The First 100 Years” is a granular look at how the park system came to be.

Prison book programs have been sending free books to Texas prisons for years, but recently, they've been told they're no longer allowed to under a Texas Department of Criminal Justice policy they say they've never heard of before.