Books

Will Evans, the founder of Deep Vellum Books, sees a booming Dallas literary and cultural scene. It just needs to be able to tell its story.

Advocates say the mission needs every Texan who values education, not just activist organizations.

Located at Preston and Royal, Bird’s Bookstore is a sleek alternative to the dusty bookshops of olde.

Ahead of a book tour stop at Interbang Books, we caught up with author Jeff Weiss as he examines the role he played in invasive celebrity coverage of the early 2000s.

The global literature festival heads to Dallas this fall, with events at the Wild Detectives and the Texas Theatre.

This Saturday, Aug. 9, Dallas bookstores will celebrate Romance Bookstore Day with local authors and giveaways.

Opening its doors just a stones throw from the Texas Theatre, Fine Print is the magazine shop that Dallas sorely needs.

The author will bring his new book, Hey You Assholes, to life next week at Deep Vellum Books.

We figured you could use an escape (or six) from the non-stop barrage of bullshit happening around us at all times.

Before these flicks hit the big – and small – screens, check out the books that inspired them.

The annual literature celebration promises slam poetry, a book fair, live jazz and a conversation with former Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.

Deep Vellum is one of the local groups that must proceed without the grant money promised by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The city’s first-ever poet laureate looks back on a year of his groundbreaking book, Occupy Whiteness and its prescience for the times we’re in now.

Curated by Tessa Granowski, Nature of Things and OOps bOOks opened this month with a joint Dave Hickey installation.

Strickland will sign and talk about his new book You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave at Half Price Books April 26.

At these North Texas shops, escapism is only a book away.

The free event brings some of Latin America’s biggest stars, including the Argentine band Él Mató a un Policía Motorizado.

With an upcoming gig in Dallas and a new novel on the way, the bestselling author remains as busy as ever.

The woman-owned shop specializing in fiction and children’s books opened quietly this month.

Zines like Rejected Pro Wrestlers and So I Party in Deep Ellum littered the Dallas Contemporary last weekend.

Not likely, says a UCLA professor who traced the evolution of Black neighborhoods over 50 years.

The Booked Up building in Archer City is now home to the Larry McMurtry Literary Center, which has the Texas book scout’s shop collection for donations to the foundation.