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Archive
of Monthly Programs
Monthly programs are free and open to the public.
2008
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| August 21, 2008 |

Paul Benjamin
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Tony Salvaggio
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Alan Porter
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Matt Sturges
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Scott Kolins
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| July 17, 2008 |
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Bob & Margie Mahoney
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| June 19, 2008 |
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Dr. Dave Ciambrone
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Dr. Dave Ciambrone is
a retired scientist, Oceanographer,
archaeologist, professor, magician and author
living in Georgetown, Texas, with his wife,
Kathy. Dave has published five Virginia
Davies Mysteries, Laguna Treasure,
Napa Nights, Pelican Cove and
Castle Finlaystroke. He has also published
three management books: Waste Minimization
as a Strategic Weapon, Environmental
Life Cycle Analysis and Effective Transition
from Design to Production.
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| May 15, 2008 |

Liz Carmack
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Carol Dawson
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Dave McNeeley
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Marsha Moyer
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Joe O'Connell
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Mary Gordon Spence
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Mary Gordon Spence emcees,
and Jo Virgil of Barnes & Noble
Westlake will sell copies of the authors'
books, which can be signed during the evening.
Come enjoy coffee and sweets and visit with
these popular writers.
Dawson, author of four critically-acclaimed
novels, made her non-fiction debut with the
2007 Violet Crown Nonfiction Prize winner
House of Plenty, the story of Luby's
Cafeterias and the cafeteria industry as a
social paradigm of Middle America.
Carmack, a freelance business
and technical writer, writes about Texas travel
and traveled more than 17,000 miles around
the Lone Star State to research her book,
Historic Hotels of Texas: A Traveler's
Guide.
McNeely, co-author of Bob
Bullock: God Bless Texas, recently retired
from the Austin American-Statesman.
Moyer is the author of four
critically-acclaimed novels: The Second
Coming of Lucy Hatch, The Last of the
Honky-tonk Angels, Heartbreak Town,
and the recently released Return of the
Stardust Cowgirl.
O'Connell is the author of Evacuation
Plan, a novel-in-stories based on his
experiences at Hospice Austin's Christopher
House.
Spence, author of Finding
Magic in the Mundane, is a popular speaker,
Austin American-Statesman op-ed columnist,
and KUT public radio commentator.
The event is free and nonmembers
are welcome. No need to RSVP. Parking is available
in the lot directly behind the Daugherty Center.
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| April 17, 2008 |
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Gail Folkins
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| March 20, 2008 |
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Barbara Trepagnier
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| February 21, 2008 |
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Irene Watson
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2007
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| Thursday, November 15, 2007 |
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Fred Zipp
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Zipp has spent 28 years in daily
newspaper journalism, the last seven as managing
editor of the Austin American-Statesman
in Austin. He began his career in Beaumont,
Texas, and has also worked for the Palm
Beach Post in Florida. Zipp graduated
from Duke University in 1977 with degrees
in history and French. He lives in Austin
with his wife Jodi and their three children.
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| Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
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Amanda Eyre Ward
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| Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Irwin A. Tang
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Tang talks of his triumphs and
tribulations in writing and publishing his
first book, an honest look at the history
of Texas A&M University and its traditional
bonfire.
He is best known nationwide
for his 2003 public tangle with Shaquille
ONeal. He unrolls the entire yarn of
how he and Shaquille ONeal battled over
Shaqs ching-chong taunts
and how Tang won. His tale reveals dirty truths
about American sports media, but also how
it has changed since publication of Tangs
opinion column telling Shaq to come
down to Chinatown.
Tang speaks on his latest book,
When Invisible Children Sing: the true
story of five street children, an idealistic
young doctor, and their dangerous hope,
and his collaboration with a high-profile
medical doctor. Finally, Tang unveils his
latest work, Asian Texans: Our Histories
and Our Lives.
He currently works as a freelance
writer for magazines and for NPRs Pacific
Time. He is writing a film adaptation
of Karl Taro Greenfields Speed Tribes
for an independent production company.
Meet the man who changed Texas
A&M University, American sports media,
and, in some ways, how Americans see Asian
Americans.
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| Thursday, August 16, 2007
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Joe O'Connell
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| Thursday, July 19, 2007 |
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Dr. Mark Busby
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Dr. Mark Busby is Director
of the Southwest Regional Humanities Center
and the Center for the Study of the Southwest
at Texas State University-San Marcos, where
he also serves as Professor of English.
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| Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
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Featured Authors

Greg Garrett

Evelyn Palfrey

Cynthia
Leitich-Smith

Karen MacInerney

Tim Tingle

Mary Gordon Spence
Master of Ceremonies
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In celebration
of Texas Writers' Month, The University of
Texas Club will host the May program. Featured
authors will read from their works and share
their insights into the writing life. A book
signing will follow the program, and books
will be available for purchase, courtesy of
Barnes & Noble La Frontera.
The evening
includes a free appetizer buffet and a cash
bar. Business casual attire.
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
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Stephanie Griest
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Stephanie Griest
Stephanie Griest, whose travel memoir
was selected for the 2007 Austin Mayor's Book
Club, will talk about her recently published book
100 Places Every Woman Should Go.
Stephanie has volunteered at children's shelters
in Russia, polished propaganda in China, and belly
danced with rumba queens in Cuba. These and other
adventures are the subject of her award-winning
memoir that was selected for the 2007 City-Wide
Reading Campaign, Around the Bloc: My Life
in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana (Villard/Random
House, 2004).
She also spent much of 2005 traveling throughout
Mexico, interviewing undocumented workers and
rallying with Zapatistas, and Atria/Simon &
Schuster will publish her memoir about these experiences
in the spring of 2008. Travelers' Tales published
her guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should
Go in March 2007.
A passionate activist, Stephanie co-founded the
Youth Free Expression Network, an anti-censorship
organization for teens that is a program of the
National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) in
New York City, and she is currently on its board.
For a non-profit educational website called The
Odyssey, she once logged in 45,000 miles on a
42-state journey across America, documenting history
that is generally overlooked in classroom textbooks
In 2000, Stephanie was a political reporter at
the Austin bureau of the Associated Press, where
she covered George W. Bush's last legislative
session as governor and his bid for the presidency.
Before that, she edited and taught journalism
at China Daily, the English mouthpiece of the
Chinese Communist Party, while serving as a Henry
Luce Scholar in Beijing. During her three-month
tenure as a Scotty Reston Fellow at the New
York Times, she wrote about male belly dancers,
Latina film makers, and dentists who replace canines
with fangs.
Stephanie's foremost love is the open road, and
her wanderlust has taken her to 25 countries.
The "Red" ones include: Russia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Estonia, Czech Republic, China, Hong
Kong, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan,
Viet Nam, the German Democratic Republic, and
Cuba. She has also traveled throughout Mexico,
Colombia, Egypt, and Turkey, and 45 of the United
States.
Stephanie graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1997 from
the University of Texas at Austin with degrees
in journalism and Post-Soviet Studies and earned
a certificate of Advanced Russian from the Moscow
Linguistics Institute. She studied Spanish at
the Ole Language School of Queretaro, Mexico and
picked up Mandarin on the streets of Beijing.
She has studied tribal gypsy belly dance for six
years and has performed in China, Mexico, New
York, California, and Texas.
She can be contacted via her mailing list at
www.aroundthebloc.com,
or on Myspace at www.myspace.com/aroundthebloc.
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| Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
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Stayton Bonner
Stayton Bonner is a writer
and award-winning musician whose previous journalistic
work has appeared in The Daily Texan
and Texas Monthly.
His friends Cody and Julie Ressell, proprietors
of Three Dog Books, suggested he write a piece
about Larry McMurtry's antiquarian bookselling
career. They launched Three Dog Press to publish
this, their flagship book.
McMurtry was gracious enough to consent to several
interviews, with this book being the result. Stayton
and his wife Catherine live in Austin, Texas.
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| Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
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Austin WriterGrrls
Kimberly Cockrill Pflaum, Julie Sucha
Anderson, and E.S. (Beth) Carlson,
editors of Grrl Talk: Sass, Wit, and Wisdom from
the Austin WriterGrrls, will lead readings and
hold a panel discussion about the book's creation
at the February Monthly Meeting. The Austin WriterGrrls
is a diverse group of over 70 women who support
each other - online and in person - through first
sentences, final drafts, submissions, acceptances,
and rejections. Since its beginning eight years
ago, it's always been a support and encouragement
group, not a critique group. The group is now
celebrating the publication of its first anthology,
Grrl Talk: Sass, Wit, and Wisdom from the Austin
WriterGrrls, (published on a print-on-demand basis
through lulu.com.) With cover art by artist Sarah
Higdon and a foreword from Liz Carpenter, the
book features 47 pieces by 26 women writers.
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| Thursday, January 18, 2007 |
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Lana Castle
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Lana Castle explains publishers'
common interests and what they expect of authors.
She includes the amusing story about the way that
Finding Your Bipolar Muse: How to Master Depressive
Droughts & Manic Floods & Access Your
Creative Power got its name.
Lana Castle is a writer, speaker
and mental health advocate with a passion for
the creative arts. She is the author of:
Finding Your Bipolar Muse: How to Master Depressive
Droughts & Manic Floods & Access Your
Creative Power (2006)
Bipolar Disorder Demystified: Mastering the
Tightrope of Manic Depression (2003)
Style Meister: The Quick-Reference Custom Style
Guide (1998)
She has 28 years' experience in
communications, publishing and training, and owns
the Austin-based company, Castle Communications.
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