FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 27, 2001
Contact: Patricia Fraga, Austin Public Library, (512) 974-7528
Fax: (512) 974-7442
October Author Series at the Austin Public Library
On Thursday, October 11, at 7:00 p.m. the Pleasant Hill Branch of the Austin Public Library, 211 E. William Cannon Drive, will host author David Rice, currently the writer in residence at the Llano Grande Center in the Rio Grande Valley. The Center, a school and community-based nonprofit organization located in the Edcouch-Elsa High School building, aims to inspire and educate the Hispanic community to succeed through its research, training, and development programs. Rice, a former Austin Public Library staff member, will read from his latest collection of short stories, Crazy Loco. "One could conceive of his finding a comfortable niche in the pages of Chicano literature in the years to come," states Kirkus Reviews. Other works from Rice include Give the Pig a Chance & Other Stories.
The second series will feature favorite children's author/illustrator Keith Graves, author of Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance and Pet Boy, just to name a few. The author will be available on Wednesday, October 31, at 3:30 p.m. at the Hampton Branch at Oak Hill of the Austin Public Library, 5125 Convict Hill Road. Pet Boy was reviewed by Booklist: "Graves' verse text displays an airy disregard for consistent rhythms and unforced rhymes, but he stocks his darkly lambent acrylics with a wild assortment of bizarrely hued, rubbery looking creatures. Though lacking the delectable grossness of his crowd-pleasing Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance (1999), this delivers a worthy thought with engaging silliness." Come celebrate Halloween with this monster-making author/illustrator. A great (not so scary) story for Halloween!
