Georgetown, Texas
WHAT’S HAPPENING?
Hill Country Authors Series
In 2008 the Friends are continuing to host The Hill Country Authors Series at the Georgetown Library to introduce local authors to our community and to raise funds to support our library. The presentations are held in the Community Rooms on the second floor of the Library; desserts and coffee or tea is catered by the Red Poppy Coffee Company, which operates the café in the library.
Proceeds of the Hill Country Authors series are used to fund unbudgeted projects at the Georgetown Public Library.
Tickets for the next event on Friday, Nov 21st at 2 PM will go on sale October 15th at Second-Hand Prose, the used book store operated by the FOL. The store is located on the second floor of the library. The price is $13.00 per ticket in advance, or $15.00 at the door, and include dessert and beverage. Tickets may also be obtained by calling Louise Beyer at 512.635.3447 after October 15, 2008.
Austin Author, Amanda Eyre Ward, May, 2008
Amanda
Ward was the speaker at the May 8th Hill Country Authors Series. Her
charming ways captivated the audience of nearly 100 attendees as she
described her career as a fiction writer. Take a look at some candid
shots in our Photo Gallery.
Future Hill Country Authors Series Presenters
On
Friday, November 21st, Joe Nick Patoski will discuss
Willie Nelson and Texas: How One Man Personifies the State.
Patoski, The author of the recent best-seller, “Willie Nelson: An Epic
Life”, previously published biographies of Texas musicians Selena (Selena:
Como La Flor) and Stevie Ray Vaughn (Stevie
Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire), all
published by Little, Brown and Company.
Publishers Weekly said about Patoski’s latest book on Willie, “This impressive, entertaining chronicle of Willie Nelson's life is replete with exactly what you'd expect--honky-tonk, long nights on the open road, whiskey, womanizing and weed--but Texas writer Patoski (Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire, Texas Mountains) looks beyond country music trappings to find the funny, talented, determined man who became an unlikely icon. Raised in Abbott, Texas, by impoverished grandparents, Nelson was writing songs about "love, betrayal and cheating" by the age of seven, but was told throughout his life that he couldn't sing, play or keep a beat. As an adult, Nelson worked odd jobs--encyclopedia salesman among them--while selling songs in Nashville; he had an early hit in 1961 with Patsy Cline's "Crazy," and soon began recording for RCA. Fourteen albums later, "with not much to show," Nelson fled to Austin, Texas, a move many viewed as career suicide; instead, it was a launching pad to stardom, propelled by the up-and-coming hippie movement and the strength of his groundbreaking album Red Headed Stranger. Patoski conducted over a hundred interviews for this thorough, well-noted "epic," peopling it with "pickers, gypsies, pirates, vagabonds, wanderers and carneys," including fellow performers like Kris Kristofferson, Kinky Friedman and Leona Williams. Writing with an affectionate country twang, Patoski gives his subject the consideration he deserves in a fine, fluid piece of storytelling that any Nelson fan will appreciate.”
In his fourth decade of writing about Texas and Texans, Joe has authored and co-authored coffee-table books Texas Mountains, Texas Coast, and Big Bend National Park, all published by the University of Texas Press. He spent 18 years as a staff writer for Texas Monthly and more recently has written for the Texas Observer, National Geographic, and People magazine, Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, Field & Stream, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Big Bend Sentinel, American Way, and the Austin Chronicle. Joe is an avid swimmer and kayaker, and lives near the village of Wimberley in the Texas Hill Country.
Tickets are $13 in advance, and $15 at the door. They may be purchased at Second-Hand Prose, the used book store which is operated by the Friends of the Georgetown Public Library, located on the second floor of the Georgetown Public Library, or contact Louise Beyer at 512-635-3447. Proceeds of the fundraiser will be used to support unbudgeted projects at the library.
Desserts and beverages from the Red Poppy Café are included in the price. Copies of Joe Nick Patoski’s books will be available for purchase.