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Putting Houston on the Literary Map: Rich Levy’s Stellar Last Inprint Season

Tarra Gaines·September 30, 2025

The clues lay in the lineup. Sitting down for a talk with Rich Levy and Krupa Parikh, executive and deputy directors of Inprint, about their 2025-2026 Margarett Root Brown Reading Series

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Literary superstars and new voices: Inprint Houston’s biggest season ever

Tarra Gaines·August 5, 2024

Winners of National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, Booker Prizes, MacArthur Fellows and even Oscar nominees are among the writers we expect every year when Houston’s foremost literary arts organization, Inprint, announces the lineup for their Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.

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Reading Together Again: Inprint Houston’s New Season Dazzles with Big Name Writers

Tarra Gaines·August 4, 2023

With the series back to live, in-person readings for over a year now, Inprint executive director, Rich Levy, says the literary-loving audiences have also come back to see and hear from their favorite writers.

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A Meeting to Remember: Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett’s new book on ‘City Council Meeting’

Nancy Wozny·October 19, 2022

City Council Meeting was developed by Aaron Landsman amd Mallory Catlett, with design by Jim Findlay, and developed (in part) during a residency at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

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Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

Tarra Gaines·November 16, 2020

Radical reinvention: That’s what Meg Booth, chief executive officer for Society for the Performing Arts, sees in this time when artists and audiences must stay separate to stay safe.

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Novels, Poems, Memoirs!: Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Addresses Our Complicated World

Tarra Gaines·July 29, 2019

For the performing arts lover, one of the annual small joys in life can come from a favorite dance, theater or music organization revealing their next season.

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Sonia Sanchez Documentary Headlines REELpoetry

Joseph Wozny·March 7, 2019

While not quite as ancient as all nine muses of the arts, the conversation between the arts of poetry and film goes back some time. REELpoetry, curated by Toni Holland, is Public Poetry’s first poetry film event, featuring documentaries, workshops, panels, poetry performances, and cinepoetry.

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Zine Fest Houston Returns to Lawndale

Emily Hynds·October 17, 2018

Zines aren’t new, and neither are zinefests, but many people haven’t heard of either. Zines are self published “magazines” and can be about literally any subject and in any medium.

Books Features Houston

New Book, New Play: Lawrence Wright Explains Texas and Burton/Taylor Affair

Tarra Gaines·March 17, 2018

Everything in the world connects to Texas, and everything in Texas is connected.

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Remembering Harris Wittels: Stephanie Wittels Wachs’s New Sad/Funny Memoir

Tarra Gaines·February 21, 2018

“Tragedy is the cure for anxiety,” says Stephanie Wittels Wachs of the unwanted and much too costly life and death lesson grief taught her after her comedy prodigy brother Harris Wittels died of a heroin overdose in 2015.

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Creating Literary Sparks: Inprint’s Authors Reflect Houston’s Diversity

Tarra Gaines·August 11, 2017

Inprint, Houston’s literary arts organization, flies like a rare book bird among other Texas arts institutions.

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Parallel Lines: Uniting Jim Crow-Era Works by Black, White Artists at Houston Public Library

Devon Britt-Darby·June 15, 2017

Houston audiences will get a rare glimpse into the Bayou City’s pre-boom, Jim Crow-era art scene when the exhibition Planned, Organized and Established: Houston Artist Cooperatives presents paintings and ephemera from two 1930s collectives—one white, one black.

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Visual Art

In the Flesh: Jenny Saville at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Tensions of Time and Remembrance: Zalika Azim at UT Visual Arts Center

Storied Objects: Gil Rocha at Galveston Arts Center

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

‘Birdy’ Takes Flight in Texas: Hung Dance at TITAS and Performing Arts Houston

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26

Music

Boheme+Broadway: Austin Opera marks 40th anniversary

Award-Winning Apollo Chamber Players Tell The American Story Through Music

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Theater

Honoring the Past, Forging into the Future: Derek Charles Livingston Settles in at Houston’s Stages Theater

Texas Studio: Amanda Reyes is Working through It Onstage

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Books

Putting Houston on the Literary Map: Rich Levy’s Stellar Last Inprint Season

Literary superstars and new voices: Inprint Houston’s biggest season ever

Reading Together Again: Inprint Houston’s New Season Dazzles with Big Name Writers

A Meeting to Remember: Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett’s new book on ‘City Council Meeting’

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

Novels, Poems, Memoirs!: Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Addresses Our Complicated World

Sonia Sanchez Documentary Headlines REELpoetry

Zine Fest Houston Returns to Lawndale

New Book, New Play: Lawrence Wright Explains Texas and Burton/Taylor Affair

Remembering Harris Wittels: Stephanie Wittels Wachs’s New Sad/Funny Memoir

Creating Literary Sparks: Inprint’s Authors Reflect Houston’s Diversity

Parallel Lines: Uniting Jim Crow-Era Works by Black, White Artists at Houston Public Library