Small old buildings, acoustic guitars and freshly printed journals filled with the work of Austin’s young poets, dramatists and storytellers — this is the landscape of Austin’s literary renaissance.
Editor’s Note: To accompany our Pulitzer Prize for Fiction package which ran on April 15, 2013, The Daily Texan has compiled a list of the Pulitzer Prizes awarded for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize.
In Dave Eggers’ “A Hologram for the King,” an almost broke salesman, close to unemployment, is trying in vain to support his daughter’s college education.
In “One Last Thing Before I Go,” directly after the protagonist Drew Silver chooses to opt out of a life-saving surgery, there are only four things on his to-do list: be a better father, be a better man, fall in love and die.
