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What can one say about a book review that concludes a great bonus in this particular novel is that the Bears beat the Cowboys? Well, so far, it’s in a tiny, minority. Ben Fountain’s novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk continues to rack up the accolades.

Fuentes fans will enjoy this lively KERA interview with the author conducted by Lee Cullum.

Today in the roundup: A grueling art project, reconsidering opera categories and budding biographers.

Dallas author Ben Fountain wins praise from The New York Times, high schoolers win awards from the Dallas Summer Musicals and the Arboretum wins the right to mow some grass but it may lose the war. Talk about a jam-packed Monday Roundup.

Krys Boyd talks with North Texas author Ben Fountain — just as he goes on tour for his new novel set at Cowboys Stadium, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.

The Alamo comes to North Texas, Dallas’ black journalists give Beyonce some props and various hires and whatnot were announced: It’s the Friday arts news roundup.

Oh, it’s nothing more than trying to make a provocative, sophisticated weekly icon — choosing the cover of The New Yorker. That’s what Francoise Mouly has done the past ten years.

In which I recount a favorite personal anecdote and a bit of wisdom from the late architecture critic for The Dallas Morning News.

Pure originality is a romantic illusion. Innovators steal and borrow and sample their predecessors. “All art is a remix” goes the new mantra. And one great example is The Matrix.