Churches transform into literary temples at Texas Book Festival

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A “homoerotic comic book” featuring actors Chris Pratt and Nick Offerman is most likely not a standard refrain at the First Baptist Church of Austin. Likewise, the description of the boiled brain of a Native American man, during a discussion about Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth’s graphic novel, “Indeh,” is probably not something you normally hear at First United Methodist.
But for the two days of the Texas Book Festival, churches open thei