A sad day for Austin's literary community: the family of Joe W. Bratcher III – publisher, filmmaker, and cofounder of MalvernBooksTX – has announced that he died at the age of 64 from complications from Covid.
A sad day for Austin's literary community: the family of Joe W. Bratcher III – publisher, filmmaker, and cofounder of Malvern Books – has announced that he died on July 28 at the age of 64 from complications from Covid.
A native Austinite and graduate of UT Austin, Bratcher cofounded and then relocated to Manhattan the company Host Publications and its signature publication: literary journal," Jan. 11, 2008), Bratcher described Host as"a very independent-minded company. ... My idea was just to put material out there so that people could experience it."
Bratcher had relocated to New York to become an educator, first at City College of New York and then at Marymount Manhattan College. However, Austin, and its formative effect on his approach to literature and creativity, remained a constant in his life. Bratcher said,"I moved away from Austin in 1995.
The connection remained strong: Even though Host's corporate offices were in New York, the publishing house retained an Austin presence with a fulfillment office on East Seventh. He was also a part of the indie film scene, executive-producing 2009'sBratcher finally made that connection to the ATX concrete in 2010: he worked to inspire that same Austin-born culture of interest without borders in new readers when he moved back to Texas and opened Malvern Books.
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