The Insider's Outsider Guide to Texas
Remembering Bud Shrake
Clay Smith
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Books, May 15, 2009
Barlow the Ubiquitous
Daily Reviews and Interviews
Screens, March 20, 2009
St. Nick
Reviews and interviews
Screens, March 20, 2009
Four Boxes
Reviews and interviews
Screens, March 20, 2009
Mine
Reviews and interviews
Screens, March 20, 2009
Alexander the Last
Reviews and interviews
Screens, March 20, 2009
The Bus Stops Here
The 'How's Your News?' crew rolls out its unique brand of reportage on MTV
Screens, Feb. 27, 2009
Digging for Change
Cash-strapped but ever hopeful, aGLIFF looks to next year
Screens, Dec. 12, 2008
History Circles Its Tail
Gus Van Sant on the life of Seventies crusader Harvey Milk and the parallels between then and now
Screens, Dec. 5, 2008
A Festival in Transition
Twenty-one years on, aGLIFF reinvents itself
Screens, Aug. 29, 2008
Of Strip Clubs and Hash Stashes
On location: 'Dance With the One'
Screens, Aug. 1, 2008
Back in Action
Nine years after 'Boys Don't Cry,' Kimberly Peirce returns with the backdoor draft drama 'Stop-Loss'
Screens, March 28, 2008
Ministering to the Dead
A death row chaplain has a change of heart in At the Death House Door
Screens, March 7, 2008
Journalist George Crile on His 'Charlie Wilson's War'
Journalist George Crile believes that "something about Texas and its oil heritage seems to permit its citizens to reinvent their histories and to carry out their lives as if they were part of an ongoing theatrical experience." So, how does this relate to legendary Lufkin Congressman Charlie Wilson, the CIA, and Afghanistan?
Books, June 27, 2003
See, Memory
Once they unwrap these, they'll put them on the coffee table or in the WC, and then they'll hug you!
Books, Dec. 13, 2002
Big Mischief
Novelist Edward Swift is still battling 'the disease of the literal minded'
Books, Nov. 1, 2002
Man Walks Into a Room
"Often enough in Man Walks Into a Room, you get a plot description and a lesson," writes Clay Smith of Nicole Krauss' beguiling and haunting debut novel, about a man who loses his memory and isn't particularly interested in getting it back.
Books, Aug. 23, 2002
Arthur Phillips' Prague
Clay Smith reviews Prague, whose author, Arthur Phillips, will be at BookPeople on Tuesday, July 16, 7pm.
Books, July 12, 2002
Farewell
Books Editor Clay Smith says farewell in a final column.
Books, June 7, 2002
Never on Sunday
Screens, June 7, 2002
The Emperor of OceanPark
Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002
Books, May 31, 2002
Fluff or Fancy?
Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002
Books, May 31, 2002
The Count and the Confession
Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002
Books, May 31, 2002
The Last American Man
Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002
Books, May 31, 2002
Recommended
Books, May 24, 2002
Steven Saylor's Ancient Habit
Steven Saylor's series of mysteries set in ancient Rome is one of the best mystery series being published today.
Books, May 24, 2002
Recommended
Books, May 24, 2002
Steven Saylor's Ancient Habit
Steven Saylor's series of mysteries set in ancient Rome is one of the best mystery series being published today.
Books, May 24, 2002
Book Review
Books, May 17, 2002
Borderline Vaudeville
The off, off, off Broadway return of "Border Radio"
