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The key to a successful book club – we've heard – is the perfect balance of participants. You need brainy, bookish folks who are likeminded enough to agree on selections but outspoken and confident enough to engender productive discussion. If the sum total of Austin's residents doesn't embody that description, we don't know who would.

3:03PM Fri. Mar. 1, 2013, Monica Riese Read More | Comment »

Aliens in America

Edgar Award-winning Austin author Robert Jackson Bennett takes on the aliens and the atomic age in his latest book, American Elsewhere (Orbit).

9:00AM Thu. Feb. 14, 2013, Amy Gentry Read More | Comment »

Not Quite the Usual Holiday Gift Ideas

And not all just things, of course.

4:12PM Wed. Dec. 12, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Sweet Pill, Zeta, Equipment

Parish

Friends Trivia
at Waterloo Ice House

Concert in the Dark: Full Moon edition w/ Will Taylor & Ryan Murphy (the Beatles tribute) at ATX Unplugged

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Movie Rights to Ernie Cline's 'Armada' Sold

It's not like the guy needs another Delorean, but the feature film rights to Ernie Cline's upcoming novel, Armada, have already been sold to Universal Pictures to the tune of at least a million dollars according to Variety.

5:09PM Thu. Dec. 6, 2012, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

Michael Madsen, Last of the Warrior Poets

Ask Michael Madsen about the toughest part of filming Reservoir Dogs, and it wasn’t the low budget – he’s used to that. Not the famous ear-slicing scene, improvised in four takes. It may have been getting veteran actor Lawrence Tierney through his big scene, where gangster Joe Cabot gives his jewelry heist crew their nicknames.

2:29PM Mon. Dec. 3, 2012, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Dig This: Jesse Sublett's Continuing e-Book Adventures

Austin novelist Jesse Sublett first tackled the enhanced e-book market earlier this year, when he reissued his novel Rock Critic Murders digitally via the then-new iBooks Author app.

4:15PM Fri. Nov. 30, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

'Type So Hard You Bruise the Screen'

In the late 1950s, Jack Kerouac typed out a list of thirty points describing his writing practice in a piece titled “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose: List of Essentials.” Some of it makes solid sense – “4. Be in love with yr life” – others are a kind of enjoyable nonsense – “11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest.”

11:00AM Fri. Nov. 30, 2012, Owen Egerton Read More | Comment »

Just Start Talking

Two things happened for me as a writer that got me over a hurdle – one was winning the Chron contest in 2005, I think it was, and the other was running across a writing exercise suggested by David Milch, who created Deadwood and did a lot of good writing on NYPD Blue back in the day.

11:00AM Thu. Nov. 29, 2012, Bob Byington Read More | Comment »

Collecting Ideas

This list is a remix of the points in my book, Steal Like An Artist. The big idea is that writing isn't a magical ability that some people have and some don't. Writers learn to write by reading a lot and by writing a lot.

11:00AM Wed. Nov. 28, 2012, Austin Kleon Read More | Comment »

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