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Fox Announces Bloom County Animated Series

Time to get out of the dandelion patch: FOX has announced it's developing a new animated adaptation of Bloom County, the Pulitzer-winning cartoon strip by UT alum Berkeley Breathed, from the animation studio behind Bob's Burgers.

7:00AM Fri. Feb. 18, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

RIP Willie Siros, 1952-2022

Austin's genre fiction community will walk into the future a little slower today, as it has been announced that Willie Siros, bookseller and convention pioneer, died Jan. 5 at the age of 69.

4:30PM Fri. Jan. 7, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Jan Reid: A Remembrance

Jan Reid, author of The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, the Ann Richards bio Let the People In, several other books, and scores of magazine articles, died on Saturday, Sept. 19. His writing was widely admired, and he was a friend to many other writers. One was Chronicle contributor Jesse Sublett, who offers this remembrance of Reid.

11:30AM Tue. Sep. 22, 2020, Jesse Sublett Read More | Comment »

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In Memoriam: Jan Reid

To use the vernacular of boxing – the sport Jan Reid so loved – he was a writer with a one-two punch. From the left came nonfiction – much of it for magazines with many of the most memorable stories for Texas Monthly – then he'd follow from the right with killer fiction. Sadly, Reid has left the ring. He died Saturday of heart failure at the age of 75.

3:27PM Mon. Sep. 21, 2020, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Come Sail Away With Amanda Ward's The Jetsetters

"In the morning, Charlotte went to mass. When she knelt after communion, during the time she felt she had the most direct and clear line to God, she prayed, Dear God, please let me win a Mediterranean sea cruise."
For some people, going on a cruise is just that important. And Amanda Eyre Ward gets it. Really gets it.

1:00PM Wed. Apr. 22, 2020, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

The Persistence of Vision Podcast Books Your Life Up Right

They’re telling you to stay the fuck home, citizen. “Binge some video,” they’re telling you. “Read some books, listen to podcasts,” they’re saying.

8:00AM Mon. Mar. 16, 2020, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Book Review: Barn 8

Imagine Moby Dick as a chicken.
Well, that's not quite right. Imagine, rather, Moby-Dick – the book – as a story about the industry that exploits chickens for their eggs. And imagine a quartet of Ahabs – though more disaffected than monomaniacal – on a crusade to crack that Great White Egg.

5:25PM Mon. Mar. 9, 2020, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Opening the Case on the American Sherlock

Murder is Kate Winkler Dawson's business.
The UT-Austin lecturer, journalist, and documentary film producer has spent decades reporting on and studying violent crime. Now she's written a true-crime tale about the early days of criminal forensic investigation, American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI.

2:15PM Wed. Feb. 12, 2020, Mike Berry Read More | Comment »

Why Sarah Elaine Smith Writes the Way She Does

For her debut novel Marilou Is Everywhere, Sarah Elaine Smith has crafted a compelling missing girl mystery and delicately nudged it to the corner of the frame to focus instead on a girl left behind, a girl who will eventually disappear from her own life.

11:30AM Wed. Oct. 23, 2019, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

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