Daily Arts - The Austin Chronicle

After seven years expanding the programming and reputation of the Texas Book Festival, Literary Director Clay Smith is leaving the organization to serve as the new features editor at Kirkus Reviews.

3:55PM Thu. Nov. 1, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

The Dead Are Speaking with the Tongues of the Living?

A séance?

3:01PM Thu. Nov. 1, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

A Decade of Aggression at the House of Torment

The guard at the door bangs on the metal. "Fresh meat!" Wham. The ingress slams shut at the House of Torment, and you're on your own.

3:00PM Wed. Oct. 31, 2012, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Showgirls

Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

Summer Storytime at the Blanton at The Blanton Museum of Art

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Paging Through the Texas Book Festival

A cold snap necessitated breaking out the first scarves of the season, while the coming East Coast Frankenstorm prevented a dozen-plus authors from flying in, but none of that deterred an estimated 40,000 book lovers from hitting the Capitol last weekend to celebrate the Texas Book Festival.

2:10PM Mon. Oct. 29, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

I want to tell you about the men and women with the live fireworks exploding off the tops of their heads.

1:31PM Mon. Oct. 29, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Bedside Manner: Entirely Suitable for Younger Audiences

During a long, twisty Wikipedia search tracking down the name of a book illustrator, I ran across the cover of The Witches of Worm. I don't know if it was the super-Seventies yellow cover or Alton Raible's creepy pencil-shaded illustration on the front, but something about it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

10:00AM Mon. Oct. 29, 2012, Jaime deBlanc-Knowles Read More | Comment »

Wizard World: Bernie Wrightson Versus Frankenstein

Bernie Wrightson is to Frankenstein in comics what Boris Karloff was to the creator and his creature on film: Definitional. His 1983 edition, and his new sequel with Steve Niles, Frankenstein, Alive, Alive!, revisits the age of mystery and terror.

12:49PM Sat. Oct. 27, 2012 Read More | Comment »

A Son Comes Out, and a Family Comes Together

I am my subconscious's bitch. Those were the open-wound words 13-year-old Joseph Schwartz shared with his dad, New York Times science reporter John Schwartz, two weeks before his failed suicide attempt.

11:40AM Thu. Oct. 25, 2012, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Cracks in the Ceiling

Last week the Chronicle sat down for a conversation with Jan Reid, author of the new biography, Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards.

9:00AM Thu. Oct. 25, 2012, Michael King Read More | Comment »

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