Pulp Fiction

Tarantino's second feature film lights up the screen with the same blazing torch that it carries for the idea of the movies.

"...Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken and Bruce Willis. Screw pulp fiction. Make mine a valentine. A valentine to Pulp Fiction...."

Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sehr Flash: Fiction Becomes Music

Austin composer Russell Podgorsek teams with lit journal NANO Fiction to create short short stories with original scores

"...chamber music based on newly commissioned works of flash fiction, those really short short stories that clock in at..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The One About Erotic 'Harry Potter' Fan Fiction

Filmmaker Clay Liford on fan fiction from '50 Shades' to 'Star Trek'

"...year is the one about erotic Harry Potter fan fiction...."

Sept. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Clay Liford

Plump Fiction

"...change of this magnitude in a reviewer, but Plump Fiction, with its audacious inanity and harrowing lack of smarts,..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Face to Face With Fiction

Five notable authors come to New Fiction Confab

"...you're in luck. This weekend, the fourth annual New Fiction Confab is bringing a quintet of contemporary authors to..."

April 12, 2013 Books Feature by Amy Gentry

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Less a doc than a lyrical presentation of the cult actor and surprising song man.

"...playing harmonica in granular black-and-white, Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction perfectly captures the essence of the man. Richard Linklater..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Worldbuilding With Science-Fiction Author Charlie Jane Anders

Signing for The City in the Middle of the Night at BookPeople

"...that climate change called for “science fact, not science fiction,” she probably expected some resistance from denialists, but not..."

Feb. 19, 2019 Arts Post by M. Brianna Stallings

Austin Film Festival: Science Fiction vs. Science Fact

The facts of the matter must serve the characters and story

"...While science fiction has become one of the major tentpoles holding up..."

Oct. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

Stranger Than Fiction

A good movie but not a great one, Stranger Than Fiction is reminiscent of the films of Charlie Kaufman but lacks that writer’s conceptual rigor and imaginative power.

"...good movie but not a great one, Stranger Than Fiction is reminiscent of the films of Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation,..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Follow That Fiction

American Short Fiction launches a new issue and a new craft series

"...makes House Wine the perfect venue for American Short Fiction's upcoming craft talk...."

Aug. 4, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

AFF Review: American Fiction

Uproarious erudite comedy gives the Black middle class a voice

"...American Fiction deals with a quaint notion, the idea of "selling..."

Oct. 30, 2023 Screens Post by Rod Machen

Queer Lit: Gina Marie Guadagnino’s Debut Combines Lesbian Romance and Historical Fiction

The Parting Glass makes for an engaging, at times cheesy, read

"...I’m skeptical of historical fiction, having been burned far too many times by authors..."

March 4, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Mikaila Rushing

American Short Fiction's Long To-Do List

Contests, classes, and Ben Marcus at BookPeople

"...American Short Fiction editor Jill Meyers recently dropped us a line about..."

Jan. 5, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Writing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Austin

How local authors who work beyond the world we know meet, connect, and launch themselves into the business

"...fannish good time, but somewhere aspiring writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror could meet and polish their craft..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

American Fiction, American Reality

Cord Jefferson is putting the Black middle class back on the screen

"...at the heart of Jefferson's feature directorial debut, American Fiction. Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, an academic and..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Science Fiction Gets the Vapors

On steampunk

"..."We're living in science fiction," people like to say...."

July 25, 2008 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

American Fiction

Cord Jefferson's literary comedy lets the Black middle class shine

"...American Fiction deals with a quaint notion, the idea of "selling..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Rod Machen

Non-Fiction

Olivier Assayas sharpens his teeth for this new attack on the question of art versus commerce

"...publishing. Léonard’s novels tend to be what he calls “auto-fiction” (the film’s French title is Doubles Vies, which perhaps..."

May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Page Two: Fictional Fiction According to John Irving

Louis Black interviews his former writing teacher about his latest novel, Avenue of Mysteries

"...Below is a consideration of fiction, writing, and the writer. Next week in "Page Two"..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Virgin Fiction

First-time publication is like a cotillion for writers, Martin Wilson writes as he reviews five new first novels. And debut novelists are the gussied-up belles at the ball, with butterflies in their stomachs, dreaming of the glorious future that awaits them.

"...Mary and O'Neil: Fictionby Justin Cronin The Dial Press, 246 pp., $21.95..."

April 27, 2001 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Nisi Shawl Is Crossing the Streams of Fantastical Fiction

The Tiptree-winning author brings her new alt-history to the ATX

"...presenting as part of the latest iteration of Fantastical Fictions...."

Sept. 7, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Young Adult Fiction

Mobley's mighty music

"...2, which is HAAM Day. It's called Young Adult Fiction, but it could be called Modern Torch. Watkins says..."

Oct. 1, 2012 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Get Your Hot, Fresh Short Fiction Right Here

American Short Fiction hits newsstands

"...Looking for a short fiction fix? Look no further than the aptly titled American..."

May 12, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Downtown Owl: A Novel

In his fiction debut, pop-culture critic Chuck Klosterman carries over the best and worst of his distinctive voice

"...revealed his next book would be a piece of fiction, stating, "I often use my life as a literary..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Books Review by Audra Schroeder

Page Two: Life, Fiction, and Selling Out

Life, fiction, and selling out

"...about art and commerce, love and subsistence, life and fiction – not as distinct entities, but rather the effort..."

March 31, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Rosalind Faires' Top 10 Fiction Books of 2019

Here’s to a year of rollicking adventures, laughing, weeping, and rooting for those crazy kids to wind up together in the end

"...faux oral history about a Seventies rock group is fiction, but you'll Google to double-check just the same –..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Five Pet Cats in Modern Fiction

And you won’t believe what happens to the third one

"...Father of Modern Psychological Warfare – aka the under-celebrated science-fiction genius Cordwainer Smith. Never mind the girlygirl C’Mell –..."

Feb. 15, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fact or Fiction

"..."News" sections. Inquiring minds want to know: Fact or fiction?!..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Postmarks

Rules for Werewolves

This tale of runaways prowling suburbia in a pack recalls the eerie unreality of The Twilight Zone

"...whole full-moon fang-sprouting and fur-erupting of horror film and fiction – is left to the reader's imagination...."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Science-Fiction Cinema

Other Worlds Austin film festival debuts; interviews with the directors of Apt 3D and The Well featured

"...film festival, which is dedicated to the presentation of science-fiction filmmaking, takes place Thursday, Dec. 4, through Saturday, Dec...."

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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