All the Ladies in the House

Texas authors Sarah Bird and Diane Wilson win Dobie Paisano fellowships

"...We Studied Women) and Philipp Meyer (whose debut novel American Rust earned great reviews this spring)...."

May 15, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

American Rust: A Novel

Former Austinite Philipp Meyer has impeccable, even prescient, timing with his debut novel about an economically ravaged steel town in Pennsylvania

"...American Rust: A novelby Philipp Meyer Spiegel & Grau, 367..."

March 13, 2009 Books Review by James Renovitch

Fahrenheit 11/9

Michael Moore takes on the Trump years

"...Iraq and Afghanistan, Moore here addresses the decline of American democracy and the increased peril the ideal faces from..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How to Market a Book All Stealth-Like

Michener grad benefits from bizarro product placement

"...Meyer netted some advance press for his debut novel American Rust... right smack in the middle of another author's..."

Jan. 28, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Top Books to Make Sense of a World Breaking Down

Jay Trachtenberg's top reads of 2016 explore a planet in crisis in Israel, rust-belt Ukraine, and the Antarctic

"...and provides a vehicle to explore the relationship of American Jews to Israel. A master of writing dialogue, Foer..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Short and Sweet: “Red Sands”

Riding the dunes with El Paso's gearheads and off-roaders

"...outside of El Paso, Texas, the dunes glow like rust. It's from the iron oxide in the soil. Thirty-four..."

March 7, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest First Wave Hits Hard

Stephen King adaptations, Arabic cinema, and Three Billboards

"...to archive oddities; from the Arabic world to the rust belt; and from raucous laughs to nerve-jangling terror, the..."

Aug. 8, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Documentary Exhumes a Personal History Folk Icon and Activist Joan Baez

The Diamonds & Rust of Joan Baez I Am a Noise

"...O'Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O'Boyle (making its North American premiere at South by Southwest) quite literally opens a..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Doug Freeman

Lazarus' Second Location Works Hard So You Can Relax With a Beer

The new, North Loop location is Laz'r focused

"...he visits Austin from back home in the hardcore American Rust Belt. It's one of the city's enduring features:..."

March 3, 2023 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Fantasia Review: Lapsis

The gig economy savaged in this SF warning about modern capital

"...it's only been 20 years since under half of American households owned a computer. Even on the verge of..."

Sept. 3, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ACL Live Review: Kacey Musgraves

Texan crossover commands her masses

"...of golden hour, Kacey Musgraves’ ebullient performance at the American Express stage on Sunday radiated enough to compensate throughout..."

Oct. 7, 2019 Music Post by Elise Barbin

The Son Rises With Philipp Meyer

Austin author on adapting his award-winning novel for AMC

"...time to pen the bulk of his debut novel American Rust, about the American Dream gone wrong in a..."

April 7, 2017 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Coffee Table Iconoclasts

Oversized books and outsized personalities

"...hand-painted signs and includes in its first-person essays by American practitioners two Austinites, Norma Jeanne Maloney and Gary Martin...."

Nov. 30, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

2010 Dobie Paisano Fellows Announced

Writers Philipp Meyer and John Pipkin to split time at 250-acre former ranch of J. Frank Dobie

"...Letters' 2010 Steven Turner Award – and Meyer for American Rust, a bestseller about an industry town in decline..."

May 11, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Festival Review: Buck Alamo

Sonny Carl Davis shines as a fading Austin burnout

"...geodes on South Congress, driving a pick-up that's more rust than steel, and has stories about the good old..."

Oct. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Son

Imagine an aerial view of Texas, in which hidden elements of a huge, breathtaking landscape are suddenly made clear

"...Western ground. But Philipp Meyer – author of 2010's American Rust – has something more unusual in mind here...."

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Jaime deBlanc-Knowles

O. Henry Museum to Host Writing Workshop

Mary Helen Specht teaches a Short Story Master Class

"...submit a final draft, which will be reviewed by American Rust author Philipp Meyer. Meyer will choose his favorite..."

Sept. 2, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Paris, 13th District

Love and sex in this Paris-set adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s comics

"...the tonier, trendier areas of the city. Like 2012’s Rust and Bone, Audiard constructs a single narrative from unrelated..."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Heavy Mettle

Fact of Life

"...genuine neglect, and at times direct oppression, of Austin's Mexican-American community by the city's elites. Racism, enviro- and otherwise,..."

March 26, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...that the smell from yours is little more than rust. Get a sense of humor. Don't personalize everything. If..."

July 25, 2003 Column

Lapsis

Bleak but funny look at life at the low end of the high-tech gig economy

"...it's only been 20 years since under half of American households owned a computer. Even on the verge of..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Christmas With the Kranks

Holiday pap and circumstance.

"...Pendleton and Felicity Huffman. It looms, swathed in clanking, rust-flecked chains of pap and circumstance: The black ice rink..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Happenings

March 27-April 3

"...ROBIN HAHNEL The American University economics professor gives two talks questioning the assumption..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Killer cast cuts to the core in this Gen Z Clue riff

"...The slow unraveling of trust throughout Bodies Bodies Bodies feeds into the movie’s tension,..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Small Engine Repair

Toxic masculinity sizzles and pops, leading to a reeling third act

"...the titular shop, being released from prison in the rustier-than-Rust Belt township of Manchester, New Hampshire. Frank’s ability to..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hillbilly Elegy

Redneck rehab drama is better intentioned but more tone-deaf than the book

"...the bat, that Ron Howard's latest slice of middle American misery porn is a Lifetime movie with a bigger..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...C. Robert Cargill has a new novel, Sea of Rust, that's being described as a kind of robot Western;..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

WWJD?

Jesse Sublett's insider guide to Bouchercon.

"...on the "Highlighting New Series" panel (3-4pm), and "Bringing American History to Life" (4:30-5:30pm), with Charles O'Brien (Black Gold)..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Year of the Horse

"...Knows This Is Nowhere, came out, and that quintessentially American, purebred rock & roll band is still deep in..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Happenings

April 10-17

"...12-13. Rhizome Collective, 300 Allen, 385-3695. $150-350 sliding scale. www.rhizomecollective.org/rust.html. SUNDAY 13..."

April 11, 2008 News Feature

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