The Fifth Estate

It's the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks before they became household names.

"...story that is draped in what are very nearly science-fiction affectations. Still, the film seems to grow smaller rather..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Keene Prize Winners Announced

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig takes home $50,000 for her play Lidless

"...grads and two current Michener MFA candidates made the shortlist, with Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig winning the top prize for..."

July 24, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

You Can't Go Home Again

Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett on why James Crumley, whose mystery The Final Country has recently been published, is the best writer from Texas to disown the state.

"...been practically without peer. He's not the most prolific American crime writer, but crime fiction aficionados have learned that,..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Telling War Stories

National Book Award winner and SWT professor Tim O'Brien is real. He's blunt. But he's also, according to Chronicle editor Sarah Hepola, responsible for her hangover.

"...Although I count myself an avid fan of his fiction, Tim O'Brien is, on the morning of my hangover,..."

April 28, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...Truman Show, Robert Redford's intelligent reworking of romantic pulp fiction in The Horse Whisperer, and Steven Spielberg's non-Jurassic war..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Neil Gaiman's Greatest Delights

Author Neil Gaiman brings his Dreamy self to Austin on Friday the 13th

"...for decades now. The author of the bestselling novels American Gods and The Graveyard Book, the movies Coraline and..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Book Festival 2015: The Mighty 300

Authors for Fest 20 include Lethem, Lemony, Pitts, Diggs, Hart

"...Solitude, will be on hand to discuss his latest short fiction collection, Lucky Alan and Other Stories. Pulitzer Prize-winning..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Sundance Announces Shorts Program

Texans get the nod

"...Sundance announced its 2010 short film program yesterday, and a handful of Texans made..."

Dec. 8, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Based on the allegedly autobiographical short stories of alleged teen author J.T. Leroy, Asia Argento's film describes a Gothic maelstrom of psychic and physical abuse.

"...brilliance. The movie is based on the allegedly autobiographical short stories of teen author J.T. Leroy, a real-life nonentity..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Shorts at Sundance

David Lowery and the Zellner Bros. to do the 'Dance

"...get us wrong – we're sweet on their hilarious shorts, too – but the notoriously plays-hard-to-get film festival seems..."

Dec. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Cine Las Americas Schedule

"...Hip Hop 101 features short films and panels about hip-hop culture and its influences..."

April 12, 2002 Screens Feature

Remembrance of Texas Past

The Year in Texas Lit

"...Almost three years ago, McMurtry decided he'd written enough fiction for one lifetime, and declared that he wouldn't be..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postscripts

Paredes Memorial

"...scholar, writer, and founder of UT's Center for Mexican American Studies, died Wednesday, May 5; a public memorial service..."

May 21, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Texas Book Festival 2014: The Full Party List

Among the 275 authors: Oates, Ellroy, Mosley, Lear, Dean

"...the shelves Sept. 30, the festival's heavy hitters of fiction include the astonishingly prolific Joyce Carol Oates, whose latest..."

Sept. 11, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

First Authors Announced for Texas Book Festival

Marquee names run the gamut from Amis to Ziggy

"...eight guests cover the spectrum of the book world: fiction to nonfiction, local to international, new authors to old..."

July 25, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

At Least Five Things You Should Know About, I Mean, If You Were Counting

The bimonthly literary/art/performative series Five Things happens Friday at the Art Authority

"...fyi, won second place in our last Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest for his terrific story "May the Passenger..."

June 3, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Postscripts

Finally: Somebody in the publishing industry actually says something funny about eBooks!

"...within 24 hours. For answers to specific questions requiring short, factual information, access www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/reflink.htm. For questions that pertain to..."

July 21, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Postscripts

Benefits

"...will be awarded in each of three categories -- fiction, nonfiction, and poetry/prose (which includes essay and short fiction)..."

April 23, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Other Worlds Boards the Flight of the Navigator

Beloved '80s sci fi adventure picked as Defender of the Universe

"...Other Worlds Film Festival, Austin's celebration of science fiction cinema and bleeding edge horror, breaks back into reality..."

Dec. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Of Barbecue and Vampires

An interview with Todd Lowe, True Blood's Terry Bellefleur

"...Short order cook. War vet. Loving husband, daddy, and step-daddy...."

June 13, 2013 Screens Post by R.U. Steinberg

Short Cuts

A butcher, a baker, a police officer, a newscaster, a phone-sex-operator mom, a dead-beat dad, and a cheat. Ray Carver and a confused audience. A Best Director nomination for Robert Altman.

"...Short Cuts Criterion, $39.95..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

In Person: Robert Greer

Dashiell Hammet and Chester Himes in a Pickup Truck

"...reader to fresh situations and points of view in short chapters so deftly conceived that many of them easily..."

April 11, 1997 Books Feature

International Competition

Fiction Shorts

"...Short film may be suffering a crisis of distribution these..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Book Reviews

Reviews of Recent Fiction and Nonfiction

"...published a study on laughter in the January 1996 American Scientist that threw important light on the enigmas of..."

May 19, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Pioneer Grit and Newfangled Novels

Debra Monroe's Hill Country Life

"...editor. I knew that Monroe had two critically acclaimed short story collections out, and now a new novel that..."

April 17, 1998 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

The Future Is Transhuman

Inside GenEnCo’s new production The Future of Ismael

"...Science fiction often asks its audience to imagine a future where..."

Nov. 13, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Charlie Mangan

Top Books of 2018 That Make the Past Present

Whether in biography, graphic novel, crime fiction, or retold Greek myths, these books brought history to life

"...Weimar Republic years follows a mix of historical and fictional characters, including art students, poets, black American jazz musicians,..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

Crawl With the Authors of Your Favorite Books

The Texas Book Festival's Lit Crawl gets weird & boozy with 'em

"...Getting Personal with A Public Space & PEN American Center The White Horse, 500 Comal Bring your questions..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Winners

"...UT-Austin with a master's degree in creative writing. This short story is an excerpt from her first novel...."

Feb. 10, 2012 Books Feature

Big Names in Lit Hit Austin

Egan. Franzen. Boom.

"...Last year it seemed the two fiction books that best nailed the American zeitgeist and most..."

Oct. 13, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

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