Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...Writer Edwin "Bud" Shrake, who passed away last week after a battle..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Bud Shrake: Touched by an Angel?

Bud Shrake has been communing with angels since he was a child, but why?

"...First, the news: Bud Shrake has been communing with angels since he was..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Texas legend Edwin "Bud" Shrake loses battle with cancer

Bud Shrake (Strange Peaches) dies at 77

"...Texas writer Edwin "Bud" Shrake passed away this morning at an Austin-area hospital,..."

May 8, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

May 15, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...– Edwin "Bud" Shrake, Blessed McGill..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

The Insider's Outsider Guide to Texas

Remembering Bud Shrake

"...It's difficult to talk about Edwin "Bud" Shrake, who died on May 8 at the age..."

May 15, 2009 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Blessed Deliverance

The Borderland, Bud Shrake's Latest Tall Tale

"...The Borderland: A Novel of Texasby Edwin Shrake..."

March 31, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Riding the 'Wave'

Bud Shrake compacts his far-flung, storied career in his new collection

"...who go to New York as professional Texans," Edwin "Bud" Shrake says. "But I'm just an accidental Texan. By..."

April 25, 2008 Books Feature by Spencer Parsons

Straight From the Horse's Mouth

Revisiting Bud Shrake's 1985 interview with the Chronicle

"...Writer Edwin "Bud" Shrake, who passed away last week after a battle..."

May 15, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

From Mad Dogs to Mister Golf

Bud Shrake, continued

"...In this extended outtake from the print version, Shrake talks about being a Texas writer and reflects on..."

April 25, 2008 Books Feature by Spencer Parsons

A League of Their Own

"...Bud Shrake photograph by Todd V. Wolfson Nowadays there's so..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Notes on Mad Dogs

If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."

"...These notes are for Bud Shrake...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

That Wild Man

Gary Cartwright: The mad, mad, mad life of a Texas wordsmith

"...Barr going back to his Army discharge when a buddy and he showed up in Dallas at Abe Weinstein's..."

June 26, 2015 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Making Lists

"...much more than a rustic nature writer, Austin novelist Bud Shrake, and a group of McMurtry's bad-boy contemporaries: Max..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Page Two

There is no other place in the country, outside of New York and L.A., with the same quality and quantity of filmmaking and filmmakers as Austin

"...Considering the budgets of studio projects that have been shot in Austin..."

March 12, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: The Immersion Method

Dream double bills and the great and simple pleasure of film viewing

"...Bud Shrake is a great writer and a Texas treasure...."

May 2, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

When Gravity Fails: Notes on the influence of Ed Lowry, 'Crazy Mama,' and not sweating the small stuff

"...Sayles and Demme. I contribute a long interview with Bud Shrake, not only one of the finest writers and..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

Here in filmtown, 'Slacker' is on DVD (finally) and 'Louisiana Boys' is on 'SXSW Presents.' Meanwhile, despite the lack of a Hussein connection, the Iraq war is a triumph for the 9 / 11 terrorists and their co-conspirators.

"...Eagle Pennell, Tobe Hooper, David Schmoeller, William Wittliff, Edwin "Bud" Shrake, Terrence Malick, Warren Skaaren, Robert Burns, Cary White,..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...Worth and Dallas sportswriters that included Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake. The early Sixties were a period when sportswriters..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

The Pen-Ultimate Fest

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference & Festival

"...Free-for-all with Dennis Hopper, Bud Shrake and Oliver Stone photograph by Minh..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Page Two

Close your eyes in Portland, and it sounds a lot like Austin.

"...of Songwriter and Barbarosa at the Paramount with Nelson, Bud Shrake, and William Wittliff in attendance. It would be..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Texas Book Festival Wrap-Up

"...due to its brilliant stable of writers. (Plimpton and Shrake's colleagues included Dan Jenkins, Roy Blount Jr, and Frank..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Books Feature

In Memoriam: Gary Cartwright

Time to "Turn Out the Lights" for the Texas Mad Dog writer

"...Dallas Times Herald, and Fort Worth Press (where he, Bud Shrake, and Dan Jenkins formed the infield power trio..."

March 2, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Temples and Playgrounds

Previewing the 2007 Texas Book Festival, Nov. 3-4

"...Custer's Brother's Horseby Edwin Shrake John M. Hardy Publishing, 320 pp., $24.95..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

In Memory of Dennis Hopper

'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'

"...cult classic Kid Blue (D: James Frawley, script by Bud Shrake; 1973), Neil Young: Human Highway (1982), and crazed..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Straight From the Horse's Mouth

The Chron's 1985 interview with Bud Shrake

"...We'll have a proper tribute to Bud Shrake in our Thursday print issue, but in the..."

May 11, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

2008 Texas Book Festival

"...Bud Shrake (Land of the Permanent Wave: An Edwin "Bud"..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Books Feature

Value Appreciation

The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards enters its fourth year

"...gifted. If there were a Mount Rushmore of screenwriting, Bud Shrake's face would be up there in stone. Having..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Short Cuts

SXSW Film 04 is here. Where are you?

"...Advocate), to be inducted by Treat Williams; screenwriter Edwin "Bud" Shrake, inducted by Dennis Hopper; and actor/director/producer/ ghost dog..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Starry Night

Texas Film Hall of Famers announced

"...Texas Natives Judith Ivey Dennis Quaid Bud Shrake Forest Whitaker Honorary Texan Robert Duvall Frontier Award..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature

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