Kill Your Darlings

Daniel Radcliffe stars as Allen Ginsburg in this sweet and sour story about the loves and collegiate years of some of the Beat writers.

"...Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, David Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Elizabeth Olsen and John..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pregame the Texas Book Festival With These 50 Classics

We haven't crammed this hard since senior lit

"...reader, struck with a chuckle regarding how the much-eulogized David Foster Wallace's work might bring catharsis, is rewarded with..."

Oct. 21, 2013 Books Post by Anne Harris

David Barrow: The Revivalist

Local filmmaker and activist showcases local food movement

"...David Barrow is a busy man. An active supporter of..."

Sept. 25, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

A hardscrabble, heartbreaking, love-and-death affair is gorgeously captured in David Lowery's Texas feature.

"...Directed by: David Lowery. Starring: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, Keith..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Darden Smith

"...Nashville with several fellow travelers and songwriters – Radney Foster, Jay Clementi, Gary Nicholson, Harley Allen – Smith seems..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

UT Acquires McSweeney's Archive

Ransom Center will host first editions, correspondence, and more

"...Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, Nick Hornby, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Foster Wallace, whose personal archive is already a part..."

July 31, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

The Science Delusion

White takes aim at the bold targets of Richard Dawkins and Jonah Lehrer and their ilk

"...previous book, The Middle Mind, is praised, blurbwise, by David Foster Wallace – and who, as if it's insurance..."

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Food-O-File

Austin Bakes for West a winner, plus accolades and openings

"...win $10,000 sometime soon. We're told longtime Austin chef David Garrido will appear on the program in June, and..."

May 10, 2013 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Star Wars Day: Happy May the Fourth, And a Very Merry Revenge of the Fifth

One man's 35 year trip to a galaxy far, far away

"...animated series (Jim Cummings as space pirate Hondo Onaka, David Tennant as padawan-training robot Huyang, and Sam Witwer as..."

May 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Is the Third 'Graphic Canon' a Decent End to the Ambitious Project?

Does this collection of illustrated literary classics succeed?

"...thus the series) would end with an excerpt from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. And it does end with..."

April 22, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Civics 101

"...supports the center's work for the homeless. 5:30-7:30pm. St. David's Episcopal Church, 301 E. Eighth. $120. www.trinitycenteraustin.org...."

April 19, 2013 News Column

Face to Face With Fiction

Five notable authors come to New Fiction Confab

"...comparisons to the "systems novels" of Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace, in which characters flounder in large-scale systems..."

April 12, 2013 Books Feature by Amy Gentry

Changing of the Guard at the Ransom Center

Stephen Enniss steps up to take Thomas Staley's post

"...director in 1988 – including Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, David Mamet, and J.M. Coetzee in the..."

April 8, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Somebody Up There Likes Bob Byington

The writer-director talks about his fifth feature

"...just read a book called The Last Interview with David Foster Wallace. I thought that was a good set..."

April 5, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Ouya: The People's Gaming Console

Could Julie Uhrman's Kickstarted project be the innovation the gaming industry was waiting for?

"...as a force to push existing console manufacturers to foster more indie development, but rather as a mechanism to..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Sean Carey

Gay Place: Welcome to the GAYTX

It's heeeeere: The throng, the buzz, the madness, the Maddow.

"...by the AGLCC and yours truly. The Tipsy Texan, David Allen, has concocted a special floofy BG libation and..."

March 8, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Small Space, Big Honor

Local firm Specht Harpman nominated for Architizer A+ Award

"...a nominee list crowded with architectural giants like Norman Foster (the designer of much-filmed London Skyscraper 30 St Mary..."

Feb. 28, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Chinese New Year in Austin: A Sort of Parallax View

Leng Wong and Cindy Soo tell it like it is

"...thing that reached the apotheosis of its form with David Foster Wallace's 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do..."

Feb. 18, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film: Selected Shorts

From 3,597 submissions, 106 emerge

"...Top Floor Director: Aaron David DeFazio When Ron, a high powered hedge fund manager,..."

Feb. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Food, the City, and Innovation

Rethinking the global food system

"...the food system began with keynote address by Dr. David Edwards, founder of Le Laboratoire in Paris, France, and..."

Feb. 5, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

How Literature Saved David Shields' Life

The author of 'Reality Hunger' dodges those ol' bullets of anomie

"...David Shields, because he didn't kill himself before he finished..."

Feb. 4, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...Computer Chess, Jeff Nichols’ Mud, Yen Tan’s Pit Stop, David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche, and Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Malaise and Methodology

Ann Cvetkovich crafts a radical approach to considering depression

"...with even larger pockets of devotees (Barry, Cornel West, David Foster Wallace) is likely to pique even more interest...."

Jan. 18, 2013 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

The AggreGAYtor: January 14

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Jodie Foster silences the lambs, Bill Donahue joins the bush league,..."

Jan. 14, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Austin Top 10

"...10) David Ramirez, Apologies (Sweetworld) Chase Hoffberger..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Greg Beets

David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview

Melville House issues a collection worth collecting

"...pity is that none of us will ever be David Foster Wallace again...."

Dec. 26, 2012 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Writing's Not on the Wall Yet

Austin's print culture gets a boost from a new batch of indie presses and literary magazines

"...of books A Strange Object will publish, Collins quotes David Foster Wallace's description of fiction that "makes the head..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Not Quite the Usual Holiday Gift Ideas

Something a little different for your loved ones this year

"...North American Nations (O.N.A.N.) as delineated by the late David Foster Wallace in his Infinite Jest. You may recall..."

Dec. 12, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Razzle-Dazzle 'Em

David Bologna on making it to Broadway with 'Billy Elliot'

"...When the Chronicle sat down with David Bologna to talk about his time in the original..."

Dec. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

And I Beheld an Infinite Map

David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest': Mapped and Annotated

"...depicting the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.) from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest...."

Dec. 10, 2012 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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