Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...News Editor Michael King responded to my letter in the May 6 Chronicle ["Postmarks"] clarifying that..."

May 13, 2005 Column

Letters at 3AM

Our Ecstatic Days' is that rarest of creatures: a great novel. The first great American novel of the 21st century. Steve Erickson has discovered the secret of creating a novel that is not a book but an organism. Proust did it. Joyce almost did it. Faulkner sometimes did it. Marquez did it. Yes, that's the company Steve's keeping in Our Ecstatic Days.'

"...Angeles novelist. She devoured the book; when it was my turn to read it she said something like, "This..."

March 4, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two

Critical response to Kill Bill ignores the current cultural resonance of cinematic vengeance.

"...cut to fit. But I hadn't finished working out my thoughts. It turned out I had to, so expect..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I would like to register my complaint concerning the plans for Fifth/Sixth & Lamar. In..."

July 26, 2002 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...Thanks to Amy Smith for last week's excellent "You Call This a..."

June 21, 2002 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...her numbers because of money is completely misleading in my opinion. Obviously, most citizens feel that Beverly is far..."

April 19, 2002 Column

Blood and Guts and Dirt and Joy

Michael Miller may appear at first meeting to be withdrawn, but he is absolutely present onstage and off, and his willingness to "get dirty" with his characters and continuous challenge to himself to be better make this seemingly reserved actor one of Austin's best.

"...just sitting in the audience to see him act. My first experience directing Miller was at UT, where I..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Spit Out the Seeds

Lucinda Williams bares all

"...question I get asked most is, how's your sex life?..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Pills, Thrills, and Bellyaches

Irvine Welsh's first novel 'Trainspotting' is one of the most successful first novels in recent history, but in this interview with Chronicle writer Marc Savlov, Welsh, whose new novel 'Glue' brings him to BookPeople on Monday, June 18, at 7pm, admits to thinking that "you had to be a bit strange to be a writer, to sit in your room, spending all this time with people that don't actually exist, you know?"

"...For all the brouhaha surrounding Welsh's take-no-prisoners lifestyle, it's easy sometimes to forget that he's first and..."

June 15, 2001 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...doesn't want his age in this article ("Why does my age have to be in it? Women don't have..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postmarks

Further Lost Austin fallout and enviro-rhetoric from our readers.

"...to protecting what was left? In the pocket of fuckin' Kirk "mob-ties, dot.com whore" Watson! From day one supporting..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Hey, who put a vegetarian in my aquifer?

"...is part of what causes our underfunding problem (in my opinion). And I don't know that the Art and..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column

Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"...and so on. This was before the Ramones. Then my sister in Houston found this drawing in an attic..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Book Reviews

"...gone." 30 is a surprisingly domestic novel, chronicling the life of a man in relationship to his family. Bookbinder's..."

July 30, 1999 Books Review

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Hysteria Doomed Plan

"...Annie Street before I got married and moved. On my last night there, I loaded every stitch of clothing..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Column

Ovid's Myths: the Roman Nose in Exile: Merry Metamorphosis

Exhibitionism

"...sculpting a play accessible to toddlers from language sometimes mystifying even to college students. The result is Clay Nichols'..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Arts Review

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

Charles Whitman in the UT Tower

"...officers, "How much do you think I'll get for my memoirs?"..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

Isherwood Excerpted

"...which the other partner was more deeply involved than myself, and I kept a second, third and fourth choice..."

April 4, 1997 Books Feature

Live Shots

"...seething, boiling sexual frenzy as fierce as a particularly steamy romp between the sheets, but the only thing wet..."

July 12, 1996 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

"...give you a bit of a personal update on myself. No, I don't mean a list of my favorite..."

July 14, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Luv Doc: An Absolute Nightmare

If this was happening to someone you really care about...

"...I have been with my (live-in) girlfriend for three years. I have known since..."

Jan. 24, 2025 Column by The Luv Doc

International Musicians Keep Austin’s Scene Alive, but They Struggle to Stay

Putting the “world” in Live Music Capital of the World

"...Electric Lady Studios,” he said. “I mean, what the fuck would I have thought? That was my hero.”..."

Nov. 29, 2024 News Feature by Benton Graham

Trial of APD Officer Will Be One of the Most Consequential in Austin History

Here’s what it could mean for our city and for how law enforcement is held accountable

"...him every day. His killing left a hole in my heart that I will always carry with me. I..."

Oct. 20, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

A Tale of a Whale: Shanon Weaver on Playing and Watching Charlie

Austin artist Shanon Weaver shares his experience playing Charlie and watching Brendan Fraser play the same part in The Whale

"...In 2014, my since-disbanded theatre company – A Chick & a Dude..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Shanon Weaver

“It’s Like a Family Business, Except Rock Stars”: The Kindred Bond of We Don’t Ride Llamas

Afro rock sibling band is defiantly unconventional on new EP The Oracle

"...personally, it took only a few frustrated whacks upside my little sister's shins with nylon-tipped imitation drumsticks for my..."

April 29, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, August 6-12

"...quivering wings of one dream, two-voiced lips of single mysteries. We are two arms of a single cross."..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Five Graphic Novels That Will Supercharge Your Sequential Existence

A smattering of comics to keep your eyes busy

"...at times, photorealism ... not because presenting the inner life of a domestic varmint in its own words is..."

May 21, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Luv Doc: Constant Correction

You can surely do better than 20/20

"...My girlfriend is a living autocorrect, and it's really annoying...."

Nov. 1, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

The Luv Doc: Get in the Shower

If someone offers you a breath mint, you take the fucking breath mint

"...Me and my girlfriend have been fighting more and more since we..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Playback: Seth Gibbs Promises to Fight

Cancer stricken pop savant crafts his NOT-posthumous album

"...believed he was in the best shape of his life. He'd started exercising and stopped drinking. Then a big..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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