Short Stories

From Hollywood to Austin and beyond: the rise and rise of short film online

"...doctored that and other photos to create a rudimentary short film in which the players in the debacle were..."

May 5, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Worthy Stories

Third place, the 13th Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...to tell. Zhenya, she's got dozens (dozens!) of worthy stories. They rise in her sweet mouth, and the words..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Books Feature by Katie Williams

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.

"...is better known for his gracefully interwoven collection of short stories, The Things They Carried, which follows a group..."

April 28, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

To Make a Long Story Short

"...phrase appears to be, "To make a long story short," it's a given that each and every gig has..."

April 2, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

A Conversation with Stephen Harrigan Telling Ghost Stories

"...Stephen Harrigan: I guess the easy answer is both. I think in one..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Arts Feature by Robin Bradford

Bedtime Stories That Bite Back

Jennifer Kent discusses horror debut The Babadook

"...Austin Chronicle: Your first short film, "Monster," is up on YouTube, so we had..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Guess Again: Short Stories

"...Guess Again: Short Storiesby Bernard Cooper..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Books Review by Martin Wilson

Safety in Words

If there is drama in Laura Furman's stories, Robin Bradford writes, it is not usually the life and death kind. It is the daily, wearing, ineffable drama of living as a human island among others who invariably seem more attractive, more connected, or simply more "normal."

"...that for a moment I'm part of. Laura Furman's stories, with their sharp detail, sense of personal history, and..."

April 20, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...much younger but equally renowned Square Books stands a shorter man, mostly, but standing up straight in conversation with..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...The big blowout happened when Bob posted a short list titled "How to Kill the Chronicle." It outlined..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Storyteller

Talking turkey with X-Ray

"...as The Storyteller and author of a book of short stories and his "unauthorized" autobiography, X-Ray...."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

In Memoriam: George Wilkerson

Remembering Esther's Follies' first sketch-writing superstar

"...legal writing, and as co-author of the textbook Analyzing Short Stories; in the latter as a writer and editor..."

June 17, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Mule Conversations

"...full circle. If I was coming full circle, I guess I'd move back to the town I grew up..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Moore Is Better

"..."Jimmy Buffett." This is why, when Lorrie Moore's new short story collection, Birds of America (Alfred A. Knopf, $22.50..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Books Review by Marion Winik

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

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

"...his recent book tour for his new collection of short stories, Woodcuts of Women, tumbled out of his mouth:..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Stages of Inebriation

To drink or not to drink – for local thespians, no question

"...Want to hear some good drinking stories? Ask theatre people. Between their research for playing soused..."

July 3, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Uncle Blubbafink

Keith Graves, the author of seriously ridiculous stories like Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, is garnering Hollywood’s attention, but did he ever want it?

"...Former Grande Dame of the Republic, Ann Richards, in shorts, T-shirt, and sunglasses, hops up on the sidewalk and..."

June 8, 2001 Books Feature by Raoul Hernandez

In Real Life: Cory Doctorow

Wearing goggles or not, he's in town for the Texas Teen Book Festival

"...Austin Chronicle: Cory, your short story “Anda’s Game” that In Real Life is based..."

Oct. 15, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

National Treasure

Reflections on John Sayles' America

"...strong political sensibility and a determination to tell the stories Hollywood rarely touches) is an abbreviated body of work...."

May 13, 2011 Books Feature by Louis Black

If or When I Call: Will Johnson Discusses His Debut Novel

Long-held itch harvests the road, autobiography, and compassion

"...WJ: It started with a short story called “Renewal.” I wrote it down in Mexico..."

April 9, 2021 Music Post by Matt White

Give Us News, STAT!

Clooney's Cute, But Not After 10pm

"...lead with ER, but it ran through the top stories quickly -- let's get it out of the way,..."

Oct. 10, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...in Austin, at the top of the state's admittedly short media food chain but still neck-deep in the turbulent..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Strength of Character

Like John Irving, Peter Hedges can create characters with such depth and originality it’s as if you have spent a lifetime in search of their company.

"...Peter Hedges writes stories about the people that Hollywood forgot: like the mother..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Crossing Literary Borders

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

"...Death Trip series, a loosely linked collection of 13 short novels set in mythical Belken County, a county situated..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

Katherine Catmull at the Texas Teen Book Festival

Like a fairy in her YA novel The Radiant Road, Katherine Catmull keeps transforming the mundane into lovely art

"...AC: You write in short form for The Cabinet of Curiosities (now collected in..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

FF2011: 'No Rest for the Wicked' (or for Ryan Schifrin)

How to build a short into a franchise

"...feature films and hard partying: It is also about short films, those acorns that might grow into might acorns...."

Oct. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Chronicle is now advocating ongoing tolls throughout Central Texas? Guess you guys are closer to special interests than you..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column

From the Archives: Linklater on Linklater

Our 1991 self-interview by the Slacker filmmaker

"...why everybody doesn't do a movie like this. I guess we just got lucky that it all fit together..."

July 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Linklater

The Dead Climb on Top of You

Third Place winner

"..."I guess I do." The truth was. I did, I'd leave..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by P. Tyson Midkiff

Junior High Spy

"...high school I had always been interested in writing short stories and whatnot. A friend and I would write..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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