Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

"...Robb Walsh, The Hot Sauce Cookbook and Barbecue Crossroads Joe Yonan, Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

LoneStarCon 3: Friday

Who knew the 'War of the Worlds' had its last stand in San Antonio?

"...and getting a hilarious introduction to Texas Weird from Joe Lansdale, William Browning Spencer, Don Webb, Peggy Hailey, and..."

Aug. 31, 2013 Books Post by Robert Faires

Lone Star State of Mind

Neal Barrett Jr.'s characters, clues, and unparalleled career

"...superstition-tinged realm of Texas fiction by his good friend Joe R. Lansdale. Sometimes Barrett has been placed in a..."

June 7, 2013 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Lights Go Down at South Lamar

Final night at the Alamo Drafthouse mothership

"...the Alamo Village for a special screening for writer Joe Lansdale, Coscarelli was one of the first film makers..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Michael Madsen, Last of the Warrior Poets

Mr. Blonde on poetry, hats, and 'Reservoir Dogs'

"...actor Lawrence Tierney through his big scene, where gangster Joe Cabot gives his jewelry heist crew their nicknames...."

Dec. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Murder and Football

East Texas visits Bobcat Stadium

"...Southern gothic. It’s the hometown of famed pulp novelist Joe Lansdale, who has made a career of highlighting the..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Spotlight on Texas Book Festival Authors

Taking a look back at the 'Chronicle's coverage so far

"...Joe Lansdale (Edge of Dark Water) http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/books/2012-04-03/joe-lansdale-his-ownself-at-bookpeople/..."

Sept. 13, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival Lineup Revealed

Attendees include Junot Díaz, Cheryl Strayed, and... Tony Danza?

"...of Cowgirls and Ranch Women of the American West) Joe Lansdale (Edge of Dark Water) Hope Larson (A Wrinkle..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Everything Went Black: Rewriting Sight & Sound's Top Ten

What, no Polanski?

"...too. Just ask Stephen King or Texas's own genre-warper, Joe R. Lansdale.)..."

Aug. 29, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Getting Your ArmadilloCon On

Annual gathering for sci-fi writers and fans begins today

"...Gibson, Jonathan Lethem, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Moon, Charlaine Harris, Joe R. Lansdale, and Bruce Sterling...."

July 27, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts

Late-night Southern gothic from an insomniac

"...is that half the time it reads like a Joe R. Lansdale novel. It's got that bone-deep East Texas/Arkansas..."

June 15, 2012 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Bernie

Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey star in Richard Linklater's latest film – an East Texas true-crime story with a comic touch.

"...swear this film adaptation was based on one of Joe R. Lansdale's East Texas gothics. As ever, truth proves..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joe Lansdale, His Ownself, at Bookpeople

Joe Lansdale at Book People Thurs, April 5

"...pine for new work from Texas's own national treasure, Joe R. Lansdale, Nacogdoches native and genre-defying literary genius nonpareil...."

April 3, 2012 Books Post by Marc Savlov

Texas Book Festival

First look at the TBF lineup

Sept. 9, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: Hell on Earth

Dark literature in dark times, plus a plea for casting sanity

"...in this pile are two traditional word-on-word volumes. After Joe Lansdale, the king of East Texas Gothic, mentioned a..."

Sept. 6, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Steam Versus Cyber at ArmadilloCon

Bruce Sterling joins this weekend's sci-fi/fantasy literary event

"...series of readings from veterans like Neal Barrett, Jr. Joe Lansdale and Emma Bull, whose novel War for the..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Chris the Conqueror

Chris Roberson takes on Superman, Elric, Captain Kirk, and Cinderella – and wins

"...such literary leviathans as Batman scribe Denny O'Neil and Joe Lansdale, the king of West Texas gothic. "I started..."

July 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Stickmen With Ray Guns

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Steam

"...arrival of none other than Nacogdoches mucho mojo badass Joe R. Lansdale his ownself, NOLA's gender-and-genre-bending Poppy Z. Brite,..."

April 29, 2011 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Fear Knows No Limits

Steve Niles' cross-platform experiments in terror

"...be for the best: Fellow World Horror Con guest Joe R. Lansdale has said it can be better to..."

April 29, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The World Horror Convention? In Austin!

Lend us your fears

"...Straub and F. Paul Wilson and Sarah Langan and Joe Hill and Sandra Kasturi and Joe R. Lansdale, all..."

April 26, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

2010 Texas Book Festival

Lone Star Noir

"...repaid. In Nacogdoches, the king of East Texas gothic Joe Lansdale unleashes the bounty hunters in "Six-Finger Jack," while..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

Armadillocon To The Future!

Sci-fi gathering readies for 2011

"...Kasey Lansdale, daughter of the king of Nacogdoches Gothic Joe R...."

Sept. 1, 2010 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Dark Forces Gathering

ArmadilloCon 32

"...toastmaster Howard Waldrop and the king of Nacogdoches Gothic, Joe Lansdale, rub shoulders with youngbloods like Austin-based comics writer..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Geek Shall Inherit the Fests

Austin becomes ground zero for the new cool

"...artists (Gary Friedrich [Ghost Rider, Greg Horn [Blackest Night], Joe Madureira [Uncanny X-Men]); Pro-wrestlers (Bushwacker Luke, The Honky-Tonk Man,..."

July 4, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Nacogdoches Gothic

Joe R. Lansdale talks Bubba horror at Feral Cinema (Video)

"...screening of Bubba Ho-Tep, complete with an appearance by Joe R. Lansdale, you missed the opportunity to hang out..."

June 19, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Farewell to the Cathedral of Junk

City rules and city art clash, art comes off worse

"...then the United States Art Authority (hosting Texas author Joe R. Lansdale June 16) got caught up in red..."

June 16, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Feral Lansdale

Joe Lansdale heading to Austin, and Bubba's comin' with him

"...up an chance to drink in the presence of Joe Lansdale. On June 16 the king of East Texas..."

June 8, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Joe Lansdale's 2011 Plans

Mucho Mojo author talks World Horror Con, Michael Moorcock, and film plans

"...definitely be attending is the author with Mucho Mojo, Joe Lansdale. "I'm the toast master," he explained recently, "so..."

April 4, 2010 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...Joe Lansdale was 4 when his father bought him a..."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale

Lansdale is Lansdale, his ownself, sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable

"...SANCTIFIED AND CHICKEN-FRIED: THE PORTABLE LANSDALEby Joe R. Lansdale University of Texas Press, 212 pp.,..."

June 26, 2009 Books Review by Marc Savlov

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