Little Black Book

This is what happens when the "don't ask, don't tell" policy fails young lovers.

"...Stephen Tobolowsky, Kevin Sussman, Rashida Jones and Josie Maran. Little Black Book immediately posits itself as a not-your-run-of-the-mill romantic..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

Punk rock as L.A. lit no less than Charles Bukowski and Raymond Chandler

"...Alvin notes the uneasy injection of American roots, and Black Flag's Henry Rollins and the Minutemen's Mike Watt pinpoint..."

June 17, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Texas Jailhouse Music: A Prison Band History

Even the Texas state prison system proved an incubator for the Lone Star soundtrack

"...solitary confinement and forced female sterilization. Central to the book are the inmates. From cold-blooded murderers to death-row prisoners..."

June 17, 2016 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

"A man who carries the troubled history of an entire people on his back and a 24-piece band and three radio stations to boot cannot find peace"

"...James Brown? James McBride – journalist, jazz saxophonist, National Book Award winner – complicates the query instead of clarifying..."

June 17, 2016 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Living Like a Runaway

Runaways guitarist kisses and tells deadly

"...from "Kiss (and tell) Me Deadly" metal paramours Ritchie Blackmore, Glenn Tipton, Tony Iommi, and Nikki Sixx (even Jon..."

June 17, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Stick It! My Life of Sex, Drums, and Rock & Roll

Rod Stewart mispronounced the session basher's name, but Carmine Appice survived nonetheless

"...with his equally famous brother Vinnie, who drummed for Black Sabbath, while Carmine anchored Ozzy Osbourne and everyone else...."

June 17, 2016 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...Fall just got a little closer, readers, not in a meteorological sense but a..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Black Dahlia

Brian De Palma returns with a new crime thriller drawn from James Ellroy's fictional account of the notorious Los Angeles murder of a would-be Hollywood starlet dubbed the Black Dahlia.

"...Ms. Short is better known these days as the Black Dahlia, tough-guy steno for the LAPD's most infamous unsolved..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...newly announced list of authors for the 2016 Texas Book Festival. With 280 authors on board – among them..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...literary banquet of the year is over. The Texas Book Festival has announced the full menu of authors on..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more

"...John Hodgman will all be at the 2019 Texas Book Festival, along with over 300 other authors, all of..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...Texas Book Festival No. 25 – aka Virtual Texas Book Festival..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

A gentle, poetic look at gentrification that shimmers with the winds of history

"...The Last Black Man in San Francisco, already one of the most..."

June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Mass

Johnny Depp plays the notorious South Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger

"...year.) Fictionalized depictions of murderous crime bosses have a little rope to play with; the distance from true-life means..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Black Hawk Down

"...adapted by Ken Nolan from journalist Mark Bowden's bestselling book of the same name) and retools it as a..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Michelle Tea Brings Her Latest Book to UT

Iconic queer memoirist reflects on her past and future writing career

"...has penned everything from cult classics like Valencia and Black Wave to Modern Tarot,p a how-to guide on taroting..."

Oct. 24, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Texas Book Festival Lineup Revealed

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

"...The Texas Book Festival announced its 2012 slate today, featuring big hitters..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Bill Minutaglio on Black Texas

UT journalism prof to talk Tuesday in San Marcos

"...Minutaglio, who will be signing and discussing his new book – In Search of the Blues: A Journey to..."

April 26, 2010 Books Post by Michael King

It's Free Comic Book Day

The where, what and how of comic collectors' favorite Saturday

"...in May on their calendar, because it's Free Comic Book Day. No, really. Today is the day that comic..."

May 5, 2012 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

APL's Book Club Reboot

Austin Public Library gets hip with their Downtown Book Clubs

"...You don't need to tell us that talking about books is a hip way to pass the time, but..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Black Like Who?

Baratunde Thurston lightens up the conversation on race, technology, and social change

"...Caucasian Chronicle, sight unseen, the white-cover version his new book, How To Be Black (which also comes with a..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

A Browner Shade of Black

Blazing trails of Chicano soul

"...became the most potent music mix to draw from black, white, and brown cultures. It also turned into the..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Black, White, and Unequal?

"...be a white player in a game dominated by blacks. Discussing the fact that whites were often inferior to..."

Aug. 15, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Mat Johnson: Black & White & Read All Over

Our interview with the Houston-based author

"...Note: Johnson had written a few books before those two, yes, and – here, that's what..."

June 18, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sci-Fi Book Reviews

Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace

"...team (unemployed, white, hetero-, oil rig worker and unemployed, black, homo-, bouncer at the Hot Cat Club) seem compelled..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature

In Black and White

Jesse Jackson and Tom Wicker

"...the statement that "the continuing separation of whites and blacks into hostile and unequal classes... is the fundamental cause..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Books Feature

A Local Pick for Free Comic Book Day

Creators of Punchline offer a super-powered narrative

"...quite happily, with dozens and dozens of free comic books...."

May 1, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Black Sheep Boys

Okkervil River navigates the headwaters of its career

"..."A black sheep boy dissolves in hot cream,..."

April 1, 2005 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Texas Book Festival 2020: Mychal Denzel Smith

A conversation with the author of Stakes Is High

"...Eventually, he was able to collect them into the book Stakes Is High...."

Nov. 4, 2020 Arts Post by Evan Rodriguez

Edward Carey's Portrait of Madame Tussaud in Little

The Austin author both writes about and illustrates the grand, strange life of the waxworks queen

"...There's an inherent humor to a book titled Little that's over 400 pages long. But then..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

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