Call and Answer

It's been a hard spring of politics in Texas; now it's time to relax with a book.

"...the first general market English publication of his 1997 memoir of his return home...."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Book Review

When it comes to coming of age novels, "Manuel Luis Martinez's protagonist, Robert Lomos, is a bit different, and Martinez's first novel, Drift, is, too. Robert moves, all right -- from San Antonio to Los Angeles and back -- but his erratic path in the footprints of Martinez's expert narrative one is anything but linear." Martinez will be at the Cepeda Branch Library on Wednesday, June 4, at 7pm.

"...growing up; what often results is nothing more than memoir with grad school devices plugged into the works (or,..."

May 30, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

News/Print

No Whammies.

"...Books, $13.95), Joel Turnipseed (Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir, Borealis Books, $22.95), Neal Pollack (Beneath the Axis of..."

May 9, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

WILL@epicqwest.com

SWT creative writing director Tom Grimes' new novel: an excerpt

"...World, stand out. His latest effort, WILL@epicqwest.com (a medicated memoir), will be released in May by Ludlow Press ($12.95,..."

April 25, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Book Review: Dark Star Safari

Journey through Africa and the life of author Paul Theroux in his novel Dark Star Safari.

"...the readers of Dark Star Safari, his new travel memoir of his overland journey from Cairo to Capetown, will..."

April 11, 2003 Books Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Book Reviews

James McWilliams reviews Hugh Thomson's The White Rock.

"...From the outset, this memoir-cum-travelogue devolves into a series of trite exclamations whereby the..."

March 14, 2003 Books Feature by James McWilliams

News/Print

You'd better believe it!

"...a former UT writing teacher, will discuss his literary memoir Do I Owe You Something? (LSU) and his new..."

March 14, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Spotlight: Joe Jackson Band

On the 25th anniversary of Look Sharp!, Joe Jackson remains the man.

"...1999, "a book about music thinly disguised as a memoir," according to Jackson...."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Nasdijj Reviewed

"More than the inherent unfairness of life, Nasdijj is angry at man's cruelty and a culture which fosters the abuse of the young," writes Michael Robertson. And as a writer, he "rough-hews the English language until it takes stunning forms."

"...is not an ordinary addition to the already crowded AIDS-memoir shelf. Nasdijj rough-hews the English language until it takes..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Books Feature by Michael Robertson

It's a Wonderful Life

The Austin Film Society presents an evening in celebration of Sam Fuller.

"...his biggest and best yarn would be his own memoir. But he also knew that he didn't want to..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Atonement, Etc. -- Top 10-plus, Special 2002 bonus edition

Books for which we confess our true feelings, reconsider our disdain, or finally find room: top 10-plus, 2002 edition …

"...A smart, swift blend of memoir and poetry, To Be the Poet (Harvard University) gives..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Books Feature

It's the Thoughts That Count

To essay meaning

"...$19.95), feminist writer and thinker Bia Lowe presents a memoir-laced compendium of love's risks, rewards, and reveries. After years..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

It's the Thoughts That Count

Franzen after the frenzy

"...("Lost in the Mail," "Control Units") to painful family memoir ("My Father's Brain") to highbrow literary manifesto ("Why Bother")...."

Dec. 6, 2002 Books Feature by Russell Cobb

TV Eye

The story CNN broke, and the story that broke CNN into the big leagues of television journalism.

"...Based on the memoir by former CNN Senior Executive Producer Robert Wiener, the..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Food-o-File

Bragging rights and the latest flavors round out this week's "Food-o-File."

"...Continuum," originally appeared in the Chronicle as a summer-food memoir. Our newest contributing writer, Claudia Alarcón, is currently involved..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Big Mischief

Like the protagonist in his latest novel, Miss Spellbinder's Point of View, novelist Edward Swift is still battling the "disease of the literal minded."

"...house perched on shifting sand. But according to his memoir of childhood, My Grandfather's Finger (1999), poverty was not..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

bee luther-hatchee

It's rare for a piece of theatre staged in Austin to touch an issue close to the city's heart, and that immediacy by itself recommends bee luther-hatchee. But what makes the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production more worthy of attention is the skill with which it serves up the thorny issues authenticity of voice and artistic representation by people of different cultures.

"...series its greatest success: the selfsame Libby Price, whose memoir became a bestseller, won a major award, and spoke..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Paul Minor & the Superego Allstars

Texas Platters

"...as a result Low Overhead resonates more as a memoir of a dying scene than for anything musical. One..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Fright or Flight

Screenwriter Evan Hunter will be in attendance at the Paramount screening of The Birds, his 1963 collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock.

"...enough to serve as the basis of his 1997 memoir Me and Hitch -- The Birds was their only..."

July 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Short Cuts

Sidney Brammer | Alleywood Auteurs | Ninth Annual CineSol Latino Film Festival | Betty Kaplan | Esmerelda Santiago | Almost a Woman | Jesüs Nebot | No Turning Back | Eighth Annual San Antonio Underground Film Festival | Yvette Pita | "Pan y Libertad" | Director's Guild of America EastGo to the beach or go to the movies? You don't have to decide -- South Padre's CineSol Latino Film Festival has both.

"...with director Betty Kaplan's screen adaptation of Esmerelda Santiago's memoir Almost a Woman, followed on Saturday evening by Jesüs..."

June 14, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Summer Reading

Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002

"...The Latest in Paper Nonfiction & Memoir..."

May 31, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Book Review

"...Gould, a convict facing a life sentence, whose rambling memoir turns up as a story within a story, which..."

May 24, 2002 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Articulations

The Long Center for the Performing Arts is delayed until 2005, and MS / Nerve Dance Company and Jason Phelps hold a very personal benefit.

"...able to see not only Segal's Gorilla Guerilla, a memoir: first movement, danced by Segal, Julie Nathanialsz, Myrna Ventura..."

May 17, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Elvis Costello

Record Review

"...and a third," wails Costello during his overproduced three-minute memoir. After that, though, and aside from the whiny self-parody..."

April 19, 2002 Music Review by Shawn Badgley

Book Review: Man and Beast

"...the rights we should accord our pets keep this memoir grounded. With a dose of dark humor that would..."

March 29, 2002 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Articulations

The passing of celebrated actress Irene Worth touches Central Texas, Austin Cabaret Theatre lights its birthday cake with Charo, and Hedwig bumps bee at Zach.

"...editor who discovers that the author of a bestselling memoir wasn't the elderly African-American woman she thought. Now, Zach..."

March 22, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Honor Among Thieves

James Carlos Blake demystifies A World of Thieves and the world of writing.

"...one book of short fiction, plus a poetically moving memoir, Blake has built a collection of ambitious, provocative, literate..."

March 8, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Recommended

"...Over, the TV movie based on Beverly Lowry's excellent memoir of her friendship with Karla Faye Tucker, will air..."

March 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Recommended

"...Stitch in Time. She'll read from her latest, a memoir titled A House Unlocked, which was published in the..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

'The Territory' Schedule

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

"..."Zeuf," Charlotte Lagarde, California, 4 min.: This experimental memoir with overtones of a public-service announcement is about an..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Screens Column

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