The Heartsick Poet

Poet Dean Young celebrates a new book and hopes for a new heart

"...Any day, or week, or month, or – God forbid – year, a call could come in on Young's..."

April 8, 2011 Books Feature by Amy Smith

The Reader's Field Guide to Michael Noll

The Austin writer behind The Writer's Field Guide

"...literary icon — which seems to be Noll’s future. For now, he’s the new author with the entire city..."

April 4, 2018 Arts Post by Katarina Brown

Letting Go, With 'Peace'

Champion for new plays Suzan Zeder closes her career at UT with a new drama of her own

"...visiting playwright who regularly teaches with Zeder at the Michener Center for Writers. At that speed, Kramer teases, poor..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Why Sarah Elaine Smith Writes the Way She Does

The author of Marilou Is Everywhere tells the full story

"...For her debut novel Marilou Is Everywhere, Sarah Elaine Smith..."

Oct. 23, 2019 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

News/Print

Headlines and updates from the written world

"...events tonight, plus two poetry contests and two awards for Texas Monthly. Man, we thought good things all came..."

May 3, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

News/Print

Book Fest shorts, upcoming readings, and more

"...Fall is always a solid season for books, and this month is no exception. Just as..."

Oct. 3, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Big Slutty Bears and Old Familiar Faces

S.E. Smith (I Live in a Hut) featured in Coldfront interview

"...a special soft spot in our hearts around here for former Chronicle proofreaders (indeed, I'm one), but no sentimentality..."

March 18, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

The Son Rises With Philipp Meyer

Austin author on adapting his award-winning novel for AMC

"...decided to adapt his epic Texas novel The Son for the screen...."

April 7, 2017 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Get to Know Zadie Smith

Acclaimed author stopped in Austin last night

"...Zadie Smith was in Austin Thursday for a talk sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers...."

March 28, 2014 Books Post by Rod Machen

J.M. Coetzee Comes Back to TX

Harry Ransom Center acquires Nobel Prize winner's archives

"...The Harry Ransom Center announced today its acquisition of the archive of South..."

Oct. 10, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

MACC Mommy

Managing the busy new Mexican American Cultural Center is inspiring work for Amparo Garcia-Crow

"...no shortage of activity at the Mexican American Cultural Center. Perched like a bright-white origami figure on the north..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Postscripts

Local Writers Now Victims

"...Monthly contributing editor Jan Reid, TM associate editor and former Chronicle managing editor Michael Hall, and TM assistant editor..."

April 24, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

T.C. Boyle Reads at UT

The prolific author speaks tomorrow night on campus

"...picked up by the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center, T.C. Boyle will himself be on campus tomorrow night...."

March 20, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

The Threat to NEA Funding and Austin

How would the proposed cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts hit Austin? Hard.

"...cash. Since its founding in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts has supplied money to artists and organizations..."

April 28, 2017 Arts Feature by Katarina Brown

Mark Strand on UT Campus Tonight

Former poet laureate first in MCW spring reading series

"...of the greats of contemporary poetry, kicks off the Michener Center for Writers' spring reading series tonight...."

Jan. 26, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Netflix Eyes Austin Duo’s Project

Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman developing 'Hemlock Grove'

"...Well, this is exciting: Deadline Hollywood reported today that..."

Dec. 12, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

From the Dept. of Deeply Heartwarming Stuff

Poet Dean Young has undergone a heart transplant

"...poet and popular teacher in the University of Texas' Michener Center for Writers underwent a heart transplant Thursday night,..."

April 15, 2011 Books Post by Amy Smith

UT Hires Playwrights Annie Baker and Branden Jacob-Jenkins

MacArthur Fellows will teach in theatre department, Michener Center

"...in the Department of Theatre & Dance and the Michener Center for Writers...."

Jan. 30, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Gathering Up the Wanderers

The Austin International Poetry Festival

"...means that no one is judging, so anyone can perform. If you had the guff to send in your..."

April 16, 2004 Books Feature by Abe Louise Young

Texas Book Festival 2021: First Authors Announced

Colson Whitehead, Elizabeth McCracken, Amor Towles lead the list

"...shorten that time span by revealing the first authors for 2021, a stellar group that includes Colson Whitehead, Elizabeth..."

July 21, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Bedside Manner

So I'm trying this new thing …

"...a control freak, not to mention a real stickler for narrative logic, which means I find my dream life..."

June 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Ian McEwan Appears at UT (and in the Pages of 'The New Yorker')

The sprawling profile is a good way get excited about the Booker Prize-winning author's upcoming reading

"...and Saturday. Daniel Zalewski’s piece is perhaps too exhaustive for primer purposes, but it’s fascinating stuff for the McEwan..."

Feb. 19, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

In Good Company

A casual spectator might not realize just how much Robert Creeley's long literary career -- he's 73 this year -- has been conducted on the edge. But Creeley not only had a finger on the pulse of American poetry, he's usually been a heartbeat or two ahead of it.

"...win the Bollingen Prize, Yale University Library's semiannual award for the best book of poems or lifetime achievement in..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Craig Arnold

Writing by Degrees

The Unfolding Now

"...ramble. It's a compulsion he freely admits, even relishes. Forty-five minutes into our interview he stops and looks up...."

Jan. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Jay Hardwig

Elizabeth McCracken and Edward Carey's Write Balance

The local literary duo discusses being a creative couple and how it affects their work and process

"...as our citizens have been reminding each other since before Willie Nelson was a young man, and occasionally some..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Little Inklings

"...photograph Courtesy of Michener Center For Writers..."

April 30, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Making Lists

"..."Texas has no serious writers. I am the first serious writer Texas has produced."..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Young Claus

Charming tale of Santa before he was so jolly and round

"...Magnuson, a literary heavyweight who directed UT's James A. Michener Center for Writers for 23 years before retiring in..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Arts Feature by Katherine McNevins

Austin Playwrights

Four Austin playwrights are getting the opportunity to develop and showcase new work in the Big Apple

"...and the Desert) has completed her MFA at UT's Michener Center for Writers and is soon to depart Austin,..."

June 2, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

First Generation

The 2011 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...to make art, Ney constructed a space in Austin for the arts to grow. Although Formosa, her estate in..."

June 3, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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