Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...philosopher Michael J. Sandel, comedian Michael Ian Black, novelist Nick Hornby, historian H.W. Brands, thrillmeister Dean Koontz, novelist Yaa..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

What'cha Watchin'?

Chronicle Editor Kimberley Jones gives this new cover of High Fidelity a spin

"...Did the world need another rendering of Nick Hornby's comic novel about a record store owner on..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones

Juliet, Naked

Nick Hornby adaptation debunks the myth of authenticity

"...These preoccupations have been the predominate wheelhouse of author Nick Hornby (High Fidelity), and this adaptation of his 2009..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

I Like to Watch

Finding the heart in Syfy's The Magicians

"...Díaz and Tao Lin all the way back to Nick Hornby and Cameron Crowe, he imagines the Manic Pixie..."

April 8, 2016 Screens Post by Jacob Clifton

Steve Davis' Top 10 Films of 2015

"...Best Adapted Screenplay Brooklyn (Nick Hornby, based on book by Colm Tóibín), Carol (Phyllis..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Brooklyn

When looking homeward do we glance toward the past or the future?

"...feet doesn’t fall in love with the guy. Screenwriter Nick Hornby scores again in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

John Singleton and Chris Cooper to be honored

"...Brooklyn Writer: Nick Hornby Director: John Crowley..."

Sept. 30, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Steve Davis' Top 10 List

"...and Michael H. Weber), Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn), Wild (Nick Hornby)..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Josh Kupecki's Top 10 List

"...Enemy (Javier Gullón), Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson), Wild (Nick Hornby)..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Wild

Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed in this autobiographical trek of expiation.

"...beginning of Cheryl’s hike. The jogging never stops. Screenwriter Nick Hornby charts a linear path up the trail from..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

More News From the Local Film Fests Front

"...which stars Reese Witherspoon as hiker Cheryl Strayed in Nick Hornby's adaptation of Strayed's autobiography and is directed by..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Screens Feature

Austin Film Festival Announces (Almost) Full Slate

Opening and closing night films still to come

"...Wild Writer: Nick Hornby, Cheryl Strayed (author) Director: Jean-Marc Vallee In attendance:..."

Sept. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

UT Acquires McSweeney's Archive

Ransom Center will host first editions, correspondence, and more

"...Chabon, Zadie Smith, Sarah Vowell, Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, Nick Hornby, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Foster Wallace, whose..."

July 31, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Springsteen on Springsteen

Nobody knows the Boss better than the Boss knows the Boss

"...a Charlie Rose television interview, and celebrity sit-downs with Nick Hornby, Ed Norton, and Win Butler. By then, you've..."

June 21, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Girling

"...broadside against the Windy City itself. Embarrassing? Perhaps. Like Nick Hornby's most memorable characters, Girling's bewildered man/boy protagonist is..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Best Imitation of Myself

Chatting with Ben Folds about his new box set

"...doing the unexpected, whether it’s working with William Shatner, Nick Hornby, and Regina Spektor, composing music for film soundtracks,..."

Oct. 27, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life

You can take rock & roll out of the novels but not the novelist

"...the former but falls comfortably to the latter (say, Nick Hornby before his screenplay for An Education), which aligns..."

June 11, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Peter Hedges in Real Life

The writer/director returns to his roots with new novel The Heights

"...he's put in time in Hollywood, adapting novels by Nick Hornby and Jane Hamilton and directing two of his..."

March 19, 2010 Books Feature by Michael Agresta

Screens Top 10s

"...Things Are (Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers), An Education (Nick Hornby) WORST FILM..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Education

Everything about Scherfig’s coming-of-age story about a girl in the London suburb of Twickenham in 1961 is spot-on.

"...by Lynn Barber and adapted for the screen by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity), with a steady..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Alternative Hero

When your favorite band moves in down the street, what's an aging music fan to do but go all stalk-y?

"...fan to do but go all stalk-y? Comparisons to Nick Hornby's OCD music fan's manual High Fidelity, which merits..."

July 17, 2009 Books Review by Marc Savlov

The Book of Other People

Profits from the sales of this priceless anthology of short stories will benefit 826NYC

"...Vida, Daniel Clowes, A.M. Homes, and more. We'll mark Nick Hornby's "J. Johnson," illustrated by Posy Simmonds, as just..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dan in Real Life

What passes for real life in this Steve Carell film is as genially inoffensive and predictable as the average TV sitcom.

"...his own novel) and About a Boy (adapted from Nick Hornby's book), other works whose distinctive characters stand apart..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Best Books of 2006

"...year for criticism. While it seems silly to give Nick Hornby extra credit for Housekeeping vs. the Dirt (McSweeney's)..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Jess Sauer

Music DVDs

"...relentlessly affable and heartfelt. One prime extra includes author Nick Hornby and a fab take of the Faces' "Debris."..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Clash

Gift Guide

"...representing both musicians and cultural curators such as writer Nick Hornby and director Danny Boyle, graying punks will enjoy..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Music Review by Dan Oko

Rock & Roll Books

Summer reading

"...an especially gnarly thorn in his side for author Nick Hornby for trashing Kid A in a New Yorker..."

June 2, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

TV Eye

Why 'Love Monkey,' the newest 'Sex and the City' knockoff, might succeed where others failed

"...Smith, which itself could be considered a knockoff of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, later made into the 2000 film..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Road to Esmeralda

'The Road to Esmeralda' is, in some basic senses, a political thriller. However, it's also the story of mind-blowingly pretentious, self-indulgently self-loathing, overprivileged, and underclever yuppies.

"...of mind-blowingly pretentious, self-indulgently self-loathing, overprivileged and underclever yuppies. Nick and Sarah are two Los Angelenos who drive deep..."

June 24, 2005 Books Review by Jess Sauer

Fever Pitch

Don’t go into the Farrelly brothers’ Fever Pitch seeking an adaptation along the lines of the merely Yankified remix of the Nick Hornby novel High Fidelity: This is not that – not even close.

"...Fallon, Lenny Clarke and Jack Kehler. Die-hard fans of Nick Hornby’s first, best novel, Fever Pitch, which chronicles in..."

April 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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