The Bob Dylan Nobel: The Morning After

Firsthand from Sweden, what happened at the ceremony

"...week in Stockholm to cover the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Dylan. Here's his account of..."

Dec. 12, 2016 Arts Post by David Gaines

The Bob Dylan Nobel: Live From Stockholm

Local Dylan scholar reports from Sweden on Prize festivities

"...trip to Stockholm this week to pick up his Nobel Prize for Literature, but one Southwestern University professor did...."

Dec. 11, 2016 Arts Post by David Gaines

An Opera for Wartime

Philip Glass' Waiting for the Barbarians arrives when its message is urgently needed

"...Dark days frequently call forth mighty works of art...."

Jan. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

10 Questions for Geezer Butler

Bassist’s questionnaire for Black Sabbath’s final U.S. concert

"...AT&T Center – billed as their last North American performance ever – Butler emailed us back...."

Nov. 11, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Wife

Glenn Close is icily brilliant as a woman who refuses to be diminished

"...speeches. Joe Castleman (Pryce), newly minted winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, thanks his wife, his “muse” Joan..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Archive of the Patriarch

Ransom Center acquires Gabriel García Márquez papers

"...major boost to its holdings by Latin American authors, Nobel laureates, and the most influential literary figures of the..."

Nov. 25, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Bedside Manner: Tales From the Commute

What's crowning Jay Trachtenberg's bedside table

"...Taking the bus to work: Good for the environment, and great for reading...."

Nov. 1, 2010 Books Post by Jay Trachtenberg

Invasion of the Amazing Colossal Artists

In the final days of October, Central Texas plays host to the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, Derek Walcott; winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music, John Corigliano; and two-time finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN / Faulkner award, Russell Banks.

"...the mall-sized tarantulas and scorpions are replaced with gargantuan Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners. If the concept of..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

A rare journey behind the words of America's poet laureate

"...the humble beginnings of this African American Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning author, essayist, political radical, and Princeton professor emeritus..."

July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tom & Viv

"...20th-century poetry, an American-born but expatriated British subject, a Nobel prize-winning lion of literature who championed the literary idea..."

March 17, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Julieta

Almodóvar tracks the stages of a woman's life

"...Almodóvar’s mournful adaptation of three short stories written by Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro, each focusing on a woman..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Postscripts

"...announced plans to establish the James A. Michener Memorial Prize, to be awarded annually beginning February 3 (Michener's birthday),..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

The Latest in Paper: The People's Poet

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

"...stands today at nearly 4,000 pages. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 (celebrated in Chile as..."

April 2, 2004 Books Review by Dominic Luxford

Off The Bookshelf

Dear Exile:

"...The True Story of Two Friends Separated (For a Year) by an Ocean..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

Poet Marlys West

"...next, state that someday she'd like to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Ambition aside, however, Marlys West knows..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Books Feature

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 26 - February 1

"...ever act that way again. 3) You can better forgive those who wounded you if you forgive yourself for..."

Jan. 26, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Adios 2005

Top 10 Quotes of the Year

"...2) "Our goal for this process was to create a policy of disablement,..."

Jan. 6, 2006 News Feature

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 7-13

"...body known as Pluto in 1930. This was years before he earned advanced degrees in astronomy. His early education..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 17-23

"...and thinking the same old thoughts are strongly discouraged. For the sake of your spiritual and physical health, please..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 19-25

"...edited out some graphic elements of the original narratives. For example, in the Grimms' revised version, we don't get..."

May 19, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 3-9

"...think she succeeded in doing both. She won a Nobel Prize for Literature. Her trilogy about a 14th-century Norwegian..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 26 - December 2

"...am routinely denied or only suspect exists. I long for a glimpse of what is beginning to occur." Although..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...East.'" – British playwright Harold Pinter, accepting the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature..."

Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature

Lit-urday: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Haruki Murakami turns the volume down

"...let's call it Lit-urday. Perhaps you're in the mood for the latest by Haruki Murakami, the rare author who's..."

Aug. 23, 2014 Books Post by Amy Kamp

Reading to Celebrate All Year

Writers highlighted on the last day of Black History Month

"...fiction that centers on a young slave named Henry Shackleford who, by happenstance, becomes teamed with a legendary abolitionist..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 3-9

"...you put away your phone and go completely offline for a while." She adds that sometimes you also need..."

June 3, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Lecturers Sue to Block Campus Carry

Do Texas concealed handgun rules break the Second Amendment?

"...anything to say about it, having filed a request for a federal injunction allowing gun free classrooms...."

July 7, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet

Jazz Sides

"...(pronounced "vi sawva sim borska"), who won the 1966 Nobel Prize in literature and died last year. Though only..."

July 5, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

What Odd Circumstance Joins Austin’s L.B. Deyo With Gabriel García Márquez Even Beyond the Ransom Center’s Newly Revealed Archives?

Maybe it’s, what? Love, in the time of measles?

"...the archives of Gabriel García Márquez on public display for the first time now...."

Feb. 3, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Person of Interest

Meg Wolitzer's latest book tracks six characters through three decades of friendship

"...over three decades, with a special focus on Jules, for whom being "slapped into life at Spirit-in-the-Woods" that summer..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Books Feature by Amy Gentry

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