Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

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

"...Nonfiction has just as much to tempt you. Veteran journalist..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Stephanie Elizondo Griest Tracks Injustices on U.S. Borders

The award-winning journalist discusses her latest book, All the Agents and Saints

"...equally laudatory Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, her nonfiction reportage from Beijing to Mexico and almost everywhere in..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Arts Feature by Marc Savlov

The Lost City of Z

A futile quest for an extraordinary place

"...on white-hot New Yorker journalist David Grann’s 2009 bestselling nonfiction book, this endeavor also comes nowhere close to the..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Manifest Destiny

Linklater doc premieres at Sundance

"...avoid the simplistic "talking head" schtick that usually mars nonfiction thanks to expert work by Bernstein's longtime editor, Nevie..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

In the Heart of the Sea

Ron Howard sets sails with that famous Nantucket whale story

"...with screenwriter Charles Leavitt, has adapted author Nathaniel Philbrick’s nonfiction account of the ship’s travails into a gale-force mini-epic..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Black Mass

Johnny Depp plays the notorious South Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger

"...(by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, based on the nonfiction book by Boston Globe journalists Dick Lehr and Gerard..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival 2015: The Mighty 300

Authors for Fest 20 include Lethem, Lemony, Pitts, Diggs, Hart

"...its news program hosts to talk about their new nonfiction books: Weekend Edition Saturday's Scott Simon, who's penned the..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

While We're Young

Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts suffer a midlife funk in Noah Baumbach's latest

"...part of a decade trying to finish his current nonfiction endeavor, a six-hour opus vaguely about “power in America,”..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...Comics follow-up. In fact, the new book isn't even nonfiction. The new Scott McCloud book is a graphic novel..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

#ACreads: Last Chance to Vote

Tell us which book you'd like to discuss at our Dec. 8 chat

"...We've yet to pull a tome off the nonfiction shelf, and the fall has seen a bumper crop..."

Nov. 11, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

The Good Eye: A Woman Possessed

Was she wrong to go all Isabelle Adjani on New Yorker book critic James Wood?

"...forth between what the narrator (or author, if it's nonfiction) thinks and paraphrasing what the characters (or subjects, if..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Lit-urday: NYRB Classics

Reissue series has some offbeat entries for the literary canon

"...is a consistently surprising selection of both fiction and nonfiction reissues, each complemented by an essay discussing the work...."

Aug. 16, 2014 Books Post by Amy Kamp

July Is Crime Month: Q&A with Meg Gardiner

Local writer on her new thriller and her secret to success

"...read a lot of science fiction as well and nonfiction. Someone asked what I was reading for pleasure, and..."

July 9, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Reading to Celebrate All Year

Writers highlighted on the last day of Black History Month

"...long fight with cancer, Lorde penned several works of nonfiction including Zami: A New Spelling of My Name in..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Take a Journey With Healing Veterans in 'The Battle Back Home'

MSNBC to air Wounded Warrior Project docu-series

"...veterans, the group co-produced – together with Austin-based Flow Nonfiction – Wounded: The Battle Back Home, a 10-part documentary..."

Nov. 9, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Fine Print

Texas Book Festival brings some of the best and brightest literary minds to the Capitol

"...new and staggering works of art. We devour novels, nonfiction, memoirs, biographies, poetry, cookbooks, short stories, and even newspaper..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Books Feature by Monica Riese

Keep Calm and Party On

Everything you need to know to navigate SXSW Film

"...Yen Tan, and David Modigliani, creative director of Flow Nonfiction. WHERE TO SEE IT..."

March 4, 2013 Screens Post

Moving on From West Memphis

Freed from death row, Damien Echols reflects on where to go next

"...DE: It is. But I can only do nonfiction. I tried, one time, to sit down and write..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Books Feature by Dan Solomon

What To Expect When You're Expecting

The gamut of the modern babymaking experience is explored by a small batallion of entertainers.

"...That Into You, also based on a work of nonfiction, or those Garry Marshall holiday-themed atrocities, Valentine's Day and..."

May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Dangerous Method

David Cronenberg forgoes his customary viscera for the more unknowable id as Drs. Jung and Freud hash out the origins of our unconscious impulses.

"...Talking Cure (which was itself based on John Kerr’s nonfiction work A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung,..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Road Is Long

Michael Ventura's many winding turns

"...Sure, there are the novels, the film criticism, the nonfiction books, screenplays, and poems – all of them essential..."

April 22, 2011 Books Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Flam

The Austin Studios campus expands, SXSW Film adds venues and a tribute to Ain't It Cool News, and more

"...The company behind the film is the Austin-based Flow Nonfiction, a collective founded by documentarian David Modigliani and his..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

TV Eye eyes the noms for outstanding writing

"...new categories to reflect television beyond broad fiction and nonfiction categories. No one ever knows where or how to..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

I Would Have Filmed Shorter If I'd Had More Time

AFS Doc Tour presents Doxita: Life Is a Progress, a program of documentary shorts

"...Cirillo scouts potential nonfiction shorts of varying lengths (but less than 40 minutes)..."

July 16, 2010 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

SXSW Film

Lena Dunham on her Jury Award-winner, Tiny Furniture

"...Southwest in as many years; her first feature, Creative Nonfiction, screened in the Emerging Visions sidebar in 2009...."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

The Blind Side

John Lee Hancock, director of The Rookie, scores with another sports drama, this time concerning a true football story.

"...Blind Side – which Hancock adapted from Michael Lewis’ nonfiction book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game –..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Blood's a Rover: A Novel

Ellroy's oh-the-humanity neo-noir crimespeak bubbles up not from the heart nor from the head but from the gut

"...over the years, along with a clutch of bios, nonfiction works, and forays into, onto, and behind the silver..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Books Review by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

The Emmys bump two writing categories from the live telecast. Bad move.

"...begin with. (A fifth category – Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming – is already excluded from the Emmy telecast.)..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Public Enemies

Michael Mann's film is a human-scale biopic of the gangster folk hero John Dillinger.

"...Ann Biderman, and Ronan Bennett, adapted from Bryan Burrough's nonfiction book) is too blocky for sustained dramatic tension, and..."

July 3, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...was celebrated locally and nationally for his fiction and nonfiction. He also wrote screenplays. Chronicle Editor Louis Black spoke..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

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