Charlie Wilson's War

Despite a script by Aaron Sorkin, direction by Mike Nichols, and star turns by Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, this good-natured geopolitical romp falls flat.

"...he's a gas to watch.) Based on George Crile's nonfiction book of the same name, Charlie Wilson's War tells..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Temples and Playgrounds

Previewing the 2007 Texas Book Festival, Nov. 3-4

"...Reading Saunders' nonfiction work – significant reportage, stirring essay, and the customary..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Iraq in Fragments

This multiaward-winning documentary was two years in the making and tells stories about modern Iraq in the words of civilians of various ethnicities.

"...so viewers who expect a photojournalistic approach to a nonfiction topic may find Longley's use of subjective camera jarring...."

March 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Capote

While Capote is a good film, it hasn’t closed the book on the subject, even though the performances are undeniably great.

"...Capote predicts the as yet unwritten book – "a nonfiction novel," he calls it – will change the face..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Brother to Brother

A festival favorite jumps to the big screen with its story that compares and contrasts life as a gay black man in the present day and the Harlem Renaissance.

"...that it would be perhaps better served by the nonfiction format, or at least a more tightly focused feature;..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

City by the Sea

"...of the film's story, which is based on a nonfiction article that appeared in Esquire a few years ago,..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Susanna Kaysen Lays It on the Line

The Camera My Mother Gave Me, by Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen, is a memoir that has nothing to do with either the author's camera or her mother, Marion Winik writes. It is about her vagina. It is the chronicle of a mysterious and intractable medical problem she had with this little-discussed part of the body, and of the interesting experiences she endured in what I think of as Patient-World, the alternate reality inhabited by those of us who have something wrong with our bodies.

"...With her second book of nonfiction (she is the author of two novels before G.I.),..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Postscripts

Resistencia Bookstore was the victim of a car accident last weekend but vows to move on "come hell or high water."

"...submitted in the categories of literary prose & poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. The finalists in the fiction category are..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

TV Eye

No Emmy nominations for Buffy

"...recognition of reality programs, the Emmy folks expanded the nonfiction categories, thereby inviting nominees like Survivor (CBS), Eco-Challenge (USA),..."

July 20, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Postscripts

Austin literary agent Jim Hornfischer hasn't been sleeping. He's taking the bar at the end of the month, he and his wife have three children, and he recently founded his own agency, Hornfischer Literary Management, Inc., after eight years with The Literary Group, an agency headquartered in New York known for handling celebrity books.

"...a reputation for deft management of authors writing narrative nonfiction, history, biography -- nonfiction of all kinds, really. Flags..."

July 13, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...their fruitful (but perhaps not monetarily rewarding) fiction and nonfiction writing, all to be seduced by the siren song..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Postscripts

How to celebrate Bloomsday and other upcoming literary events in Austin.

"...at 4pm on KOOP 91.7FM, is sponsoring a creative nonfiction writing contest. Entries must be less than 500 words..."

June 15, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...for its preservation. By contrast, he said, journalism and nonfiction might help waken our environmental sympathies but were unlikely..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...whom, like novelist Norman Mailer, were just turning to nonfiction; and Rolling Stone was on a talent search that..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

American Nightmare

A new documentary on IFC examines seminal horror films of the Sixties and Seventies and persuasively argues that the images and ideology of these groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.

"...career to every once in a while do some nonfiction filmmaking -- and particularly nonfiction filmmaking about film. For..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cinematexas 2002

"...films selected by Terrence Malick, an in-person presentation of nonfiction films by Werner Herzog, and a showcase of films..."

Oct. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Armchair Adventures

"Good adventure books do the same thing as a good adventure," Chronicle writer Dan Oko writes in this roundup of recently published adventure books.

"...and the story's outcome, some examples of this primarily nonfiction genre -- like travel writing, its close cousin --..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Two for the Road

Larry McMurtry's New Books Continue His Journey

"...it is not unusual to find that McMurtry's latest nonfiction effort, with the straightforward title Roads, takes the journey..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Mark Busby

For the Time Being

"...Chardin. If it sounds more diffuse than most literary nonfiction, it is. It is also better than most literary..."

April 7, 2000 Books Review by Tim Walker

Peter Matthiessen

"...short stories, and essays. Known primarily for his intelligent nonfiction chronicling the increasing fragility of the natural world and..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature by Bruce McCandless

Postscripts

"...independents to showcase a diverse selection of quality fiction, nonfiction, and children's titles," according to Bookselling This Week, a..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

The News From Here

"...I'm interpreting it. There's a difference. In a conventional nonfiction film the narrator tells the viewer how to interpret..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Making Lists

"...is on firmer ground in 50+ when he discusses nonfiction. Olmsted's A Journey Through Texas, Webb's The Great Plains,..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Violet Crown Finalists

"...June 30, 1998 in one of three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and literary fiction: poetry or essay. The finalists are..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Books Feature

Postscripts

Violet Crown Awards

"...awards will be given in the following categories: fiction, nonfiction, and literary fiction (aka poetry and essays, but not..."

May 29, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End

"...“lamentation.” In a way, this film works like a nonfiction version of Norman René's Longtime Companion (1990), another movie..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Postscripts

Local Writers Now Victims

"...is Dead Already: A California Gothic, has both a nonfiction and fiction contract with HarperCollins, the nonfiction to be..."

April 24, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

"...an essayist, one who employs the methodology of outwardly-focused nonfiction filmmaking to make extremely personal objects of self-expression. Nowhere..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postscripts

"...the month. This week, Jan Grape (mystery), Brad Buchholz (nonfiction book), and more, 7-9pm on the third floor. WiP..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Books Column

Postscripts

"...open mike follows... The Austin Writers' League hosts a nonfiction writing conference through Sunday, Nov. 3. Included will be..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Books Column

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