Unpacking Serial

Co-creator / reporter Sarah Koenig on how the groundbreaking podcast came to be

"...in there. The difference was, you know, it was nonfiction. But in terms of an actual documentary, I don't..."

July 31, 2015 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Texas Book Festival: First Authors

Margaret Atwood leads the list of 20 authors for the 20th fest

"...Sandra Cisneros has a new collection of autobiographical and nonfiction pieces, A House of My Own: Stories from My..."

July 17, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

On Display

"...and edit other people's writing. I also write creative nonfiction and am completing a memoir; I stitch and crochet..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

An Actress Plays Herself in the Role of a Lifetime

AFS Doc Nights: Actress

"...people have when they sit down and watch a nonfiction film – Why are they allowing such intimacy? Who..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose

This nonfiction account of a teen's encounters with sex, drugs, and jail is one long, raw primal scream

"...In 1971, a striking work of purported nonfiction was published, Go Ask Alice. Credited to "Anonymous," it..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Review by Tim Stegall

Exceeding Themselves

Lawrence Wright's Thirteen Days in September tells how Carter, Sadat, and Begin made an impossible peace

"...Austin Chronicle: We're used to seeing nonfiction books adapted into dramatic form, but it isn't often..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Zone of Interest

Martin Amis revisits the Holocaust in this new novel, which is eloquent and yet lacks depth

"...13 more novels, as well as several works of nonfiction. In his latest novel, The Zone of Interest, he..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Kamp

Lit-urday: The Fever

Megan Abbott novel outfits high schoolers in a fetching shade of noir

"...to its midcentury, L.A. heyday, she also wrote a nonfiction analysis of the genre, 2002’s The Street Was Mine:..."

July 5, 2014 Books Post by Amy Kamp

'Mean Girls': 10 Years On and Still Going Strong

That's so fetch

"...if she did base her script on Rosalind Wiseman’s nonfiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes – but I was..."

April 30, 2014 Screens Post by Neha Aziz

Get to Know Zadie Smith

Acclaimed author stopped in Austin last night

"...in her, and whether it's short stories, novels or nonfiction, she’s sure to keep challenging her audience. It’s not..."

March 28, 2014 Books Post by Rod Machen

SXSW: Do It Like a Local

Flow Nonfiction & the Chronicle offer some pro tips for out-of-towners

"...The creative team behind Austin-based documentary agency Flow Nonfiction (MSNBC/Wounded Warrior Project) and Austin Chronicle managing editor Kim..."

Feb. 26, 2014 SXSW Post

Three Cheers for Reading

Our favorite books of 2013

"...On the nonfiction side, Kansas City Light­ning (Harper) by Stanley Crouch, the..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Get Booked

Big names and newcomers delight in this collection of recent releases

"...for two-act play Lucky Guy, Ephron's final work. Her nonfiction fills out the rest of the book, with dispatches..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Kimberley Jones

T.R. Fehrenbach Dead at 88

Historian celebrated for 'Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans'

"...Commission and more than a dozen and half published nonfiction books on topics as diverse as the Korean War..."

Dec. 2, 2013 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Randi Zuckerberg's 'Dot Complicated' World

Former Facebook marketing director visits the Texas Conference for Women

"...These "dot complications" inspired her two new books. The nonfiction, Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, seeks (along with..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Music of the Mind: Joe Pug

Local transplant trades the hammer for the pen

"...off days you’ll find a book in his hands, “nonfiction mostly.” Catch him at the Parish this Saturday, Nov...."

Nov. 19, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Texas Book Festival 2013

Oct. 28, 2013. 36 photos.

"...For Binelli, his nonfiction book – which takes its title "from the song..."

Oct. 29, 2013 Photo Gallery

Person of Interest

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

"..."Fiction contains as much truth as nonfiction. You're learning how people live," says novelist Meg Wolitzer...."

Oct. 25, 2013 Books Feature by Amy Gentry

Blood Brothers

Bringing James Welch's novel of Native life, 'Winter in the Blood,' to the screen

"...of poems called Riding the Earthboy 40, and the nonfiction Killing Custer, which I helped him to write. Even..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

A Journey Through Hell

Óscar Martínez talks about riding the rails through Mexico to America

"...Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers, the most impressive nonfiction book I've read in years.")..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Arts Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

"...Many Rivers to Cross Mary Kay Zuravleff, Man Alive! Nonfiction..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Cloudy With a Chance of Winik

Marion Winik navigates the single life in 'Highs in the Low Fifties'

June 21, 2013 Arts Feature by Monica Riese

Fitzgeralds Everywhere

Four new books riding the Gatsby wave

"...Sheilah Graham is told by Graham herself in this nonfiction memoir, resurrected from the dust of 1966 by the..."

June 12, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Who Dares Try to Out-Author the Authors, Onstage and Off the Cuff?

Institution Theater improvisers wreak creativity on published works

"...realism? Yes. Young adult novel with fairy folk? Yes. Nonfiction book about sex and personal memoir about discovery? Yes...."

June 11, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

View From the 'Front Line'

HBO doc celebrates Tim Hetherington's life

"...This documentary comes at an interesting flashpoint in nonfiction television, particularly at prestige cabler HBO. Two weeks ago,..."

April 18, 2013 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

Adam Johnson's 'The Orphan Master's Son' wins fiction award

"...General Nonfiction: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys,..."

April 15, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Civics 101

"...former managing editor of Baltimore's Indypendent Reader, leads a nonfiction writing workshop with a focus on the political. 9am...."

April 12, 2013 News Column

'High Noon' Hits Just as Hard After Dark

UT's RTF Community Screenings leads off with iconic Western

"...presenting The Searchers, the subject of his much-praised new nonfiction book; and Richard Lewis hosting 1990's A Shock to..."

Feb. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Framing the Guilty?

Houston police thought they had their man – so the evidence was no problem

"...Allen has written four books, each a blend of nonfiction and fiction, and posts regularly to his website, www.skepticaljuror.com...."

Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

AFF2012: ‘See the Dirt’

Locals produce prize-winning short doc about a vintage vacuum fan

"...indicator of the directors’ command of the short-form narrative nonfiction craft. A woman behind me spent about two-thirds of..."

Oct. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Leah Churner

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