Candidate Sack

Friday Night Lights' Peter Berg bites back at Romney campaign

"...earlier this week, Buzz Bissinger, the author of the nonfiction book the television series [and Berg's 2004 film adaptation]..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival Lineup Revealed

Attendees include Junot Díaz, Cheryl Strayed, and... Tony Danza?

"...big hitters in fiction (Junot Díaz, Justin Cronin) and nonfiction (Robert Caro, Douglas Brinkley, Cheryl Strayed, Naomi Wolf), plus..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Why is William Gibson at BookPeople Tonight?

Because you should definitely distrust that particular flavor

"...to get comfortable, or better than uncomfortable, with writing nonfiction. But now that you've reached the point of being..."

Sept. 6, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Bedside Manner

Rules to read by

"...between two or three books at once, usually a nonfiction book and one or two novels. This system has..."

Aug. 20, 2012 Books Post by Josh Kupecki

Illumine Honorees Announced

Douglas Brinkley, Sarah Bird, Joe Ely to be awarded

"...unique contributions to the world of letters: Douglas Brinkley, nonfiction (his biography of Walter Cronkite came out this May);..."

Aug. 19, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Leonard Pitts Jr. at BookPeople Tonight

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer reads from 'Freeman'

"...The Chronicle spoke with Pitts in 2010 about his nonfiction writing; you check that out here...."

June 26, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: Evening Escape

Anne Harris thumbs through current bedtime reading

"...a light bedtime refreshment; mainly fiction from friends, or nonfiction that been laying around on another stack. From left..."

June 25, 2012 Books Post by Anne Harris

Alif the Unseen

Maps to the Middle East: 'Alif the Unseen'

"...appropriate that it's G. Willow Wilson. As her previous (nonfiction) book The Butterfly Mosque relates, the author left her..."

June 15, 2012 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

What We Talk About When We Talk About Debt

Jennifer Baichwal adapts to screen Margaret Atwood's ideas about indebtedness

"...Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, a 2008 nonfiction book that originated as a lecture series delivered by..."

June 8, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Saramago, In Print and On Film

'José e Pilar' screens tonight, as a new collection debuts

"...Moore and Mark Ruffalo), poetry, plays, short stories, and nonfiction work. Miguel Gonçalves Mendes' 2010 film José e Pilar..."

April 25, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

So Fab

New Fiction Confab snags Ben Marcus, Heidi Julavits, and more

"...here). And Peter Orner, author of both fiction and nonfiction books, most recently published Love and Shame and Love,..."

March 28, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: Into the Unknown (With a Slight Detour to New York)

What we're reading these days

"...I also enjoy reading nonfiction accounts of the deaths of others as much as..."

Feb. 6, 2012 Books Post by Marc Savlov

Q&A With Janet Pierson

SXSW Film Producer breaks down the lineup for us

"...times, we took a chance with her on Creative Nonfiction [which screened at SXSW in 2009 in the Emerging..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

What To Do After SXSW

David Foster Wallace. HRC Symposium. What else do you need to know?

"...The posthumous conversation has turned only a tad less..."

Jan. 12, 2012 Books Post by Cindy Widner

SXSW Film First Wave Announced

Jonesing for Joss Whedon? He'll be here shortly

"...talent ever since it debuted Dunham’s first film Creative Nonfiction in 2009, followed by the premiere of 2010’s Tiny..."

Jan. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Top 10 Rick Perry Campaign Misfires

... Oops

"...It quickly became the No. 1 gay and lesbian nonfiction title for the Kindle...."

Jan. 6, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Memory Lapse?

Former district attorney doesn't remember much about prosecuting an innocent man for murder

"...that in writing a book – apparently even a nonfiction one – you "write ... with a little bit..."

Dec. 9, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Illuminating Austin Authors

Dagoberto Gilb, Gregory Curtis among Illumine honorees

"...Jake Silverstein, editor of Texas Monthly and author of fiction/nonfiction hybrid Nothing Happened and Then It Did..."

Nov. 9, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Scott Blackwood Wins Whiting Writer's Award

That's a $50,000 prize for the former Austinite

"...by the foundation this year; ten writers from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting are recognized annually for their "exceptional..."

Nov. 1, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival

First look at the TBF lineup

"...Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father. Other nonfiction selections look farther afield, to India (Siddhartha Deb's The..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

A Starry Lineup at Texas Book Festival's Literary Gala

In the case of Molly Shannon, make that super-starry

"...book coming out in September; Susan Orlean, the award-winning nonfiction writer who sowed the seed of Adaptation with The..."

Aug. 3, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

East of the West: A Country in Stories

If you have to staycation, at least see the world via books

"...If you prefer the nonfiction route of summer disassociation or are prone to daydream..."

July 29, 2011 Books Review by Sarah Smith

Bedside Manner: Ten Commandments

A self-described brat ponders his sleep situation

"...I end up digging into books about baseball. For nonfiction, Crazy ‘08 by Cait Murphey is a great history..."

May 24, 2011 Books Post by Doug Freeman

Bedside Manner: In Media Res

False starts, slow reads

"...like a diss but is really quite delightful. This nonfiction book includes the story of an inmate who faked..."

April 27, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

From the Watergate Break-in to a Broken News Media

Key players in All the President's Men reflect on what 35 years have wrought

"...Pakula's film version of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's nonfiction book, All the President's Men. It was one of..."

April 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

WLT 2010 Book Awards

Molly Ivins' bio wins for best nonfiction

"...authors Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith took the nonfiction prize for their biography Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life...."

Jan. 10, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Choosing Their Words Carefully

How literary translators shrink the world down to a more manageable size

"...has upward of 250 members who translate fiction and nonfiction into and from all the European and Latin American..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Bedside Manner: Midnight Library

The more books there are, the less reading there is

"...just realized – no fiction. Among the works of nonfiction: Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw, a collection of..."

Nov. 29, 2010 Books Post by Nora Ankrum

The Hightower Report

GOP Blocks Mine Safety Efforts; and Pulp Nonfiction

"...in the mines for at least two years. Pulp Nonfiction..."

Nov. 12, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Drawing Inspiration Out of the Past

Writer Barry Gifford, still Wild at Heart

"...a film, Lost Highway, as well as Gifford's masterful nonfiction dissection of his favored film genre, Out of the..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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