The Godfather

The 1972 Best Picture Oscar-winner is a great pulp drama

"...pulp drama co-authored for the screen by Coppola and novelist Mario Puzo (the script also won an Oscar). And..."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Primal Fear

"...lover. Based on the New York Times bestseller by novelist William Diehl, Primal Fear marks the first feature film..."

April 5, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

S.F.W.

"...the generational battle cry “So fucking what”). Based on novelist Andrew Wellman's book by the same name, S.F.W. is..."

Jan. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Love After Love

"...lovely yet often inscrutable Isabelle Huppert as a successful novelist named Lola whose live-in love of many years, an..."

Nov. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Good Man in Africa

"...from book to film. The movie was adapted by novelist William Boyd himself, but it feels like it's missing..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Rising Sun

"...here to avoid the novel's Japan-bashing (which resulted in novelist Crichton and collaborator Michael Backes leaving the project), turning..."

Aug. 6, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Tous les Matins lu Monde

"...embraces a neglected child. Loosely based on historical fact, novelist Pascal Quignard's script is full of small quirks and..."

March 5, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

London Kills Me

"...Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Emer McCourt and Brad Dourif. Screenwriter/novelist Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid,..."

Oct. 23, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Defenseless

"...the producers had the good sense to allow mystery novelist Sue Grafton to pen the script, things might have..."

Aug. 30, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

C. Robert Cargill Nominated for Clarke Award

Dr. Strange co-writer up for SF lit's biggest award

"...Austin novelist C. Robert Cargill has just been announced as one..."

May 2, 2018 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin African American Book Festival Announces Theme, Guests

“Black Lives Matter” is this year’s guiding theme

"...June featuring talks with a poet-filmmaker, a historical romance novelist, and a UT counseling psychologist...."

May 7, 2015 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Studio Visits: Matt Rebholz

Conspiracy theories and the painstaking work of being a graphic novelist

"...work – and indeed, the work of many graphic novelists – is that there are no shortcuts. And because..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

Montecore

Montecore shows a young novelist swinging for the fences and hitting hard

"...chewing gum to lose its snap. The idea that novelists might draw heavily on real-life experience in crafting their..."

April 1, 2011 Books Review by Sarah Smith

All the Ladies in the House

Texas authors Sarah Bird and Diane Wilson win Dobie Paisano fellowships

"...cold hard cash. Texas Monthly columnist and much-loved comic novelist Sarah Bird (How Perfect Is That) won the Johnston..."

May 15, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Game 6

Novelist Don DeLillo's first foray as a screenwriter uses the legendary sixth game of the 1986 World Series as the central metaphor in this film starring Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr.

"...Ari Graynor, David Guion, Roger Rees and Harris Yulin. Novelist Don DeLillo debuts as a screenwriter in this film..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

Austin's Best Novelist

"...Many novelists have given up the art of description. They tend..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Rants on the Writing of Novels

Letters at 3AM

"...averaged the destruction of one serious relationship per book.) Novelists seek love between novels, but while working they're too..."

April 11, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

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.

"...the kitchen, and begin a mutual exploration of her pre-novelist past, beginning with the official version...."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Postscripts

"...Soledad St.) will begin at 6:30pm with readings from novelist/playwright Larry L. King, poet Paulette Jiles, novelist William Haupman,..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Books Column

Living

Bill Nighy explores the inner desperation of a very proper Englishman

"...It's this similarity that forms the bridge for British novelist and scriptwriter Kazuo Ishiguro to adapt Akira Kurosawa's 1952..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Stranger Than Fiction

A good movie but not a great one, Stranger Than Fiction is reminiscent of the films of Charlie Kaufman but lacks that writer’s conceptual rigor and imaginative power.

"...belongs to Kay Eiffel (Thompson), a talented but troubled novelist who’s famous for her dedication to killing off protagonists...."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Why I Read ...

"...Novelist Sarah Bird: I've just called the library to find..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

The Originator, Not the Imitator

My Lunch With Anna Quindlen

"...it occurred to me that you couldn't be a novelist and make a living. Originally I went into journalism..."

March 27, 1998 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Postscripts

AWL Workshops

"...Herndon will give a workshop on "Applied Poetics" and novelist Bill Spencer will offer "Opening Chapter/Query Letter for the..."

March 28, 1997 Books Column

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 20-26

"...characters dealing with fascinating dilemmas, I turn to French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). I feel a kinship with..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 8-14

"...SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio novelist Kurt Vonnegut testified, "I want to stay as close..."

Sept. 8, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...plus philosopher Michael J. Sandel, comedian Michael Ian Black, novelist Nick Hornby, historian H.W. Brands, thrillmeister Dean Koontz, novelist..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

"A Celebration of Writing, and Reading"

Louis Black's notes on the first Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...new competition were an impressive septet of local literati: novelist Sarah Bird (who, at that point, had published Alamo..."

June 14, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...Zero K, in a conversation with local screenwriter and novelist Noah Hawley (the FX series Fargo, the new book..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Tall Tales and Texas Rising

Fact battles fiction in new History Channel miniseries

"...never expected to be at this place. He's a novelist with a tilt toward the historical. A stubborn novelist...."

May 22, 2015 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

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