Person of Interest

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

"...truth as nonfiction. You're learning how people live," says novelist Meg Wolitzer. "And you need that kind of empathy..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Books Feature by Amy Gentry

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Mordecai Richler once remarked that 'the novelist's primary moral responsibility is to be the loser's advocate.' It's difficult to imagine how anyone who takes that dictum to heart could outdo Junot Díaz here.

"...The late Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler once remarked that "the novelist's primary moral..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Books Review by Rayyan Al-Shawaf

Terms of Engagement

If 'We Can't Make It Here,' then James McMurtry's in big trouble

"...struggling, that take front and center. Like his father, novelist Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment), James' early..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Andy Langer

New Fest

Why the Texas Book Festival decided to loosen its criteria this year.

"...for the record, the Chronicle is sponsoring, features detective novelist Andrew Vachss, novelist and short story writer Mark Jude..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

In Person

At the LBJ Library Auditorium, the second of Fuentes' stops on his sweep through Austin last week, he pined: "I wish I could be ubiquitous today so that I could be here and in the Mexican Congress to see the events that occurred today."

"...The herculean Carlos Fuentes, who has served as novelist, cultural critic, and statesman for his native Mexico during..."

April 6, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

The Years With Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes says he can not imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, but it is impossible to imagine a Mexico without Fuentes.

"...vast knowledge of history and human nature, Fuentes the novelist is as qualified as any Mexican to serve as..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

The Michener Center for Writers

"...UT Austin, used to hone his skills as a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter: "Bang around, stay alive, and write."..."

April 21, 2000 Books Feature by Ric Williams

Writer-at-Large

"...down pat by means of all the techniques a novelist uses to depict place: dialogue, characterization, and landscape. That's..."

May 14, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Writes of Spring

"...been a story of talents baffled, we require the novelist's eye for the emblematic anecdote -- that story that..."

April 9, 1999 Books Review

Postscripts

Mixed Notes

"...author Neal Barrett, Jr., short story writer Tom Doyal, novelist and documentarian Jesse Sublett, GQ contributing editor and novelist..."

May 1, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

Christopher Isherwood

The Diaries

"...instantly. Bradshaw is Incapable of Error. He is the Novelist of the Future." The reason Wilmot thinks him so..."

April 4, 1997 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Usual Mayhem

A Potpourri of Book Reviews

"...Mystery novelist Kinky Friedmanphotograph by Evans Cartlage A blurb from Simon..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Books Feature

The Taste of Things

Charming touching tale of love between two middle-aged chefs in 19th-century France

"...shown, given a significance in description only matched by novelist James Joyce’s setting of the Christmas feast in “The..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Foe

Sci-fi eco thriller is just an exercise in infuriating mystery

"...the straightforward, spoiler-free distillation of Foe’s plot, co-adapted by novelist Iain Reid from his own novel with director Garth..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Anatomy of a Fall

French courtroom drama shows the truth of people is always complex

"...kind of a chaos and everybody is lost.” Acclaimed novelist Sandra Voyter (Hüller) is trying to explain the complexity..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 22-28

"...CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Novelist and astrologer Forrest E. Fickling researched which signs are..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 1-7

"...CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn playwright and novelist Rose Franken said, "Anyone can be passionate, but it..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 14-20

"...PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean novelist Peter De Vries wrote, "Sometimes I write drunk and..."

July 14, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Knock at the Cabin

M. Night Shayamalan takes on the end of the world

"...new adaptation: Knock at the Cabin, based on horror novelist Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Review: Jarrott Productions' The Sound Inside

An understated, intriguing page-turner

"...Productions, features Bella Baird (Rebecca Robinson), a lonely, middle-aged novelist, literarian, and creative writing professor at Yale who, after..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Saint Omer

French true-crime drama gives sharp insight into the immigrant experience

"...For French-born Senegalese woman Rama (Kagame), a novelist and university lecturer in Paris (and stand-in for Diop),..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

My Policeman

Harry Styles' celebrity overshadows this bloodless period drama

"...as he did in Genius, his 2016 drama about novelist Thomas Wolfe and editor Max Perkins – presents a..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 2-8

"...SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As a Scorpio, novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was rarely guilty of oversimplification. Like any..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Inu-Oh

Japanese medieval history gorgeously reimagined as a rock & roll fable

"...Edda or Maria Dahvana Headley's radical reinterpretation of Beowulf, novelist Hideo Furukawa updated the 14th-century grand historical epic Tale..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Water You Up to, Jason June?

Austin-based YA author dives into new ocean romantic comedy

"...Upon virtually meeting Austin-based young adult fiction novelist Jason June (like Mary-Kate Olsen), there is an instant..."

July 15, 2022 Qmmunity Post by Valeria Valdez

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 1-7

"...you do NOT fit this description articulated by Capricorn novelist Haruki Murakami: "You're seeking something, but at the same..."

July 1, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Barbarians

Dark trip to a genteel English dinner party gets bloody

"...on the land around the estate, for which budding novelist Adam and his family have acted as caretakers for..."

April 1, 2022 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Why we write: the creative processes of the author as a human being

"...writer, failed car salesman, unlikely pop culture icon, best-selling novelist, has-been, resurgent institution, sibling, deceased, fictionalized version of himself..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 5-11

"...GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini novelist and philosopher Muriel Barbery says, "I find this a..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 15-21

"...to go too far, for truth lies beyond," declared novelist Marcel Proust. I wouldn't normally offer that counsel to..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

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