Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery – an Excerpt

In this chapter from her book, Erica C. Barnett describes the point when her life became a shrinking circle

"...Erica C. Barnett, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC...."

July 10, 2020 Arts Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Animal Kingdom

"...GoGo PenguinWed. 15, the Main II, 9pm; Thu. 16, St. David's..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

But Take Great Care, for Maybe She’s a Sort of Basilisk

Author Ottessa Moshfegh at BookPeople on Tuesday night

"...to have an author photo on the jacket,” the Penguin publicist Elisabeth Calamari tells me. “Not because she’s vain,..."

Jan. 30, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ex-Punk Author, DIY or Die Forever

Test-driving the newest iBooks Author app (bumps ahead)

"...a trip through evolving technology. Originally published by Viking Penguin in 1989, it's a hardboiled detective novel set in..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Jim Carrey plays a man who inherits six penguins in this family film that finds the actor neither too manic nor mawkish.

"...Gregg. The good news is that in Mr. Popper’s Penguins Jim Carrey is neither in his ridiculous mode where..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let Them Meatcake!

Here's the best from 17 years of Dame Darcy's comic-book Meatcake

"...because of that Illustrated Jane Eyre she did for Penguin in 2006? Well, ye gods and little fishes, friend,..."

Oct. 5, 2010 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Longlist for Man Booker Prize Announced

A dozen authors - including some repeat performers - make the cut

"...Helen Dunmore: The Betrayal (Penguin - Fig Tree)..."

July 27, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...the Joker (Cesar Romero), the Riddler (Frank Gorshin), the Penguin (Burgess Meredith), and Catwoman (Lee Meriwether) has shanghaied an..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

A Town Called Panic

This whimsical, Belgian import is an animated stop-motion fantasy that uses childhood toys as characters who find themselves in all manner of goofy yet compelling adventures.

"...they do get into a really, really cool giant penguin robot at one point). The animation itself is superb,..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Old Dogs

Mork and Vinny Barbarino star in this witless comedy about middle-aged men caring for a couple of 7-year-olds.

"...with a calamitous game of “prison rules” Frisbee, a penguin attack, and a manic (and probably the film’s funniest)..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Academy Award-Nominated Animated Shorts 2009

The Academy gets animated.

"...shows a makeup session between a courting bear and penguin; “Skhizein” (by Jérémy Clapin of France), which details the..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

March of the Banned Penguins

Let my Penguins go!

"...Tango Makes Three, the story of a pair of penguin dudes who foster an egg to hatching is again,..."

May 13, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Shutter

Shutter is a shabby American remake of a Thai movie about a couple who sees mysterious images in photographs.

"...probably turn up as well, looking like Danny DeVito's Penguin sans eyeballs.) That's what is known as getting some..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chewing Up the Scenery

Last thoughts on Planet Earth

"...these have now acquired an unexpected taste for blubber-rich penguins," Attenborough tells us during "Shallow Seas," as the former..."

May 25, 2007 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Omnivore's Dilemma

The decisions we make regarding what foods we buy, where we buy them, and how we eat them have implications that touch on environmental, political, economic, moral, health, and agricultural issues

"...Penguin Press, 450 pp., $26.95..."

June 9, 2006 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Flight Patterns

The Texas Documentary Tour: Judy Irving's 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill'

"...that. Someday. And sometimes I do – saw the penguin film, saw Grizzly Man – but, despite my best..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

All in the Delivery

Penn Jillette on 'The Aristocrats'

"...that don't get it, they should go see the penguin movie. They really should. I love the penguin movie...."

Aug. 26, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Ladykillers

The Coen brothers remake a British comedy classic starring Tom Hanks in a flamboyantly love-him-or-hate-him performance.

"...by everything from Burgess Meredith’s old Batman nemesis the Penguin to the self-conscious acting style you’d expect to find..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Person

The first book Jasper Fforde remembers reading, he told the smiling crowd at BookPeople, is Alice in Wonderland. Which explains an awful lot.

"...from his latest book, The Well of Lost Plots (Penguin, $24.95), in which Thursday goes to live inside a..."

March 12, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Short Attention Span Festival

"...character gone sinister in "Butchu-Kan"; weird things that a penguin does for fun in "South Pole"; and more...."

Nov. 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life A.D.

Former Austin Sun writer Bill Bentley says a prayer for Doug Sahm

"...you asked drummer Richard "Eh Eh" Elizondo, aka the Penguin. After three days in a '58 bus with 10..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Poké Who?

"...Badtz Maru (Bad and Good) is a mischievous little penguin living in Gorgeoustown with his pinball-playing father. A favorite..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Features Feature by Anna Hanks

Saint Augustine

Chronicle reviewer Bruce McCandless asks why Garry Wills' short biography of St. Augustine, the latest addition to the Penguin Lives series, is necessary -- and finds some intriguing answers.

"...rest of Saint Augustine, the latest title in Viking's Penguin Lives series of short biographies...."

Sept. 3, 1999 Books Review by Bruce McCandless

Matthew Vaughn and the Mystery of the Real Author of Argylle

Director discusses "surreal" TikTok conspiracies

"...Conway has just released her first Argylle book through Penguin/Random House...."

Feb. 2, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Truth to Father Christmas

"...It is a keeper! And so darn true! The penguin character voiced my thoughts and frustrations precisely while talking..."

Jan. 3, 2024 Postmarks

Qmmunity: Top Five Scene Shakers

Qmmunity counts five major queer scene shake-ups in 2023

"...market. Featuring Bat City Bootblack Brigade, Baron von Soap, Penguin After Dark, Twisted Artisan, 2V1 Dark Works, Knotting Kittie,..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Column by James Scott

Fantastic Fest Review: The People's Joker

Transgressive trans satire of superheroes is a victory for good

"...she starts an alt-comedy club with her castmate, the Penguin (Nathan Faustyn). There she comes into her own, working..."

Sept. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Fantastic Fest Review: The Toxic Avenger

Troma hero gets a joyfully idiotic big budget remake

"...a combover and kohl eyes come to post-Batman Returns Penguin life. He's also not the only Austinite that Blair..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Elise Hu Unpacks the K-Beauty Industry in Her New Book, Flawless

The former KVUE reporter and NPR bureau chief explores how algorithms are shaping South Korean society

June 30, 2023 Arts Feature by Jasmine Lane

The Gathering Storm: Robert Draper on the Post-Reality GOP

NYT writer and former Austinite sees a dark future in his new book, Weapons of Mass Delusion

"...the Republican Party Lost Its Mind by Robert Draper, Penguin Press, 400 pp., $29..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

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