The Absinthe-minded Professors of Violet Crown Spirits

Three Austinites are producing the first Texas-made absinthe

"...our white absinthe first. I went through the historical literature and found recipes for absinthe or absinthe-like products from..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Write On

"...Her book about Jewel Babb at Indian Hot Springs, Texas, Border Healing Woman, is truly a classic of Texas..."

Sept. 17, 2015 Postmarks

Anti-Choice Group Doubles Down on HB 2

Letter warns hospital admitting privileges will lead to protests

"...services will continue to be suspended at clinics across Texas. But like activist Veruca Salts, they don't care how,..."

Nov. 20, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

TBF Announces Schedule,
'Chron' Announces Media Onslaught

Making Texas Book Festival prep easy for you

"...With just one month to go until the Texas Book Festival, it's time to hit the books...."

Sept. 16, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Tier One Tantrums

Young Conservatives tout Neo-Con group's study opposing more research

"...majority of State House Republicans, the Young Conservatives of Texas oppose it, and tout a study equating Tier One..."

Oct. 28, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

New Fest

Why the Texas Book Festival decided to loosen its criteria

"...get out of having to take more education and literature courses. "Seriously pursuing writing was a big risk for..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

In Person

In a fast-paced two days late last month at the Red Lion Inn, the most successful writers conference in the Writers' League history saw some 200-plus writers get the hard-knock world of real publishing described to them gently but firmly by a dozen agents and editors from both coasts.

"...submissions that it sometimes seems impossible to actually enjoy literature or establish the kind of relationships that got them..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Books Feature by Ric Williams

Five Recommended Art Events This Weekend

How can you lose with a sweet list to use before it's time to choose?

"...wyrm lately birthed upon the burgeoning ‘scape of Austin, Texas, where you for reasons unfathomed still deign to live...."

Jan. 26, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pleasantville

Attica Locke's stylish novel proves she knows how to craft a fiendishly intricate detective story

"...– as genre fiction, as social criticism, and as literature. Locke currently writes for the hit TV show Empire,..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Molly Odintz

A Poet's Paper Trail

Billy Collins' archives acquired in advance of Austin appearance

"...of this week's major announcement that the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center has acquired the popular poet’s archive...."

Jan. 21, 2014 Books Post by Amy Smith

Nacogdoches Gothic

Joe R. Lansdale talks Bubba horror at Feral Cinema (Video)

"...the man who is the devil and angel of Texas literature (see video from the event here.)..."

June 19, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Control

Gretchen Phillips admits she wasn’t Just Comforting that girl

"...shares with longtime love Ann Cvetkovich, a University of Texas literature professor and sometime go-go dancer, holds vinyl, CD,..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Music Feature by Cindy Widner

Temples and Playgrounds

Previewing the 2007 Texas Book Festival, Nov. 3-4

"...took the class they thought it was exclusively a literature class. When they found out they had to write..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Summer Reading

In Texas

"...alien worlds has been a mainstay of science fiction literature since Camille Flammarion's Lumen was published in 1887. With..."

May 28, 2004 Books Feature by Rick Klaw

New Fest

Why the Texas Book Festival decided to loosen its criteria

"...studies at NYU and her co-founding of Women in Literature and Letters...."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Postscripts

Books can heal your soul and there are several ways to do so in the upcoming weeks in Austin. Also, this year's Violet Crown Award winners.

"...Tarleton State University professor, for his State of Mind: Texas Literature and Culture, in the poetry and prose category;..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Louis Sachar: Top of His Class

"...Foundation awarded the National Book Award for Young People's Literature to Sachar's book, Holes. And in February of this..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

An Easy Read

NPrint Brings Books to TV

"...an odd juxtaposition, using such an anti-intellectual approach to literature -- an art form that has resisted the mass..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Screens Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

Crawl With the Authors of Your Favorite Books

The Texas Book Festival's Lit Crawl gets weird & boozy with 'em

"...Of course, because it started in San Francisco, it..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Casual Victim Pile II

SXSW 2011 Picks 2 Click

"...Literature..."

March 11, 2011 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

'We've Got Climate Change'

Lee Nichols interviews UT biologist Camille Parmesan about the evidence and consequences of global warming.

"...January from the biology department of the University of Texas. In a study reported in the scientific journal Nature,..."

March 7, 2003 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...to Travis County. One of "our" districts, drawn by Texas Republicans, stretches from deep in Austin all the way..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Column

The Writing's Not on the Wall Yet

Austin's print culture gets a boost from a new batch of indie presses and literary magazines

"...magazines increasingly take the shape of ones and zeros, literature is becoming a ghost in the machine – the Kindle,..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

In Person

Helena María Viramontes

"...AC: You helped build Chicano literature, both in your literary and academic work, at a..."

April 20, 2007 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

On the Way to Anywhere

Sarah Hepola talks to the three panelists of one of the Texas Book Festival's most eagerly anticipated panels, "At the Crossroads: Mexican-American Literature."

"...endlessly anthologized, heralded as both the savior of Latino literature and everything that's wrong with it. But this will..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Hooked on Phonics

"...largely to a Bush-led effort to inject phonics into Texas' reading curriculum, the state spent $29 million on phonics..."

May 28, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Tales from the Valley

Author David Rice Interviewed

"...spent his life looking over both sides of the Texas racial fence. He knows whereof he speaks. All the..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...asserts – enormously influential in both popular culture and literature...."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...an equal opportunity to learn for all students in Texas schools, not just those students lucky enough to live..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Column

Can Tom Zigal Really Say That?

"The truth is, I didn't know a thing about the world of mystery writers and crime publishing," Tom Zigal, the author of three mystery novels, says. Chronicle writer Dick Holland discovers why Zigal might say such a thing and why it may not matter in light of Pariah, Zigal's new installment in the Kurt Muller mystery series.

"...occupies a lofty perch over at the University of Texas, writing speeches for university president Larry Faulkner. Zigal's wife,..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

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