In Memoriam: Bill Wittliff
Legendary writer/photographer/collector/benefactor dead at 79
"...his 56th wedding anniversary with his wife Sally, William Wittliff – oh, let's just call him "Bill" – suffered..."
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June 12, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Made Pictures
The Photos of the Wittliff Gallery & Mariana Yampolsky
"...Marcos celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Southwestern Writers Collection and the inauguration of the new Wittliff Gallery of..."
Oct. 25, 1996 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen
Making Waves
Austin Screenwriter Bill Wittliff Discusses The Perfect Storm
"...which smells of cigarette smoke and well-worn leather, Bill Wittliff is talking about how some things don't. Grief. Love...."
June 30, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola
Photographer Melinda Wickman Swearingen, Whose Images Defined Outlaw Country, Has Died
The Texan famously snapped Waylon, Willie, and more
"...“Melinda Wickman Swearingen: Outlaw Odyssey,” an exhibit at the Wittliff Collections, which is free and open to the public..."
March 26, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson
Framing the Border
Photography of the Region Between Mexico and the U.S.
"...making Central Texas an increasingly important center for the collection, study, and display of photography of Texas and Mexico...."
May 1, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen
Day Trips & Beyond: Mid-October Roundup
Travel news from around Texas and beyond
"...tunes. In honor of the Grammy-winning band’s anniversary, the Wittliff Collection at Texas State University in San Marcos has..."
Oct. 17, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
Riding the 'Wave'
Bud Shrake compacts his far-flung, storied career in his new collection
"...Steven L. Davis, assistant curator for the Southwestern Writers Collection, author of Texas Literary Outlaws, and editor of new..."
April 25, 2008 Books Feature by Spencer Parsons
A House of My Own: Stories From My Life
In this collection of essays, letters, lectures, and more, Sandra Cisneros opens wide the doors to the house of her life
"...In this collection of letters, essays, lectures, and photographs, we see a..."
Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Melanie Haupt
Terry Allen Reels in Moby Dick for His New Album
The multimedia conceptualist's first new studio album since 2013 sets sail
"...his friend's ashes, which will be unveiled at the Wittliff Collection in San Marcos later this year...."
Feb. 7, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman
Trailer Park Goes Local
'Shepard and Dark,' plus a new Drafthouse Films acquisition
"...The screening is timed to coincide with a new Wittliff Collection exhibit in San Marcos, "The Writer's Road: Selections..."
May 23, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese
Karen Russell Reads in Central Texas
San Marcos today, Kyle tomorrow
"...giving a reading this afternoon at Texas State University's Wittliff Collections at 3:30pm...."
April 18, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese
Shepherding Shepard
The material legacy of playwright Sam Shepard calls Central Texas home
"...Sam Shepard exhibition on display at Texas State University's Wittliff Collections, you'll come face-to-face with a striking photograph of..."
Dec. 6, 2013 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts
In Memoriam: Sam Shepard
The late writer-actor left lots of himself in Central Texas
"...The Wittliff Collections at Texas State in San Marcos is home..."
Aug. 3, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires
The Art of the Business of Art
Gallery owners David Berman, Wally Workman, and Steve Clark talk about their lives promoting artists and selling art
"...be Houston. We're not going to have a Menil Collection or a de Menil family or the Nashers in..."
July 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin
Wittliffs at Work
"...What do the Wittliffs do in their spare time, when they're not busy..."
Oct. 25, 1996 Arts Feature
A Sense of Place
For two decades, Stephen L. Clark's gallery has made a home for photographers of the region
"...kind by the artists who made them – Bill Wittliff, Kate Breakey, Keith Carter, and Sean Perry, respectively –..."
Oct. 18, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Short Cuts
"...Bill Wittliff is a man of many hats. He is a..."
Dec. 25, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten
'Between Heaven and Texas' and 'La Vida Brinca'
Two from UT Press
"...by Bill Wittliff..."
May 26, 2006 Books Review by Cindy Widner
Day Trips
Texas-born Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine Anne Porter left a literary legacy
"...program, says Connie Todd, curator at the Alkek Library's Wittliff Collections...."
Dec. 18, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Cormac McCarthy to Settle Down 'The Road'
Texas State acquires the papers of Texas' most famously reclusive writer
"...acquisition of Cormac McCarthy's papers for its Southwestern Writers Collection, part of the Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library..."
Jan. 18, 2008 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones
Screen Trash
Garbage Stands Out from the Rubbish Heap
"...mutual hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, Byck and co-writer/actor Derich Wittliff drove through the dumps of Mississippi to Louisiana's famed..."
March 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Day Trips: Top 10s
A look back at 2019
"...• Ruby City opened in San Antonio. The vision..."
Dec. 20, 2019 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
News/Print
Sci-fi, slam, and sainted stoners: what's happening in books this week
"...on Monday, Aug. 17, from 8 to 11pm... The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos haven't..."
Aug. 14, 2009 Books Column by Kimberley Jones
Short Cuts
The skies still may not be all that friendly, but at least hanging out at in the airport terminal's gotten better.
"...two local filmmaker/writers -- William Broyles Jr. and Bill Wittliff -- are on loan from the Southwestern Writers Collection..."
Sept. 6, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov
The Hightower Report
Words for Wall Street Greed; and Corporatist Court Favors Mountaintop Destruction
"...week, Jim Hightower donated his personal archives to the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos. Known as the..."
March 13, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower
Thirty Years on Location
An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.
"...bank of location information and a comprehensive (and voluminous) collection of photographs depicting literally every corner of the state...."
June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Texas Book Festival 2014: The Full Party List
Among the 275 authors: Oates, Ellroy, Mosley, Lear, Dean
"...astonishingly prolific Joyce Carol Oates, whose latest short fiction collection Lovely, Dark Deep, out this week, follows fast on..."
Sept. 11, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires
Off the Record
Asylum Street Spankers' last laugh
"...photography accompanies If I Was a Highway, the latest collection of essays by Chronicle columnist Michael Ventura (see "The..."
April 22, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell
Imagined Mexico
A personal guide to three exhibits on Mexico through one bifurcated perspective
"...all manner of ephemera from the center's extensive film collections...."
April 16, 2010 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta
World of Books
The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival
"...of Hertzog, and closer to home, that of Bill Wittliff's now-defunct Encino Press...."
