Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway

Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?

"...God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, the spoken autobiography of a brilliant, illiterate black sharecropper. Shaw's dates are..."

July 25, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Morrissey

"...In his 2013 autobiography, Morrissey reveals that he nearly killed his mother during..."

July 18, 2014 Music Review by Neph Basedow

Austin African American Book Festival

Biographer Arnold Rampersad headlines the eighth edition, focusing on inspiration for change

"...1pm: Sen. David Jordan The Mississippi senator discusses his autobiography, From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate,..."

June 27, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Pillow" Talk

Terri Thomas on what's behind the sex in her Big Medium art show

"...Austin Chronicle: Seemingly, every autobiography and self-portrait has had accusations leveled at it concerning..."

June 5, 2014 Arts Post by Seth Orion Schwaiger

The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

Hooky follows up Joy Division with money-hemorrhaging Madchester club

"...a comedy of errors. As per the Joy Division autobiography, his pack-rat retention of every receipt, report, and set..."

May 30, 2014 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Eels = E = Mark Oliver Everett

Naked ‘Cautionary Tales’ Friday at the Paramount

"...AC: Has writing an autobiography informed your songwriting at all?..."

May 15, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

The Pen May Be Mightier Than the Sword, but Sometimes It Makes You Want to Slit Your Wrists

The Austin Film Society's latest series zooms in on creative block

"...make a movie" procedural shaped by his own raw autobiography (the title tallies the six features and three shorts..."

May 2, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Long Journey Home

The Houston Kid comes full circle

"...In fact, the autobiography serves as catalyst for Crowell's creative rejuvenation. Following his..."

April 18, 2014 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Jon Langford & Skull Orchard

"...the closest that Langford has ever come to explicit autobiography. (12mid, Rowdy's Saloon)..."

March 14, 2014 Music Review by Scott Schinder

Playback – SXSW: Zero Hour

SXSW started early this year, but now – as usual – everything hits at once

"...thorough self-examination of the Chicago four, Book includes a mini-autobiography from each member, priceless photos, an epic list of..."

March 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

"Evolution of a Criminal'

This is a remarkably honest and insightful autobiography

March 14, 2014 Screens Feature by Jordan Smith

SXSW Thursday Interviews

Busting out with six Thursday SXSW interviews

"...in my own life and the sort of fictional autobiography of White Lighter. It was driving me a little..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

SXSW Film Review: 'The Dance of Reality'

The fantastical director's first foray in 23 years is a family affair

"...Sangre, The Dance of Reality is based on Jodorowsky's autobiography, and in particular his wild childhood. You could even..."

March 12, 2014 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

SXSW Interview: Neil Young

Rocker’s PonoMusic aims for highest quality digital music

"...high-quality digital music to the masses in his 2012 autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, Neil Young’s PonoMusic is slowly moving..."

March 11, 2014 Music Post by Greg Beets

SXSW Film Review: 'Evolution of a Criminal'

This is a remarkably honest and insightful autobiography

"...subject of this moving film – a remarkably honest autobiography of a bad choice and its aftermath, an insightful..."

March 9, 2014 SXSW Post by Jordan Smith

Letters at 3AM: February 1914

Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp was really born in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice,' not 'Mabel's Strange Predicament,' as commonly thought

"...world's first feature-length comedy, gets short shrift in Chaplin's autobiography, but to Sydney he wrote in 1914: "It is..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

The AggreGAYtor: January 17

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Laverne Cox is writing an autobiography; it’s already in our must-read lists...."

Jan. 17, 2014 Qmmunity Post

Vinyl’s Tin Cup Chalice

Finyl vinyl thoughts from the stacks of Antone’s Records

"...Reading Buffett’s nearly 500-page autobiography beginning in Port Aransas and then Florida, 1997’s A..."

Jan. 15, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Pledge Your Allegiance

Austin Film Society lets two iconic filmmakers square off in its new series

"...he gets his dishonorable discharge from the army (more autobiography), Antoine practically gallops to the nearest bordello. Moving at..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Sayles Talk

More on the making of 'Go for Sisters' from John Sayles

"...of writing about anybody else, if it's not self-confessional autobiography, is pretentious. You're pretending. You're trying to figure out..."

Dec. 7, 2013 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

Linda Ronstadt stays on point – the music

"...emphasize the scene's ego and excess, but Linda Ronstadt's autobiography lives up to its subtitle, focusing upon the singer's..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Scott Schinder

Headlines

"...earlier she announced that she will be releasing her autobiography through Penguin Random House next fall...."

Nov. 15, 2013 News Feature

Last Housecore on the Left

Horror film fest's extreme metal soundtrack

"...friend Corey Mitchell visited to collaborate on Anselmo's upcoming autobiography...."

Oct. 25, 2013 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Huffington's Solution: More Meditation and Wonder

HuffPo head wants us all to have a better attitude

"...his funeral, Apple founder Steve Jobs had Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi distributed to the mourners...."

Oct. 25, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Man Behind the Leatherface Mask

Gunnar Hansen signing "Chain Saw Confidential" at Bookpeople Sunday

"...29, with a signing at Bookpeople of his new autobiography Chain Saw Confidential: How we Made the World's Most..."

Sept. 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Peter Hook: Life in a Northern Town

Joy Division/New Order bassist resurrects two classic LPs

"...AC: In your autobiography (Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division), you write that you..."

Sept. 17, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Darkness in the Heart of Town

Will Sheff, one step forward, two steps back

"...started thinking that maybe I should've made a childhood autobiography record instead of I Am Very Far."..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Skydog

'Skydog' scrapes together a mother lode of Duane Allman

"...Memphis musician/producer Jim Dickinson is quoted in Keith Richards' autobiography Life as saying Duane acquired the nickname "Skydog" because..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Soundtrack of My Life

Record executive Clive Davis loved Whitney Houston best

"...Beyond that, The Soundtrack of My Life is less autobiography than a chronicle of Davis' five decades running the..."

June 21, 2013 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs: Portraits of a Musical Life

Those looking for mentions of Jeff Tweedy should turn elsewhere

"...Jay Farrar's memoir reads less as an autobiography than as a series of stream of consciousness vignettes..."

June 21, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

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