Culinary/Literary

There's a lot to chew on at this year's Texas Book Festival

"...Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy, the crowning glory of her literary career. Both Hesser and Brown will be feted at..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Literary Lone Stars Ten Best Texas Books

"...Hollywood westerns during his final years. The first cowboy autobiography and still the best...."

Feb. 16, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Books of a Lifetime

Dawn Powell: A Biography

"...print. Now, with the publication of Dawn Powell: A Biography, he has also provided the first full-length biography of..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Books Feature

The Full Franklin

It's been 60 years since a biograpy of Benjamin Franklin has been written; Austin author H.W. Brands' The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin makes up for lost time.

"...As Brands' biography, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Mary Shelley

Biopic of Frankenstein's creator lacks spark.

"...borne by Mary’s stepsister Claire) sealed her place in literary history. Still, her popular reputation pales in comparison to..."

June 22, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Invisible Woman

The woman who must remain invisible in this drama is Nelly Ternan, an actress who's not only the mistress of married Charles Dickens, but also 27 years his junior.

"...Based on Claire Tomalin’s biography that pieces together this love affair based on diaries,..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sylvia

Sylvia Plath biopic is sad dirge.

"...martyr. That her unfaithful ex Hughes became the tight-fisted literary executor of her estate (and poet laureate of England)..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lit-urday: Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

All the single ladies: Edna, Edith, Neith, Maeve, Char ... and Kate

"...its focus for an intensely personal memoir mixed with literary biography. I missed the potency of Bolick’s original piece..."

May 16, 2015 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Postscripts

How Frances Kiernan, author of Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy, "stumbled" across the idea of writing the book.

"...one day and suggested that she should write a biography of Eudora Welty. "She's too private," Kiernan said, "but..."

March 2, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

This meticulous biography paints a stunning portrait of the late-blooming English author

"...Hermione Lee's meticulous biography paints a stunning portrait of a charming yet enigmatic..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Arts Feature by Melanie Haupt

Fun for the Whole Family

Traversing the Texas Book Festival

"...panel Writing About Writers for an engaging discussion about literary biography – its frustrations and satisfactions, its methodology, and..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...with more than 150 authors joining the Lone Star literary jamboree through some screen or other...."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2017

Lovers of the literary, you’re needed at the Capitol for this year’s TBF, stat!

"...and all types of books – literature, true crime, biography, cooking, mystery, politics, science fiction & fantasy, Western, poetry,..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Illumine Honorees Announced

Douglas Brinkley, Sarah Bird, Joe Ely to be awarded

"...Foundation shines a light on Texas’ big hitters in literary achievement with its second annual Illumine Awards...."

Aug. 19, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: Anglophilia

Reading lists from Legeland's token Brit

"...give a fun insight into the inner workings and literary habits of a Chronicle writer," they said...."

Dec. 6, 2010 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

The American Voice

Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections," and other new releases

"...Reading Nancy Milford's literary biography, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Books Feature by Maria Hong

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

"...leaving a reader awed, it must pull off a literary hat trick of astounding complexity. In ascending order these..."

June 25, 1999 Books Feature

Book Reviews

"...life of Larry McMurtry, another book, Crazy Horse, a biography of the famous Sioux warrior, appears, short-circuiting any hand..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Books Review

Devil in the Details

Why Is 'Talented Amateur Historian' Leon Day Obsessed With the Death of Ambrose Bierce?

"...glory in its place." He became "a sort of literary cult leader" who never forgot that the end result..."

May 17, 2002 Books Feature by James McWilliams

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...Lee Hill's new biography, A Grand Guy: The Art and Life of Terry..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Cassady, Kerouac, and Other Dharma Bums Back Beats by Jennifer Scoville and Dave Cook

"...of the pre-hippie hip, who've come out of the literary boys' club to reveal secrets as only women can...."

May 26, 1995 Books Feature

The Capote Tapes

A literary life of oblivious self-destruction

"...period of time, he succeeded. A critical darling in literary circles and essential fixture of the Manhattan social scene,..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The City of Your Final Destination

Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are among the co-stars of this James Ivory-directed film about a dead novelist's reclusive family.

"...authorization from a dead novelist’s relatives to write a biography of him. His initial query was rejected by the..."

June 11, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Writes of Winter

"...of 1994, Ken Foster took a job as volunteer literary events coordinator for a second-floor bar in Manhattan known..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Books Review

Unraveling Shakespeare's Life

Dr. James Shapiro tackles the Bard one slice at a time

"...I've been practicing since 1988 a different kind of biography &ndash some people call it micro-biography, that sounds too..."

March 23, 2012 Books Post by Robert Faires

Ifs, Ands, or Butts

British Modernist Mary Butts

"...Cleopatra. Now the company has given us Blondel's substantial biography of Butts as well as Ashe of Rings and..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Books Feature by Harvey Pekar

The Land of Laughs

"...drab, workshopped realism that constitutes so much of today's literary fiction? Or is it a backhanded compliment, hailing the..."

April 13, 2001 Books Review by Shannon McCormick

Making Lists

"...was appropriate recognition of his important role in Texas literary matters, as a memoirist, fiction writer, and influential book..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...Perhaps the very fact that this is an "authorized" biography is the problem -- too much cooperation from the..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

Top Books

Hard-Boiled Top Ten

"...not only crime novels but a memoir and a biography or two as well...."

Jan. 10, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

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