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"...performances are all great. Travolta demonstrates that his Pulp Fiction return to stardom was no one-trick fluke; Hackman works..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

True to the Game 2

Trust us, you'd be better off playing tiddlywinks

"...interview assignment. (The source of Gena’s wealth is a mystery. Shitloads of money just arrive at her doorstep without..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Attica Locke on Solving Crime on Highway 59

Heaven, My Home author talks her East Texas roots and the blues

"...that she's now made a setting in her crime fiction series set along Highway 59...."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Texas Book Festival's Read Warriors

Book lovers charge the Texas State Capitol this weekend

"...300 authors of all types of books – literary fiction, history, biography, cooking, mystery, true crime, YA, poetry, history,..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Border

Swedish coming out drama has a mythological bent

"...From Frankenstein's Monster onward, genre fiction has questioned what it is to be human. Gritty..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Space Between Us

There is life on Mars

"...The science is murky in this science-fiction teen romance, and the direction by Peter Chelsom (Hear..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Writer Pat Littledog

The Austin-based author of Afoot in a Field of Men is afoot again

"...father's efforts at stability. She loves the music and mystery of life. A red accordion rests in the corner...."

March 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Listen Up Philip

The director of The Color Wheel is back with this film about a narcissistic and abrasive young novelist.

"...more at home in a pulpy piece of detective fiction, one which provides clues that illuminate, if not resolve,..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

SXSW Band Announcement, Part III

1,500 of some 2,000 showcasing acts now vetted

"...Ford & the Bloom, Ruby Jane, Leopold & His Fiction, Ian McLagan, My Education, Graham Reynold’s Golden Arm Trio,..."

Jan. 7, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Fantastic Fest Tells Tales of the Long and the Short and the Tall

Short film selection from Austin to Estonia, animation to sushi

"...and wonder of Austin's celebration of alternative and genre fiction. After all, it's where a lot of film makers..."

Sept. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Stories We Tell

Canadian filmmaker and actress Sarah Polley goes looking for her biological father and comes homes with a wise and poetic documentary about the nature of truth.

"...as the writer and director of the finely wrought fiction films, Away From Her and Take This Waltz, that..."

June 7, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Social Disease

2010 was the year social media was ready for its closeup

"...That’s all been fodder for fiction, or docudrama in the case of The Social Network...."

Jan. 5, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Da Vinci Code

Faithful adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller treats the novel as if it were a sacred text even though it's basically a Hardy Boys mystery dressed up in provocative attire.

"...and other word games Brown employed to unravel its fictional mystery about the true identity of the Holy Grail...."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Adventures in Crime and Space Closes

"...publishers. Everything was supposed to be out of the mystery and science fiction store by Sunday, March 31, but..."

April 5, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postscripts

Texas Writers Month is here and that means … lots and lots of Texas writers speaking at a multitude of events.

"...at Adventures from 3-4:30pm... Other Times, Other Places, with mystery writers who set their works in ancient Egypt and..."

May 5, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Postscripts

Texas -- not just the place, but the idea -- is always being celebrated in some way, it seems. But Texas writers are often behind the scenes, which is why last week's spate of events celebrating Texas writers has seemed so odd, and compelling.

"...de la Teja; and novelist Bill Crider, whose new mystery A Ghost of a Chance: A Sheriff Dan Rhodes..."

April 21, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Open Your Eyes

"...difficult to figure out. Amenábar combines elements of science fiction, horror, and German Expressionism with the more traditional elements..."

April 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reflections

"...McGuffin, much like that strange glowing suitcase in Pulp Fiction. As Martyn struggles to dispose of this sudden corpse,..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Postscripts

"...a new writer who has published a first book, fiction or non-fiction, at age 40 or later, not $10,000..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

Books That Keep on Giving

Does It Come in Paperback?

"...bookshelves. These compact hardback books offer a variety of fiction -- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Moll Flanders..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

A Conversation with Stephen Harrigan Telling Ghost Stories

"...arrived. What you can't quite see. That sense of mystery is what has always impelled me...."

Aug. 25, 1995 Arts Feature by Robin Bradford

An Austin D.A. Turns to Detective Novels

Q&A with Mark Pryor on his Paris-set Hugo Marston mysteries

"...musician Johnny Goudie. On Oct. 12, he'll add published mystery novelist to his list of accomplishments with the release..."

Oct. 10, 2012 Books Post by Jordan Smith

A Twist at the End Reviewed

"...out in his author's note that his work is fiction, above all else, although he "[has] portrayed those murders..."

April 7, 2000 Books Feature by Mike Shea

Austin's Noir at the Bar Presents Stuart Neville

Irish author of Those We Left Behind trades shots with fellow crime writers Mike McCrary, Jesse Sublett, and Gabino Iglesias

"...coast to coast, has authors who specialize in crime fiction read from their work where the kind of stuff..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

July Is Crime Month: Noir at the Bar

Hard liquor and hardboiled writers mix it up at Opal's South

"...coast to coast, has authors who specialize in crime fiction read from their work where the kind of stuff..."

July 7, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Birds of America

Austin transplant Alex Karpovsky blends fact and fiction in his funny, heady tracking of the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker

"...story, the film blends tragedy with comedy, truth with fiction, pathos with absurdity, and the result will have you..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

2001 Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...11:30am Room E2.014 Level E2 of the Capitol ExtensionShort Fiction: Lionel G. Garcia10:45 to 11:15am Children's Chapter Read Me..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...for the first time, first hoping to unravel the mystery of her disappearance, and then to seek justice, find..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: Gazing Into The Vast of Night

Director Andrew Patterson's cosmic debut is turning the right heads

"...Jeff Nichols. The Vast of Night is an alien mystery drama set in a small New Mexico town in..."

Sept. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Titan of the Telecaster Bill Kirchen

The guitarist settles in Austin but flies Transatlanticana

"...and the band named after an episode of a science-fiction film serial pioneered an amalgam of country, rock, swing,..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

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