Top 10 Rick Perry Campaign Misfires

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"...Maxey, the only openly gay state rep in Texas history, has committed them to print. It quickly became the..."

Jan. 6, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Ten Commandments

A self-described brat ponders his sleep situation

"...I end up digging into books about baseball. For nonfiction, Crazy ‘08 by Cait Murphey is a great history..."

May 24, 2011 Books Post by Doug Freeman

Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Memphis native Sides is a great storyteller, and Hellhound often reads more like historical fiction than nonfiction

"...that Hellhound often reads more like historical fiction than nonfiction. But he's a rock-solid historian as well; all those..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Books Review by Nick Barbaro

Point Austin: Have You Heard the Dish?

The ambivalent state of political journalism

"...the Halperin and Heilemann blockbuster has been atop the nonfiction bestseller list for weeks, they eagerly noted during their..."

March 12, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds

Exploring the "notland"-scape and the human condition all at once

"...fact, expertly blurring the lines of fiction and creative nonfiction. Immediately following the first drowning-man vignette, the narrative turns..."

June 5, 2009 Books Review by Sarah Jean Billeiter

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...A sportswriter, a writer of fiction and nonfiction, a Texas myth-shaper and tale-teller, Shrake was an all-around..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...Peary The first documentary to dramatize the rich, fascinating history of American film criticism. (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

City of Refuge

It's the strength and sanctity of New Orleans and its denizens that stick in this new novel

"...his mark with Why New Orleans Matters, a cultural history of the Crescent City. Now, Piazza is back with..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Books Feature by Dan Oko

In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre

An unconventional examination of one experimental artist's life and untimely death

"...The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatreby Josh Frank with Charlie Buckholtz..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Books Feature by Yvonne Georgina Puig

Austin Jewish Book Fair

Death Becomes Her: Marion Winik

"...to this year's Texas Book Festival with her new nonfiction collection, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, a..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

Cutthroat Counterprogramming

Saturday night's the right night to like books in Austin town

"...the Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman film loosely adapted from her nonfiction piece The Orchid Thief. Alamo programmer Lars Nilsen will..."

Oct. 30, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Send Your Cheek Swab to Space

A new promotional contest for Tabula Rasa sounds like the stuff of science fiction

"...seems appropriate to continue bridging the gap between science nonfiction and the weirdness that logically follows. And it only..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Why's Everybody Always Picking On Him?

David Sedaris on nitpicky fact-checkers and spiders' thighs

"...heroin and cocaine, so I'm going to call it nonfiction." There are the Alex Heards, I guess, who say..."

June 27, 2008 Books Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Science of Sleeping Together

Mary Roach has taken on ghosts and cadavers. Now she's taking on sex.

"...footnotes, as in Bonk, where I discovered the hidden history of Pyrex as a shatterproof butt plug on the..."

April 11, 2008 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Temples and Playgrounds

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

"...of White Chickens) of his decision to pursue a nonfiction investigation of the story. "As a writer, I couldn't..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Books Feature by Spencer Parsons

Poor People

It's a noble inquiry, which makes the potential pitfalls of the endeavor more palpable to class-conscious readers.

"...to class-conscious readers. For those familiar with Vollmann's recent nonfiction Rising Up and Rising Down, as well as the..."

April 6, 2007 Books Review by Dan Oko

Best Books of 2006

"...literary year. Not wanting to settle on fiction or nonfiction, I chose a novel and a biography. Julie Phillips'..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Rick Klaw

Page Two

There's no such thing as a free road, there's no such thing as an objective documentary, and there might be no such thing as our 1,000th issue

"...Documentary simply means "nonfiction," in that the footage shown is captured rather than..."

July 16, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Being Charlie Kaufman

Will the real Charlie Kaufman please stand up?

"...New Yorker, then turned his story into the best-selling nonfiction book The Orchid Thief in 1998. Kaufman was hired..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Short Cuts

Austin Film Commission no more

"...Then on Saturday, Sept. 21, 1-4pm, at the Art History Center (Ninth and Guadalupe), Reel Women will hold a..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

PBS' documentary series P.O.V. offers a kinder, gentler (though no less provocative) brand of television.

"...television. P.O.V. (Point of View), the national showcase of nonfiction film -- or "television with a point of view"..."

June 21, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Borderline Vaudeville

Bill Crawford and Gene Fowler go off-off-off Broadway with Border Radio.

"...probably the only authors of a serious work of nonfiction, a serious work of history, that have actually turned..."

May 10, 2002 Music Feature by Clay Smith

TIL Awards

"...H. Goetzmann, the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History and American Studies at the University of Texas at..."

March 29, 2002 Books Feature

2001 Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...Level E2 of the Capitol ExtensionGreat Moments in Texas History..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature

Postscripts

Why does it matter if The Corrections author Jonathan Franzen has suffered from depression?

"...book Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History (Pantheon, $25) at Barnes & Noble Arboretum while Franzen..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...that benefit and, given that there was a 10-year history of this style, that group is neither small nor..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column

In Person

"When I was talking to my wife about coming to speak at the conference I told her that I expected to be pelted with rotten tomatoes," environmental journalist Michael Pollan said at the opening session of the Organic Trade Association's (OTA) first annual All Things Organic Conference & Trade Show, held in Austin last week. "She said, 'Well, at least they'll be really good, organic tomatoes. Hopefully, Muir Glen.'"

"...the World (Random House, $24.95), a work of literary nonfiction that elucidates the social and cultural histories of four..."

May 25, 2001 Books Feature by Maria Hong

The Art of Being Dagoberto Gilb

What's a successful writer like Dagoberto Gilb got against the establishment?

"...and this marred essay, the first of his published nonfiction pieces, is duly noted. It says, "'El Paso Perdido'..."

March 23, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

A Whale Hunt: Two Years on the Olympic Peninsula With the Makah and Their Canoe

"...a whale brings change, Robert Sullivan asks in this nonfiction account of a Native American effort to revive whale..."

March 9, 2001 Books Review by Dan Oko

Boone's Lick: A Novel

"...off his career as a fictionist. His forays into nonfiction produced two memoirs, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Review by Mark Busby

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