SXSW Film & TV Festival Announces Jury & Special Awards

Bob Trevino Likes It, Grand Theft Hamlet win top prizes

"...feature film directorial debut confronts a sobering and all-too-relevant history with a sly sense of absurdity and the camaraderie..."

March 14, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

HBO Docuseries God Save Texas Offers a Personal Lens on the Lone Star State in Crisis

Texas filmmakers confront hard truths about home

"...Based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Lawrence Wright, the..."

Jan. 28, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Origin

Ava DuVernay's plainly spoken look at the underpinnings of bigotry

"...behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson's essential 2020 nonfiction book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, which explores..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Five Themes at This Year’s Texas Book Festival

What’s hot, what’s intriguing, and who’s gonna be at the annual literary bonanza

"...and constitutional law expert Stephen Vladeck (The Shadow Docket). History Makers..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Arts Column by Kimberley Jones

A New Chapter for Austin’s Small Bookstores

From serving neighborhoods to serving wine, how innovative local booksellers are filling the shelves

"...(and Texas) residents with a renewed excitement about literature, history, culture, and the written word in general, it seems..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Five Film Books From Austin

From Pinocchio to psychotic women, your gift guide for reading material

"...new book, Alison Macor, author of definitive Austin movie history Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids, salutes William Wyler's 1947..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces First 2023 Speakers

Olympian and entrepreneur Allyson Felix, Cecile Richards, more

"...and the most decorated Track & Field Olympian in history Allyson Felix and host of the No One Is..."

Aug. 30, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival Announces Omar Epps for 2022 Lineup

First author list includes Angie Cruz, Sandra Brown, more

"...• The festival will include nonfiction writers such as Vishwesh Bhatt, who will present I..."

July 13, 2022 Arts Post by Kaushiki Roy

Nomadland

Story of America's itinerant population wanders too much

"...Even though the film is based on Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, Nomadland..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Book Festival Announces 15 Authors for 2020

Virtual fest hosting Dean Koontz, Julia Alvarez, Kevin Kwan

"...On the nonfiction front, Brockovich is getting the country to wake up..."

Aug. 12, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Mayor's Book Club Says: "Read Local"

The 2020 choice? Three dozen books, all by Austin authors

"...pandemic. The three dozen-plus titles cover adult fiction and nonfiction, YA fiction, middle-grade chapter books, children's books and picture..."

July 2, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Vision 2020: Austin Books We're Looking Forward to in the New Year

Some local writers' books due out in 2020 we're eager to read

"...Think Lawrence Wright and books, and you think nonfiction – works such as Going Clear, Thirteen Days in..."

Jan. 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Janine Barchas’ The Lost Books of Jane Austen

In this nonfiction book, the local scholar provides fresh insight into the ways that Jane Austen became Jane Austen, literary superstar

"...novels (see Barchas' Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity) and even digitally reconstructing prominent art..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, and 300 more

"...Weil Conjectures; award-winning historian H.W. Brands with his new history of the American West, Dreams of El Dorado; psychologist..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

Casey Cep solves the mystery of the true crime book that Harper Lee never wrote

"...to be a true whodunit – especially if it's nonfiction, reported after the facts have been paraded around in..."

July 19, 2019 Arts Review by Rosalind Faires

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Real Story of Lolita

Sarah Weinman on the true crime story behind Nabokov’s novel

"...inquired about what led Weinman to write her latest nonfiction book. Weinman described a precocious youth – reading her..."

Oct. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

Review: Berlin

At last complete, Jason Lutes' graphic novel is a masterpiece

"...Lutes is now able to talk about the 18-year history of creating this masterwork. And the Texas Book Festival..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Music on the Page at the Texas Book Festival

Music books strut their feminism, hip-hop, and emo

"...in the output of underrepresented storytelling on national music history...."

Oct. 26, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...will have his reporter's hat on for his new nonfiction book Beautiful Country Burn Again, a look back at..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

True Life, Unfiltered

New mini-fest AFS Doc Days scours the globe for fresh viewpoints

"...now, there has not been a singular home for nonfiction storytelling. Austin Film Society is finally providing that specialty..."

May 11, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Chronicle’s 2017 Holiday Political Survival Guide

Borscht in a Bag, a male chastity belt, and more gifts to get you through the rut

"...she also has a distinguished record of work on history and natural history, the environment, and environmental activism. Wherever..."

Dec. 8, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...Nonfiction has just as much to tempt you. Veteran journalist..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Ta-Nehisi Coates for SXSW 2018

Plus Teen Vogue, The Daily Show, and Charlie Rose

"...as well as the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction winner for his book Between the World and Me,..."

Aug. 30, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Lost City of Z

A futile quest for an extraordinary place

"...on white-hot New Yorker journalist David Grann’s 2009 bestselling nonfiction book, this endeavor also comes nowhere close to the..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

SXSW Film Review: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

Biographical doc tamely depicts a vigorous life

"...Tales of Armistead Maupin, but those who see the nonfiction feature in theatres are unlikely to notice this, as..."

March 13, 2017 SXSW Post by Sean L. Malin

In Memoriam: Gary Cartwright

Time to "Turn Out the Lights" for the Texas Mad Dog writer

"...and the FBI's Biggest Investigation (1984), and Galveston: A History of the Island (1991). You might even be tempted..."

March 2, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Eye Wide Open on Lance Letscher

With two major solo shows and a new documentary about him, the Austin collage artist readies to be seen in a new way

"...unique artist's story at a pivotal moment in Austin's history." Yet she was surprised to discover that Letscher –..."

March 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Sean L. Malin

Did Shearwater Cut the Best Protest Album of 2016?

Jonathan Meiburg calls out new America's scary monsters

"...telephone the day after Thanksgiving, he was at a nonfiction writer's retreat in upstate New York, where he took..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

Denial

Holocaust courtroom drama parallels contemporary issues

"...Based on a nonfiction book by Deborah Lipstadt (here played with tight-lipped outrage..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...Nonfiction? Check. Austin's favorite New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright (The..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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