Writers' League of Texas Announces Nominees

2008 Violet Crown Book Awards

"...Violet Crown celebrates the best in adult fiction and nonfiction, while the Teddy Awards honor children's literature. Each winning..."

Sept. 11, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Postscripts

Upcoming literary events in Austin.

"...manuals, though books of most any topic, fiction or nonfiction, can be put to use. Or donate supplies (manila..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Brand Upon the Brain

Art and advertising collide in the burgeoning genre of branded documentary

"...saw one, executives at Proctor & Gamble hired Flow Nonfiction, an Austin-based creative agency/production company, to make a film..."

July 29, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Postscripts

How to learn more about publishing, for free; and upcoming literary events in Austin.

"...30; see www.utexas.edu/utpress/html/fellow.html for applications or call 471-7233. Creative Nonfiction Conference..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

The New New Journalism: Conversations on Craft With America's Best Non-Fiction Writers

When Tom Wolfe's introduction to The New Journalism' appeared in the 1970s, did he anticipate the semantic fallout his term would create?

"...The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft..."

March 11, 2005 Books Review by Belinda Acosta

Postscripts

Neal Barrett Jr. and Bill Crawford both win the Busiest Texas Writer of 2000 Award.

"...Creative Nonfiction Conference..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Signal to Noise

An Interview With Netchick Carla Sinclair

"...directions, and as I'd already written magazine articles and nonfiction books, and co-edited my own zine, it was time..."

April 10, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Local Author Tim O'Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

'The Things They Carried' author on life, fiction, and truth

"...could seduce the reader into thinking, "Maybe I’m reading nonfiction." And then to periodically interrupt that thought by reminding..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Books Post by R.U. Steinberg

2003 Texas Book Festival Preview

"...11:45am-12:30pm Paramount TheatreAmy Tan 11:45am-12:30pm House Chamber NonfictionScott Turow..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Books Feature

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Interview With Filmmaker Errol Morris

"...of the most striking moments in Errol Morris' new nonfiction film Fast, Cheap & Out of Control comes near..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Jason Silverman

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...year traveled farther afield, as in a trio of nonfiction treats: Ben Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Where 'Friend' Is a Four-Letter Word

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin explores the fractious founding of Facebook in The Social Network

"...project, The Social Network, an adaptation of Ben Mezrich's nonfiction book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Plays With Expectations

Jake Silverstein mixes fact and fiction, funny and bleak, to dramatize one journalist's coming-of-age

"...of 2008), Silverstein makes sure I know that the nonfiction has all been vigorously fact-checked and that the fiction..."

April 16, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival 2019: The Full Lineup

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

"...HOME William Lopez SEPARATED Bojan Louis SHAPES OF NATIVE NONFICTION Aimee Lucido EMMY IN THE KEY OF CODE Kyle..."

Aug. 28, 2019 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

Lit-urday: The Noble Hustle

Colson Whitehead's latest is an underachiever

"...Colson Whitehead’s seventh book and his second work of nonfiction, began its life as “Occasional Dispatches From the Republic..."

Sept. 13, 2014 Books Post by Amy Kamp

Even Flow

The Wounded Warrior Project and MSNBC bring the war home via an Austin connection

"...Wounded is a collaboration between WWP and Flow Nonfiction, an Austin production company that specializes in cause marketing..."

July 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Life Before 'Mean Girls' and YOLO

Austin Film Society presents 'Teenage'

"...historical documentary. Coloring way outside the lines of traditional nonfiction filmmaking, the film is a riveting, sensory-overloaded representation of..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Kickstart Your Weekend: 'Bloody Work'

A 125-year-old cold case sees new light onscreen

"...bringing the story to the big screen in a "nonfiction film" called Bloody Work. His Kickstarter goal of $10,500..."

June 14, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...There were nonfiction treats, though their pleasures were more piecemeal. The incandescent..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Compose Yourself

SXSW Film announces first wave of conference sessions

"...Interactive. Austin-based Convergence speakers include Austin Kleon and Flow Nonfiction's David Modigliani and Matt Naylor...."

Oct. 26, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

It Is What It Is

The year in books

"...On the nonfiction front, our personal favorites numbered two: The Braindead Megaphone..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...Book sales are up in all genres – fiction, nonfiction, historical fiction, fictionalized nonfiction, nonfictionalized historical nonfiction, gardening. The..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

John Graves, Writer

Thoreau, like many of the modern-day nature writers, had a cause. Graves sees himself as a writer who chooses a subject.

"...a failed novelist whose lifetime output, almost entirely creative nonfiction, is slim but exceedingly impressive. Heaberlin ordered me to..."

May 25, 2007 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

In Person

Last week Edmund Morris, the author of Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, read from his controversial biography at BookPeople; Clay Smith reports from the scene.

"...by Dutch is about the parameters of fiction and nonfiction, with flimsy fiction in one corner and sturdy, trustworthy..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Originator, Not the Imitator

My Lunch With Anna Quindlen

"...selfish interest in, which is making the transition from nonfiction to fiction, from the essay to the novel...."

March 27, 1998 Books Feature by Marion Winik

1997 Violet Crown Winners Announced

"...Nonfiction:..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Books Feature

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

A commando unit takes on the Nazis in this hyperviolent Guy Ritchie action-comedy

"...of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which he adapted from Damien Lewis’ nonfiction book Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of..."

April 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Arthur the King

Inspirational story about a pro adventure racer and the street dog he meets along the way

"...dog he meets along the way. Based on the nonfiction book Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to..."

March 15, 2024 Movie Review

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

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