C. Robert Cargill’s Journey From Writing About Film to Making Blockbusters

Something sinister, something strange from Dr. Strange scribe

"...and Other Stories, a collection of horror short stories published this week. Lurking within the anthology are small-town Armageddons,..."

June 15, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Reader's Field Guide to Michael Noll

The Austin writer behind The Writer's Field Guide

"...it best himself: “This book wouldn’t exist without Austin.” Published in late February by local press A Strange Object,..."

April 4, 2018 Arts Post by Katarina Brown

Austin Energy's Quest to Bring Solar Power to Renters and the Less Wealthy

What can new incentive programs and community solar projects do for the city's most abundant energy source?

"...A study published in October by nonprofit 1PlanetSol confirmed that the city's..."

Nov. 24, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Turk Pipkin's Book of the Every Other Month Club

When you subscribe to this service, you get six volumes, Kenya gets three libraries

"...the six are all being written by Pipkin and self-published by him and distributed by him. And he's releasing..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Howard Waldrop, Upright & Writing

Five decades into his career, the brilliant science fiction writer still isn’t taking any shortcuts

"...and Tom Reamy – founded the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. A haven for sci-fi writers, it helped birth and..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Banicki

The 25th Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

The lowdown on the 2017 submissions, judges, 10 finalists, and the prize-winning stories

"...don't want to break up the band when it works so well. They felt that the best captured not..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Peter O'Toole Archives Land at HRC

Peter O'Toole archives acquired by UT's Harry Ransom Center

"...talent with words in performance extended to dozens of published and unpublished writing projects represented in the archives. He..."

April 22, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Love Loves to Love Love

On celebrating the Best of Austin, and learning to live with the worst

"...that mocking self-satisfied superior voice were submitted (but not published) while a bevy of similar-sounding letters were received over..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Professor Dumpster Wanted a Dialogue – He Got One

Nora Ankrum responds to the bowtie backlash

"...worthy causes.” The passage links to homelessness advocacy organizations LifeWorks, Front Steps, and Mobile Loaves and Fishes...."

March 11, 2015 News Post by Nora Ankrum

Unfinished Business

The 23rd annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...SECOND PLACE: "Key Biscayne" Remy Barnes Klein lives and works in Austin, Texas...."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Might Be More Art Than You Can Handle, Baby

Esopus. Rubber Repertory. So many links.

"...anthology, the three annual issues of it that were published, one of which featured Rubber Repertory articlewise, was something..."

Sept. 4, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Egg & I

How an experimental treatment for major depression introduced me to the medical magnet and the return of 'energetic' medicine

"...emitted by power lines, cell phone towers, and Wi-Fi networks...."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Greg Harman

The Last Policeman: Countdown City

In which, among other things, an author hits Earth with a huge asteroid.

"...that, previously – because I'd not read your earlier works – although of course I (and everybody else I..."

Aug. 7, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Who Dares Try to Out-Author the Authors, Onstage and Off the Cuff?

Institution Theater improvisers wreak creativity on published works

"...reading was in no way related to the actual, published story of Summer and Bird; but damned if what..."

June 11, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Eats: The New Lone Star Heritage Cookbook

Culinary chronicler Robb Walsh reveals a state's cuisine

"...carving out a place as the definitive source. He's published a slew of award-winning cookbooks covering a wide range..."

May 31, 2013 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Pub Date Announced for Doug Dorst + J.J. Abrams Collaboration

Austin author and Hollywood player co-birth a book

"...while Abrams is the driving creative force behind such works as Felicity, Lost, Super 8, and the Star Trek..."

April 30, 2013 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Jumping the Shark on Women's Health

For the sake of anti-abortion politics, the governor and the Legislature turned their backs on women's health care – with disastrous consequences. Is there any way to fix this mess?

"...pregnancy is unclear; a 2005 review of available research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Assoc­i­ation, found..."

Jan. 18, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Mysterious Ways

Novelist Katie Williams offers advice to Short Story Contest hopefuls

"...Try lots of different advice and figure out what works for you, your own little line-up of magical totems...."

Nov. 26, 2012 Books Post by Katie Williams

So Much Specialness

David Byrne's cult classic True Stories captured a lost Texas and a prescient picture of today

"...Originally published in 2012, this story recounts the production of writer/director/musical..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Not Your Average Joe

William Friedkin on serial killers and 'spandex movies'

"...caller, rather than less. Portions from that interview are published below...."

Aug. 3, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Uncontrolled Experiments

AISD says charters and single-sex academies will lift all students' boats – and attacks any research that says otherwise

"...School for Young Women Leaders shows that single-sex education works. But there are two major, recent reports, each published..."

Dec. 9, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

New in Graphic Novels

These are two books so ripe with sex, it's as if the subject has fermented in the pages

"...opus since 1998's Cages, with this extended sexual fantasy published in luxurious hardcover by Fantagraphics. You ever wonder what..."

June 10, 2011 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Counting to 10

Lynd Ward, Blaze Foley, and the impossibility of a simple list

"...illustrated approximately 200 books and between 1929 and 1937 published six of what can only be described as "graphic..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Arrested Development?

Young-at-heart Austin is home to a booming Young Adult literature scene

"...learned via a SCBWI meeting that they were all published by Delacorte Press, a division of Random House. These..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

Wide-Angle Lens

The Ransom Center captures photography's history with striking breadth and focus

"...years, anyway), a wealth of the medium's most historic works may be found here. And not only does the..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Unstable Element

Are Austin's water fluoridation policies dangerous? It depends who you ask.

"...without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works."..."

Nov. 27, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Tough Crowd

The setup: 21 depressives, neurotics, and social misfits walk into a book. Meet comedy's all-stars.

"...Hall, and he says: "Who knows why that film works? I have no idea." When I read that, I..."

July 3, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Mr. Brown Will Come to Town

Comic-book creator Jeffrey Brown is a featured guest at this year's Staple! The Independent Media Expo

"...has? Well, actually, you maybe could point to the works of Adrian Tomine or Jessica Abel or Seth or..."

March 6, 2009 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dissecting Mercer's Anti-Evolution Editorial

Because shooting fish in a barrel is fun!

"...classrooms,” said the Texas Freedom Network, an organization that works to counter the religious right, on its blog. “But..."

Feb. 16, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Indignation

Philip Roth's latest is a detail piece rather than a panorama

"...American fiction of the past 25 years. Of 22 works cited, six were written by Philip Roth. In the..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Books Review by John Davidson

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