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Nonfiction Writer

Spike Gillespie

by Chronicle Staff November 8, 2019September 30, 2025

Nonfiction Writer

Spike Gillespie

by Chronicle Staff November 2, 2018September 30, 2025

Best Nonfiction Writer/Memoirist

Spike Gillespie

by Chronicle Staff November 11, 2016September 30, 2025

Most Wonderful Wordsmith to Wow Your Vows

Spike Gillespie

by Chronicle Staff September 11, 2015September 30, 2025

Let’s Get Hitched!

Free Austin wedding event exercises new rights

by Kate X Messer July 14, 2015November 4, 2025

Arts

Joey Waldon: In Memoriam

Popular stand-up comic and cartoonist has died at age 57

by Robert Faires May 22, 2013December 24, 2025

Music

More Songs About Hardwood Floors

Pop culture with Henry Mowgli

by William Harries Graham February 4, 2013September 30, 2025

Arts

Bastion Standard Time

Austin theatre’s ‘enfant terrible’ swapped his poison pen for a Poison Apple, but he still gets people talking

by Dan Solomon July 13, 2012September 30, 2025

I’m Totally Inviting You Into My House This Weekend

No, for real. Hey, c’mon, wipe your goddam feet

by W. A. Brenner May 3, 2012December 24, 2025

News

Planting the Seeds of the New Cactus

KUT reaches out for ideas on the new Cactus Cafe

by Richard Whittaker July 23, 2010September 30, 2025

Arts

Fightin’ Words

Gloves off: Writers duke it out at the Literary Death Match

by Kimberley Jones April 21, 2010September 30, 2025

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Spike Gillespie’s Kick Ass Awards

by Chronicle Staff September 4, 2009September 30, 2025

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