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Darcy O'Brien's recently reissued, autobiographical Hollywood novel A Way of Life, Like Any Other is part satire, part insightful coming-of-age tale, and entirely funny.
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Big Circus of Life
Books Editor Clay Smith and Litera columnist Ric Williams handicap which of the 200-plus international poets attending this year's Austin International Poetry Festival will be best bets.
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Dickens Does Dallas: A Christmastime Visit From the Ghosts of Henny Youngman, Rodney Dangerfield, and Andrew Dice Clay Teaches Me the True Meaning of Cowboys Football
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The Nature of Existence
This documentary treks the globe posing life’s big questions to one and all.
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The Remains of the Day
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Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine
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The Empire That Dreams of Us
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Feb. 26, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell
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The Cinema of Possibilities
Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute
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Of course the state still wants to kill this prisoner
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Unraveling Shakespeare's Life
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"[The] applicant is clearly 'crazy,' but he is also 'sane' under Texas law."
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Carrie Elkin’s Life-and-Death Folk
Her father's death and daughter's birth upped the stakes of the singer's finest work
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