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Dec. 17, 2004 Books Feature by Nora Ankrum
Big Books
Gift guide
"...the same high production values you'd get from company-generated books. Josh Neufeld's A Few Perfect Hours is a collection..."
Dec. 10, 2004 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Master of the Improbable
When someone says something can't be done, trust Turk
Pipkin to say 'Wanna bet?'
"...recently. "So I wrote for magazines, and I wrote nonfiction, and I wrote fiction, and I wrote television, and..."
Oct. 29, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires
In Person
The first book Jasper Fforde remembers reading, he told the smiling crowd at BookPeople, is Alice in Wonderland. Which explains an awful lot.
"...appearances (and disappearances) of the Cheshire Cat; it's the books' skewed comic perspective, relentless wordplay, and freewheeling surreality. This..."
March 12, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires
2003 Texas Book Festival Preview
"...11:15am-12:30pm CER E2.016Books From the Edge Spike Gillespie, Rick Klaw, Neal Pollack,..."
Nov. 7, 2003 Books Feature
Lansdale Unraveled
How a cult director translated a cult author to craft a surefire cult favor
"...crime fiction, oddball Westerns, the popular Hap Collins/Leonard Pine books -- it's a 40-plus-page novella featuring an aging Elvis..."
Oct. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
His Presence Was a Lovely Thing
James Welch: 1940-2003
"...one of our most admired writers, an author whose books, including such treasures as Winter in the Blood and..."
Aug. 22, 2003 Books Feature by Paul Stekler
Letters at 3AM
Stanley Crawford's new book, The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays, reminds us that we must all do our part.
"...then he takes time off to write a book: nonfiction (Mayordomo and A Garlic Testament), fiction (Some Instructions and..."
June 27, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura
News/Print
This humidity's making me hot.
"...members, but they may join when submitting their entry; books under consideration must have been published between June 1,..."
May 23, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley
Isolde: Queen of the Western Isle
Margaret Moser reviews Rosalind Miles' take on Tristan and Isolde.
"...She is the distinguished author of nearly two dozen nonfiction and fiction titles, including I, Elizabeth: The Word of..."
April 25, 2003 Books Review by Margaret Moser
An Appetizer Adventure
Virginia B. Wood interviews Chronicle contributor Mick Vann and Arthur Meyer, authors of The Appetizer Atlas.
"...getting this book done different from Art's first two books?..."
April 11, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Rectangular Packages With Ribbons
What most befits you vis-a-vis ageless Ray Bradbury this season? His new one and an illustrated look back at all the old ones.
"...Bradbury's new novel credits him with writing "over 100 books," which seems like a lot more than are currently..."
Dec. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Marc Savlov
2002 Texas Book Festival Schedule
"...11:30am-12:30pm CExt. #E1.016For Teens Only: Books for Young AdultsViola Canales, Carolee Dean, April Lurie, Lori..."
Nov. 15, 2002 Books Feature
Pauline & Paulettes
Anthony Lane's new collection of writings from his tenure at The New Yorker makes for an engaging, easy read. The question still stands as to whether film criticism should be easy.
"...Nobody's Perfect is split into three courses -- "Movies," "Books," and "Profiles." The "Books" section ably demonstrates Lane's familiarity..."
Oct. 11, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
The World as He Knows It
H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.
"...For more than 100 years, readers of literate nonfiction have gravitated to the brand names, the household names,..."
Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker
Bring It
'Soldier of Cinema' Werner Herzog unloads on the state of short film and the ancient Greek drama that is WWF
"...Add to that the voluminous books and essays he has written, the operas he has..."
Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
bee luther-hatchee
It's rare for a piece of theatre staged in Austin to touch an issue close to the city's heart, and that immediacy by itself recommends bee luther-hatchee. But what makes the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production more worthy of attention is the skill with which it serves up the thorny issues authenticity of voice and artistic representation by people of different cultures.
"...made her mark in publishing with a series of nonfiction books that reclaim African-American voices "from the silence," comes..."
Aug. 9, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Borderline Vaudeville
Bill Crawford and Gene Fowler go off-off-off Broadway with Border Radio.
"...probably the only authors of a serious work of nonfiction, a serious work of history, that have actually turned..."
May 10, 2002 Music Feature by Clay Smith
A 'Bullet' to the Gut
In The Bullet Meant for Me, his new memoir, Texas Monthly writer Jan Reid explains why he went to Mexico and was forced to return as a changed man.
"...Reid writes in The Bullet Meant for Me (Broadway Books, $24.95), his memoir of the trip...."
March 29, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith
TIL Awards
"...in Texas in the past year, based on the books, articles, translations, and poems that have been submitted to..."
March 29, 2002 Books Feature
Penelope Lively's Unfortunate Englishness
Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively visits her archives at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
"...Prize-winning Moon Tiger (1987), three short story collections, three books of nonfiction (including the forthcoming A House Unlocked), and..."
March 15, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith
Postscripts
The last time we heard about Karla Faye Tucker, she was being executed; now, almost four years later, there's a new novel about her. Or about someone very like her. And Beverly Lowry's classic Crossed Over, a memoir about getting to know Karla Faye Tucker, gets a reissue.
"...that's wonderful. But I think there are also wonderful books that could be classified as mysteries -- The Name..."
Jan. 18, 2002 Books Column by Clay Smith
2001 Texas Book Festival Schedule
"...music by the Flatlanders, an hors d'oeuvres buffet, and booksignings by featured authors. Tickets are $35 and are available..."
Nov. 16, 2001 Books Feature
Postscripts
Why does it matter if The Corrections author Jonathan Franzen has suffered from depression?
"...BookPeople, didn't get the soul-searching routine. Those poor "serious nonfiction" authors; they rarely do. Hidden Power, which is culled..."
Oct. 12, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith
Postscripts
A party for Kinky Friedman's new book of etiquette and other upcoming literary events in Austin.
"...or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth (HarperCollins/Cliff Street Books, $22.95), which offers such insights as, "A happy childhood,..."
Sept. 28, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith
Postscripts
Resistencia Bookstore was the victim of a car accident last weekend but vows to move on "come hell or high water."
"...corner of South First and West Annie, near Resistencia Bookstore, a motorist in an SUV sped past a red..."
Sept. 14, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith
The Original Hipster
Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor
"...widely published by this time, writing both fiction and nonfiction, but in order to achieve the peace and quiet..."
Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland
Postscripts
Kip Stratton didn't attend either of the universities he's going to cover in a nonfiction book coming out next fall from Crown, a division of Random House, so don't blame him on those grounds if you discern some partiality in it.
"...of the universities he's going to cover in a nonfiction book coming out next fall from Crown, a division..."
Aug. 31, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith
Food-o-File
Interesting culinary newsletters and the latest food news around town
"...Hendricks, and Secrets of the Tsil Cafe (Blue Hen Books, $23.95), a novel with recipes by Thomas Fox Averill..."
Aug. 17, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
Postscripts
A new Texas publisher intends on becoming the largest for-profit publisher in Texas.
"...to make the best publisher in Texas. Lone Star Books, TaylorWilson's imprint that Hamrick directed in addition to being..."
