How Do You Get to Arrakis?
The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places reviewed. [08-09-99]
AUSTIN CHRONICLE
Off the Bookshelf
"flatnessisgod" by Ryan McGinness. "No Shame in My Game" by Katherine S. Newman. "In September, the Light Changes" by Andrew Holleran. "Feel This Book" by Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo. [08-02-99]
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Haranguing the Hugos
This year's Hugo nominees -- supposedly the cream of the speculative fiction crop -- fall short of expectations. [08-02-99]
Adrienne Martini, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
Book Reviews
"30: Pieces of a Novel" by Stephen Dixon. "Shy Girl" by Elizabeth Stark. "Woman Who Glows in the Dark" by Elena Avila. "National Outdoor Leadership School's Wilderness Guide" by Mark Harvey. [08-02-99]
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Off the Bookshelf
"The Wedding Jester" by Steve Stern. "A Community of Writers" edited by Robert Dana. "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing" by Melissa Bank. "Police and Thieves" by Peter Plate. [07-26-99]
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Future Near, Future Dear
Bruce Sterling is up to his old tricks in his new collection of short stories, A Good Old-fashioned Future. [07-26-99]
Clay Smith, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
Off the Bookshelf
"Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick" by Frederic Raphael. "Rebels in White Gloves" by Miriam Horn. "Other People's Dirt" by Louise Rafkin. "Just Desserts" by Jerry Oppenheimer. [07-19-99]
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Marcel Duchamp's X-Ray Specs
Why did University of Texas art historian Linda Dalrymple Henderson spend nine years investigating the work of artist and arch-trickster Marcel Duchamp? [07-19-99]
Sid Moody, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
Book Reviews
"Essential Saltes: An Experiment" by Don Webb. "True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir" by Ernest Hemingway. [07-19-99]
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Off the Bookshelf
"Poachers" by Tom Franklin. "Interior With Sudden Joy" by Brenda Shaughnessy. "The Alfred Hitchcock Triviography and Quiz Book" by Kathleen Kaska. [07-12-99]
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Country of Exiles?
"Country of Exiles" by William Leach. "Home Town" by Tracy Kidder. "A Rock and a Hard Place" by Darryl Wimberley. "Why Not Me?" by Al Franken. [07-12-99]
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Off the Bookshelf
"Ultimate Sports Lists" by Mike Meserole. "Barney's Version" by Mordecai Richler. "Run Catch Kiss" by Amy Sohn. "Plays Well With Others" by Allan Gurganus. [07-05-99]
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Ms. Write
Since Carolyn Banks crosses genres both across and within works, why does she offer advice to new authors to "find a channel and stick with it"? [07-05-99]
Jessica Berthold, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
Book Reviews
"The Onassis Women: An Eyewitness Account" by Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos. "Maria Callas: Sacred Monster" by Stelios Galatopoulos. [07-05-99]
Stephen Macmillan Moser, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
Author Literatus
Steven Saylor sets his novels in ancient Rome, but has quite a few modern ideas about the state of the author in the contemporary publishing climate. [07-05-99]
Clay Smith, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
Off the Bookshelf
"I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb. "Wandering Time" by Luis Alberto Urrea. "Race Rules" by Michael Eric Dyson. "Wanting a Child." [06-28-99]
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And Then Some
More dissections of summer reading. [06-28-99]
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Off the Bookshelf
"Nude in Tub" by G.K. Wuori. "The Fuck-Up" by Arthur Nersesian. "Jacob's Hands" by Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood. "On the Loose" by Melissa Roth. [06-21-99]
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A Joycean Riff of Race
Why Ellison never published his long-awaited second novel during his lifetime, and what that novel is like now that it's been published posthumously. [06-21-99]
Mark Busby, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
Postmodern P.I.
Hard-boiled detective writer Dennis Lehane talks about why it's easy to believe his protagonist Patrick Kenzie, unlike all those other brooding postmodern Marlowes. [06-14-99]
Jesse Sublett, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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