Posts Tagged ‘writers’
Born This Way
Jeff PrinceTaggers, graffiti artists, bombers, writers — whatever you want to call them — they’re a pain in the posterior to a lot of people who get irate about spray-paintings on public property. Then again, maybe it...
Moneyball: A’s for Effort
This baseball movie for brainiacs is unflashy and productive.KRISTIAN LIN
The Oakland A’s are currently a distant third in the American League West behind Anaheim and our own Texas Rangers. Though they made the playoffs several times in the early ’00s, the team never won a World Series and has be...
Drewe Lies
Big TicketPeople don’t usually think of graphic novels as a medium for delicate literary satire, but that’s what Posy Simmonds accomplished when she wrote Tamara Drewe, which has now been turned into a dense and funny comedy film. It...
James McMurtry
Listen UpFort Worth-born James McMurtry continues to display a wickedly sharp sense of right and wrong on his new Just Us Kids.
Stranger Than Fiction
Big TicketIt’s odd that artists who are extremely prolific tend to be viewed with suspicion rather than being celebrated for giving the audience so much.
Posse Prose
A bunch of Fort Worth scribes collaborate on a Western that hits more often than it misses.Books
A baker’s dozen of Texas writers have set egos — and some might say common sense — aside to write a collaborative novel (which might be better described as a novel of unexpected outcomes) about the adventures and misadven...