AltWeeklies Wire
Halloween brings three terrifying tomes to die fornew
Due to social obligations that include handing out gift coupons and checking apples for needles, Halloween is perhaps best handled by just being haunted by a book.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-26-2012 |
Fiction
Tags: Justin Cronin
A Triad of Intangible Territoriesnew
Unless dealing with outright metaphysics, much nonfiction is mere map-making, stencil patterns, or instruction. And it really has something to do with the approach: how much song is given to each subject.
San Antonio Current |
RoberTO ONTIVEROS |
09-16-2012 |
Books
Turbulence undergirds offerings by these Texas authorsnew
Never let anyone try to tell you what a Texas writer is supposed to be. Here are three Texans that cover everything from the skin trade to cautionary schoolyard YA fiction.
San Antonio Current |
ROBERTO ONTIVEROS |
07-20-2012 |
Fiction
Fill your head with candy, Pac-Man, and Crumbnew
The summer months should be a time to seek out necessary shade and cool off with a hot new book title.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
05-17-2012 |
Nonfiction
'Burn Down' delivers true American Gothicnew
The discomforting cliché that out of bad pain comes good comedy — an assurance that has, in some form or other, been made by acerbic jokers from Mark Twain to Bernie Mac — is nothing to scoff at.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
04-02-2012 |
Nonfiction
Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantasticnew
Ever read a poem about a guy who emotionally abuses a mannequin and leaves her silicon heart broken in a dumpster?
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
02-16-2012 |
Fiction
'The Third Reich' by Roberto Bolañonew
A few years after George Steiner penned an essay about Hitler's architect Albert Speer for the New Yorker and New Wave sellouts Spandau Ballet cracked the top 40 by singing songs about truth and precious metals, an obscure Chilean poet who once swore he'd never write novels began work on a beach comedy called The Third Reich that he promptly placed in a drawer.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
02-16-2012 |
Fiction
Sandra Cisneros' Impact on Latino literaturenew
As nearly everyone now knows, Sandra Cisneros — the oft-times indigenously attired author who founded the Macondo Writers' Workshop here in 1998 and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation two years later — is done with San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
02-16-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bashing the Unabashed Contradiction that is Morrisseynew
Stephen Patrick Morrissey has been frustrating fans of over-warm New Wave smarm since his earliest work with The Cult’s Billy Duffy in that bloodless post-punk band called The Nosebleeds.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
11-10-2011 |
Music
Guadalupe Helps Keep Day of the Dead Thrivingnew
The day of the dead — which has one foot in ancient Aztec culture and another in the exploitation of Misfits T-shirts — is all about being alive. At its most secular dia de los muertos, with its sugar skulls, sweet day of the dead bread, and those colorful paper offerings to the underworld, may easily be written off by the uninitiated as about as spiritual as that Tim Burton claymation movie Corpse Bride.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
11-03-2011 |
Art
A Child's View From a Hot Place Fails to Escape the Pitnew
Hell, despite what Sartre, said about it being “other people,” is usually depicted as a lonely place, either the cascading trauma of lost relations in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart, or the clammy cochlea of torture tunnels in the those too-loud Pinhead movies inspired by his quite novella.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-27-2011 |
Fiction
Reasons to Watch the Scariest Films You’ve Never Seennew
Halloween, outside of being the one time of the year you can show up to work dressed like a cat and take out your office aggression through competitive pumpkin carving, affords the opportunity to watch disturbing and/or outright revolting movies and not seem like a sociopath.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-27-2011 |
TV
El Paso Author Welcomes Your Criticismnew
The biggest threat to the literary arts, according to El Paso-born author Sergio Troncoso, is the “money culture in publishing.”
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-19-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Group Set to Capitalize on Apparitions at Yorktown Hospitalnew
YORKTOWN, Texas — The idea of a haunted hospital conjures up waves of dread — and not just for those still-too-recent memories of Andrew McCarthy’s performance in that Kingdom Hospital mini-series.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
09-29-2011 |
History
Byron’s Hex: San Antonio Author’s Occult Fantasynew
Lord Byron might have been described by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
09-01-2011 |
Books
