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A Troubling Portrait of Scientologynew
In his new book, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Austin-based journalist Lawrence Wright weaves tales of abuse with stories from numerous ex-members of the Church of Scientology.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
02-07-2013 |
Books
Tags: Lawrence Wright
Best of Flash Fiction: October 2012new
The fairy tale is a timeless tale. But we love to update, rearrange, reconfigure the familiar to make it new and more applicable, but the beautiful sometimes horrifying center still quivers, groans, and blushes (albeit what we consider to be the "center" shifts with time). Johanna DeBiase proves this with intelligence, humor, and creative insight in her "Time Upon Once: 3 Tales."
San Antonio Current |
Lyle Rosdahl |
10-31-2012 |
Original Work
Rebozos weaves women's stories from two languagesnew
In an era when books are being banned, hers included, San Antonio's poet laureate Carmen Tafolla is mindfully doing what she does best: documenting the lives of those whose hard work and fierce spirit offer the preceding generations shoulders upon which we unwaveringly, if not consciously, stand.
San Antonio Current |
Laurie Ann Guerrero |
10-31-2012 |
Books
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 cheater's guide to lovenew
Despite all the TV jokes about New Jersey, it has long been the bedrock for our best writers — from Dorothy Parker and Philip Roth to William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg — and don't forget the Boss, Bruce Springsteen. Now add Junot Díaz to that illustrious list.
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
09-16-2012 |
Books
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
Benefits of Locally Sourced Foods Short-Sold by '10,000-Mile Diet' championsnew
"If our modern food system is so bad for us, why do we now enjoy dramatically longer and healthier lives than our ancestors?"
San Antonio Current |
Ari Levaux |
08-23-2012 |
Books
Sugar, spice, and gender coalesce in trio of bilingual kids' booksnew
I have a surprise for you, I tell my four-year-old daughter when I pick her up from preschool. Three surprises, actually.
San Antonio Current |
Marisol Cortez |
08-02-2012 |
Fiction
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
Best of Flash Fiction, May 2012new
Allyson Whipple, author of "Eulogy," here explores the idea of relationships.
San Antonio Current |
Lyle Rosdahl |
06-01-2012 |
Fiction
Tags: flash fiction, Allyson Whipple
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
Helton's 'Drugs' doesn't demand destruction or redemptionnew
Books about drug use appear regularly on publisher's lists, and whether written as fiction or biography, their plots usually follow a pattern that culminates in the message laid down ages ago by Sunday preachers: I've sinned, seen the darkness of hell, but now surrender to the light.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
05-17-2012 |
Fiction
The Last Stand Mythnew
True or false: The Texan defenders stood their ground, dying to a man within the walls of the Alamo.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
04-22-2012 |
Nonfiction
How Texas brought Ronald Reagan back from the deadnew
Looking at America's political map today, it is hard to believe that, for most of the nation's history, Texas was a Democratic stronghold.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
04-19-2012 |
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
