During the summer of 1989, Richard Linklater and a merry band of Austin filmmakers shot the movie that was eventually to become known as Slacker, a film that has over the years earned a reputation as ...

In his “making of” book (St. Martin’s Press, 1992), the following passage, Linklater’s own, appears: “I guess it all started for me when I wandered into a Dead Kennedys show in the summer of 1984. …As ...

Known to some as literature’s “slacker laureate,” Geoff Dyer is a prolific fiction writer, essayist and traveler, as well as the possessor of a rather mellifluous British accent. His latest collection ...