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Columns | Miscellany
Killing Time
Stephen Graham Jones's All the Beautiful Sinners is a wild-eyed thriller; Amanda Eyre Ward's Sleep Toward Heaven is a tale of grief, forgiveness, and the death penalty.
July, July
Novels about college classmates reconnecting and rekindling at reunion time are nothing new, but Tim O'Brien's July, July succeeds with honors.
The Buzz
Kathy Hepinstall is one of four underappreciated Texas writers you should be reading this summer.
Hook Man Speaks
When Matt Clark succumbed to cancer in 1998, the young writer left behind an inventive unpublished novel called Hook Man Speaks. Then his friends stepped in-and brought the book back from the dead.
The Plot Sickens
Sandra Brown's latest novel-and her umpteenth best-seller-is called Envy. Funny, that's the last feeling I get when I read her work.
West Meets East
In Sarah Bird's finest novel to date, she goes halfway around the world for down-home inspiration.
Sci-fi Fo Fum
Texas is filled with giants in the science-fiction field these days, but none loom larger than Bruce Sterling and Michael Moorcock.
Vernon God Little
The King Is Dead
By Sorrow's River
Two for Tee
Mike Shea links Bud Shrake and Dan Jenkins.
A Grand Guy: The Art and Life of Terry Southern
Mike Shea on the new Terry Southern bio.
Flight: A Novel Of Suspense
The Lecturer's Tale
Reporter
Jimmie Vaughan
Loren D. Estleman
The Surf Guru
Let’s Take The Long Way Home
Galveston
Welcome to Utopia (Notes from a Small Town)
Tour de Lance
Justin Cronin
Anna Mitchael
The Marrowbone Marble Company
The Cardturner
David Liss
The Crack in the Lens
Vanilla Ride
Zac Crain
Ignore Everybody (and 39 Other Keys to Creativity)
The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money
How to Sell
SQUINT: My Journey With Leprosy
Woodsburner
Nobody Move
Rupert Isaacson
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
The Color of Lightning
It Will Come to Me
The Caryatids
Pratap Chatterjee
Forty Tales From the Afterlives
Cutting for Stone
We Agreed to Meet Just Here
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
Jeff Guinn
The Messenger
The Glen Rock Book of the Dead
Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound
The Theory of Light and Matter
H. W. Brands
Nine Kinds of Naked
Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus
The Whiskey Rebels
Darlene Harbour Unrue
Bob Schieffer’s America
The Heretic’s Daughter
American Wife
Leather Maiden
Why I Came West
Nick Flynn
Alive in Necropolis
Books: A Memoir
Golden Bones
How Perfect Is That
The Franchise Babe
Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
The Triumph of Caesar
Holy Moly
The Big Sort
Willie Nelson: An Epic Life
The Story of Forgetting
The Palace of Illusions
Mudbound
Names on a Map
The Flowers
Echo
Bruce Sterling
How Can I Talk If My Lips Don’t Move?
The Memoirs Of A Beautiful Boy
The Pulpwood Queens’ Guide To Life
Legacy of the Force: Fury
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
A Land So Strange
Custer’s Brother’s Horse
Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, the Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound
Lone Star Sleuths: An Anthology of Texas Crime Fiction
The Last Jew Standing
The Tecate Journals
Eureka
Clayton Williams
Follow the Money: How George W. Bush and the Texas Republicans Hog-Tied America
Tree of Smoke
2012: The War for Souls
What Gives
Um…Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean.
SERIAL THRILLERS: Our PIs return.
Pepperfish Keys
Evacuation Plan: A Novel From the Hospice
Heartbreak Town
Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out
Forgive Me
This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood
The Beautiful Miscellaneous
The Lightning Thief
The Virgin’s Guide to Mexico
Stormy Weather
Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer
The Men’s Guide to the Women’s Bathroom
The King of Colored Town
Mars Needs Moms!
When the Light Goes
To Live’s to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt
Roma
Chasing Justice
Lost Echoes
Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track
The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
Murder Among the OWLS: A Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery
Sunset Limited
Alternadad
If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways
La Vida Brinca
Between Heaven and Texas
Weeping Mary
The Amazing Faith of Texas, Common Ground on Higher Ground
The Long Night of Winchell Dear
In a Special Light
The Lives of Rocks
The Book of the SubGenius : The Sacred Teachings of J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs
Goodnight, Texas
The Road
GIMP: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand, You Can Fold-or You Can Play
Dark Angels
The History Of Swimming
Uncivilized Beasts & Shameless Hellions
Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather
Tehano
Fear
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The President’s Counselor: The Rise To Power Of Alberto Gonzales.
The Next Time You Die
The Worthy: A Ghost’s Story
Pegasus Descending
Telegraph Days
The Vinegaroon Murders
The Flamenco Academy
I Had the Right to Remain Silent… But I Didn't Have the Ability
Standing Eight
Riley’s Fire
Riding with John Wayne
The Unexpectedly Bad Hair of Barcelona Smith
Bleeding Hearts
Demon Theory
Challenger Park
Come Together, Fall Apart.
Are You Happy?
Sinners Welcome
Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes
A Strong West Wind
The Secret Sisters
The Night Journal
Glory Road
Dog Days
The Worst Hard Time
Havoc
Ringside Seat to a Revolution
Against Gravity
Six Bits a Day
Under the Wire
Dermaphoria
The Color of Law
Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Waterloo
Panic
Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team
Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth
In Perfect Light
The Rogues’ Game
Body Scissors
Mission Road
No Country for Old Men
Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of)
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
Bitter Milk
36 Yalta Boulevard
Chasing the Rodeo
Still River
The Diezmo
Dishing
Towelhead
A Slight Trick of the Mind
Honky Tonk Hero
Ten Little New Yorkers
America’s Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O’Hair
The White League
As Hot As It Was You Ought To Thank Me
One Ranger
The Language of the Sycamores
Judgement Days
Bloodlines
Freaks & Fire: The Underground Reinvention Of Circus
Loop Group
The Captured (A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier)
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
In a Dark House
Fifty Years of the Texas Observer
Scared Money
Wanted
On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth With the Peregrine Falcon
Flat Crazy
Dirty Sally
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
Rift
Corpus Christi
Perfect Circle
Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartbreak in the American Elswhere
Never the Same Again (A Rock'n'Roll Gothic)
Cronies
Dancing with Lyndon
A Hole in Texas
Kings of Infinite Space
The Full Matilda
The Floodmakers
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
Sunset and Sawdust
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
Cut and Run
Handsome Harry
The Coffee Trader
Cold Springs
Grito
Flag Burning and Free Speech: The Case of Texas v. Johnson
First and Last Seasons
Boone's Lick
Zeitgeist: A Novel of Metamorphosis
Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Era
House of Corrections
Purple Cane Road
Royal and Ancient: Blood, Sweat, and Fear at the British Open
Dead Man’s Bay: A Case for Barrett Raines
The Special Prisoner
It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Shutdown
Galveston
Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly
Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax
The Life and Legend of Leadbelly
Texas Music
Texan Jazz
God’s Favorite: A Novel
Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
Interstate Dreams
AfterImage
Chill Factor
If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates
Shock Star
Fort Worth officers and teachers get to know Marilyn Manson.
Web Exclusives
David E. Hilton
On his new novel, Kings of Colorado, and more.
Bill Broyles and Mark Haynes
On their new book, Desert Duty: On the Line With the U.S. Border Patrol.
Shawn Achor
The Harvard researcher talks about his new book, The Happiness Advantage, and more.
Ann Weisgarber
On her new novel, The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, and more.
Shelley Calton
The photographer talks about her new book and life on skates.
Tracy Daugherty
Pratap Chatterjee
An extended interview with the author of Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War.
Robb Walsh
Jeff Guinn
An extended interview with Jef Guinn, author of The Christmas Chronichles.
H. W. Brands
Darlene Harbour Unrue
An extended interview with Darlene Unrue.
Curtis Sittenfeld
Nick Flynn
The new play from the author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.
Sichan Siv Interview
Interview with Sam Gosling
Bill Bishop
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Interview with Terry Moore
Kathy L. Patrick
An extended interview with Kathy Patrick.
Aaron Allston
The Round Rock author and former video game designer has just penned his ninth Star Wars serialization, Legacy of the Force: Fury.
Bill Cunningham
Inspired by the popularity of a panel on Texas crime literature hosted by the Southwestern Writers Collection in 2004, editors Bill Cunningham, Steven L. Davis, and Rollo K. Newsom have compiled Lone Star Sleuths: An Anthology of Texas Crime Fiction, with thirty excerpts from the likes of Rick Riordan, David Lindsey, Mary Willis Walker, and Joe R. Lansdale.
Douglass St. Clair Smith
The SubGenius Psychlopaedia or Slack: The Bobliographon is—how to put this—the most unusual text most folk will ever encounter.
Texas Monthly Biz
Room Service
Booking a hotel reservation online? Before you check in, check out what John Davis III has done to make it possible.
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