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Who's Next?

San Antonio's Marshevet Hooker is not just any old high school sprinter; she's an Olympic gold medalist in the making. Meet her and nine other women we're betting will lead the new Texas—and the world. February 2003

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. August 2003

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. October 2002

The Buzz

Kathy Hepinstall is one of four underappreciated Texas writers you should be reading this summer. August 2002

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When Matt Clark succumbed to cancer in 1998, the young writer left behind an inventive unpublished novel called Hook Man Speaks.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. March 2002

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. November 2001

West Meets East

In Sarah Bird's finest novel to date, she goes halfway around the world for down-home inspiration. June 2001

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. July 1998

Vernon God Little

November 2003

The King Is Dead

November 2003

By Sorrow's River

November 2003

Two for Tee

Mike Shea links Bud Shrake and Dan Jenkins. August 2001

A Grand Guy: The Art and Life of Terry Southern

Mike Shea on the new Terry Southern bio. April 2001

Flight: A Novel Of Suspense

March 2001

The Lecturer's Tale

February 2001

Flag Burning and Free Speech: The Case of Texas v. Johnson

January 2001

First and Last Seasons

December 2000

Boone's Lick

November 2000

Zeitgeist: A Novel of Metamorphosis

November 2000

Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Era

October 2000

House of Corrections

September 2000

Purple Cane Road

September 2000

Royal and Ancient: Blood, Sweat, and Fear at the British Open

August 2000

Dead Man's Bay: A Case for Barrett Raines

August 2000

The Special Prisoner

July 2000

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

July 2000

Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

May 2000

Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly

May 2000

Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax

May 2000

The Life and Legend of Leadbelly

May 2000

Texas Music

May 2000

Texan Jazz

May 2000

God's Favorite: A Novel

April 2000

Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush

April 2000

Interstate Dreams

March 2000

AfterImage

March 2000

Chill Factor

February 2000

If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates

February 2000

Gypsy Songman

January 2000

One Day's Perfect Weather

January 2000

The Last King of Texas

January 2000

Reporter

Alive in Necropolis

July 2008

Books: A Memoir

July 2008

Golden Bones

July 2008

How Perfect Is That

June 2008

The Franchise Babe

June 2008

Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found

June 2008

Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

June 2008

The Triumph of Caesar

May 2008

Holy Moly

May 2008

The Big Sort

May 2008

Willie Nelson: An Epic Life

April 2008

The Story of Forgetting

April 2008

The Palace of Illusions

April 2008

Mudbound

March 2008

Names on a Map

March 2008

The Flowers

March 2008

Echo

March 2008

Bruce Sterling

February 2008

How Can I Talk If My Lips Don’t Move?

January 2008

The Memoirs Of A Beautiful Boy

January 2008

The Pulpwood Queens’ Guide To Life

January 2008

Legacy of the Force: Fury

December 2007

Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life

December 2007

A Land So Strange

December 2007

Custer’s Brother’s Horse

November 2007

Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, the Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound

November 2007

Lone Star Sleuths: An Anthology of Texas Crime Fiction

November 2007

The Last Jew Standing

October 2007

The Tecate Journals

October 2007

Eureka

October 2007

Clayton Williams

October 2007

Follow the Money: How George W. Bush and the Texas Republicans Hog-Tied America

September 2007

Tree of Smoke

September 2007

2012: The War for Souls

September 2007

What Gives

August 2007

Um…Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean.

August 2007

SERIAL THRILLERS: Our PIs return.

August 2007

Pepperfish Keys

July 2007

Evacuation Plan: A Novel From the Hospice

July 2007

Heartbreak Town

July 2007

Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out

July 2007

Forgive Me

June 2007

This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood

June 2007

The Beautiful Miscellaneous

June 2007

The Lightning Thief

June 2007

The Virgin’s Guide to Mexico

May 2007

Stormy Weather

May 2007

Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer

May 2007

The Men’s Guide to the Women’s Bathroom

April 2007

The King of Colored Town

April 2007

Mars Needs Moms!

April 2007

When the Light Goes

March 2007

To Live’s to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt

March 2007

Roma

March 2007

Chasing Justice

February 2007

Lost Echoes

February 2007

Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track

February 2007

The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos

February 2007

Murder Among the OWLS: A Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery

January 2007

Sunset Limited

January 2007

Alternadad

January 2007

If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways

January 2007

La Vida Brinca

December 2006

Between Heaven and Texas

December 2006

Weeping Mary

December 2006

The Amazing Faith of Texas, Common Ground on Higher Ground

December 2006

The Long Night of Winchell Dear

November 2006

In a Special Light

November 2006

The Lives of Rocks

November 2006

The Book of the SubGenius : The Sacred Teachings of J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs

November 2006

Goodnight, Texas

October 2006

The Road

October 2006

GIMP: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand, You Can Fold-or You Can Play

October 2006

Dark Angels

September 2006

The History Of Swimming

September 2006

Uncivilized Beasts & Shameless Hellions

September 2006

Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather

September 2006

Tehano

August 2006

Fear

August 2006

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

August 2006

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

August 2006

The President’s Counselor: The Rise To Power Of Alberto Gonzales.

July 2006

The Next Time You Die

July 2006

The Worthy: A Ghost’s Story

July 2006

Pegasus Descending

July 2006

Telegraph Days

June 2006

The Vinegaroon Murders

June 2006

The Flamenco Academy

June 2006

I Had the Right to Remain Silent… But I Didn't Have the Ability

June 2006

Standing Eight

May 2006

Riley’s Fire

May 2006

Riding with John Wayne

May 2006

The Unexpectedly Bad Hair of Barcelona Smith

May 2006

Bleeding Hearts

April 2006

Demon Theory

April 2006

Challenger Park

April 2006

Come Together, Fall Apart.

April 2006

Are You Happy?

March 2006

Sinners Welcome

March 2006

Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes

March 2006

A Strong West Wind

February 2006

The Secret Sisters

February 2006

The Night Journal

February 2006

Glory Road

January 2006

Dog Days

January 2006

The Worst Hard Time

January 2006

Havoc

December 2005

Ringside Seat to a Revolution

December 2005

Against Gravity

December 2005

Six Bits a Day

November 2005

Under the Wire

November 2005

Dermaphoria

November 2005

The Color of Law

October 2005

Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

October 2005

Waterloo

October 2005

Panic

September 2005

Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team

September 2005

Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth

September 2005

In Perfect Light

August 2005

The Rogues’ Game

August 2005

Body Scissors

August 2005

Mission Road

July 2005

No Country for Old Men

July 2005

Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of)

July 2005

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time

June 2005

Bitter Milk

June 2005

36 Yalta Boulevard

June 2005

Chasing the Rodeo

May 2005

Still River

May 2005

The Diezmo

May 2005

Dishing

April 2005

Towelhead

April 2005

A Slight Trick of the Mind

April 2005

Honky Tonk Hero

March 2005

Ten Little New Yorkers

March 2005

America’s Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O’Hair

March 2005

The White League

February 2005

As Hot As It Was You Ought To Thank Me

February 2005

One Ranger

February 2005

The Language of the Sycamores

January 2005

Judgement Days

January 2005

Bloodlines

January 2005

Freaks & Fire: The Underground Reinvention Of Circus

December 2004

Loop Group

December 2004

The Captured (A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier)

November 2004

Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines

November 2004

In a Dark House

October 2004

Fifty Years of the Texas Observer

October 2004

Scared Money

October 2004

Wanted

September 2004

On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth With the Peregrine Falcon

September 2004

Flat Crazy

September 2004

Dirty Sally

August 2004

Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

August 2004

Rift

August 2004

Corpus Christi

July 2004

Perfect Circle

July 2004

Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartbreak in the American Elswhere

July 2004

Never the Same Again (A Rock'n'Roll Gothic)

June 2004

Cronies

June 2004

Dancing with Lyndon

June 2004

A Hole in Texas

May 2004

Kings of Infinite Space

May 2004

The Full Matilda

May 2004

The Floodmakers

March 2004

Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana

March 2004

Sunset and Sawdust

March 2004

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

January 2004

Cut and Run

January 2004

Handsome Harry

January 2004

The Coffee Trader

June 2003

Cold Springs

June 2003

Grito

June 2003

Shutdown

June 2000

Galveston

June 2000

Shock Star

Fort Worth officers and teachers get to know Marilyn Manson. February 1999

Web extras

Sichan Siv Interview

July 2008

Sam Gosling

June 2008

Bill Bishop

May 2008

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

April 2008

Interview with Terry Moore

March 2008

Kathy L. Patrick

An extended interview with Kathy Patrick. January 2008

Aaron Allston

The Round Rock author and former video game designer has just penned his ninth Star Wars serialization, Legacy of the Force: Fury. December 2007

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. November 2007

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. November 2006