Books
236 stories
Violence Is Golden »
James Carlos Blake’s latest novel explores the sins of the grandfather.
February 2012 by John Phillip Santos
The Man Who Knows Too Much »
Cyberpunk pioneer Bruce Sterling speculates that the worst is yet to come.
January 2012 by Edward Nawotka
Father Knows West »
Is it time to revisit Larry McMurtry’s Berrybender Narratives?
December 2011 by Don Graham
Dagoberto Gilb Returns to Writing After His Stroke »
Before the End, After the Beginning, the author's first collection since his stroke, draws on his personal crisis for inspiration.
November 2011 by Christopher Kelly
Black Like Him »
Fifty years after it first electrified the nation, Dallas native John Howard Griffin’s classic book still has something to tell us.
November 2011 by Annette Gordon-Reed
Sacred Mistrust »
In this memoir of a Pentecostal childhood, religious zeal and illicit love nearly tear a family apart.
October 2011 by Susan Wood
Freddie’s Song »
Is the Freddie Steinmark saga the greatest story ever oversold?
September 2011 by Bryan Curtis
An Excerpt From The Homesick Texan Cookbook »
Blogger Lisa Fain’s new cookbook.
September 2011 by Lisa Fain
Gunfire and Brimstone »
Fort Worth preacher J. Frank Norris paved the way for today’s televangelists. But he’s probably best known as the defendant in a wild 1927 murder trial.
August 2011 by Don Graham
Sink or Swim »
In an excerpt from the new novel The Gap Year, a single mom prepares to send her only daughter off to college. Guess which one is a wreck.
July 2011 by Sarah Bird
No Handicap »
Babe Didrikson’s pioneering career as a woman golfer.
July 2011 by Prudence Mackintosh
Read Aloud
Author Sarah Bird discusses her book, The Gap Year.
July 2011
The Book of Elmer »
Weighing the legacy of West Texas's patron saint of cowboy literature.
June 2011 by Don Graham
Crockett Science »
A new Crockett biography weighs in on how Davy died.
May 2011 by James L. Haley
A Conversation With Stephen Harrigan
One of Texas’s most acclaimed writers talks about his new novel, his process, and what he really thinks about e-readers.
May 2011 Produced by Pamela Hastings
Swamp Think »
Joe R. Lansdale has made a career out of a hard-boiled vision of East Texas.
April 2011 by Steven L. Davis
Pretty Ugly »
Why a lavish two-volume attack on the border fence misses the mark.
March 2011 by Jim Lewis
Future Imperfect »
Stratfor’s George Friedman peers into the future.
February 2011 by Daniel W. Drezner
For the Record »
How Alan Lomax rebelled against—and saved a few—Texas traditions.
January 2011 by Douglas Brinkley
Kings of Colorado »
An excerpt from Chapter One.
January 2011 by David E. Hilton
He’s No Dummy »
Jeff Dunham speaks for himself.
November 2010 by Josh Eells
It’s All Greek to Him »
Rick Riordan greeks out with a Percy Jackson spin-off.
October 2010 by James Hynes
Austin City Limits
To mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of the longest-running popular music series in American television history (take that, Yo! MTV Raps!), the University of Texas Press has just published a gorgeous coffee-table book,Austin City Limits: 35 Years in Photographs.
October 2010
Writing Life »
Checking in on the long, slow, quiet, thoughtful, weird, brilliant, often-interrupted, never-compromised career of John Graves.
August 2010 by Gary Cartwright
If you’ve never read or seen Lonesome Dove . . . »
. . . or if you did so many years ago that your memory of it has grown hazy, this brief synopsis will help you navigate our oral history.
July 2010
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