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The Assassination in Me »
This month my second novel about JFK's murder will be published. Why do I keep returning to Dealey Plaza and the events of that fateful day? Because I can't help myself.
June 2001 by James Ellroy
To Hell and Back »
After he was shot by a Mexico City cab driver—and told that he might be paralyzed—Jan Reid was flown to Houston, where Dr. Red Duke and a team of therapists literally got him back on his feet. In an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, The Bullet Meant for Me, Reid reconstructs the grueling nine weeks of recovery before he and his wife, Dorothy, finally headed home to Austin.
June 2001 by Jan Reid
Grand Designs »
A new Texas Monthly by design—and necessity.
April 2001 by Evan Smith
Deer Prudence »
Back when I was a hippie pacifist in Northern California, I never thought I'd kill an animal for sport. Then I married into a South Texas ranching family, and in time I managed to pull the trigger and bag a buck. My emotions were decidedly mixed, but I knew that I had become a Texan at last.
December 2000 by Michael DiLeo
Animal Magnetism »
My mane attraction.
February 2000 by Gregory Curtis
To Die For »
Obituaries are a grave matter, of course. But they can also be funny, insightful, and poetic, which is why I’m so obsessed with them.
January 1997 by Anne Dingus
State of the Reunion »
It was strange enough that I returned to my hated Houston high school after twenty years—but stranger still, I enjoyed it.
October 1996 by Robert Draper
Needlemania »
In an era of AIDS and family values, who’s crazy enough to have a tattoo? Some twenty million Americans, including sports stars, Academy award winners, the CEO of Nike, a Republican Secretary of State—and me.
September 1996 by Spike Gillespie
Love and Death on the Third Floor »
She was the princess who wore Tiffany perfume. He was the middle-class guy who raced cars. But when they met on the cystic fibrosis wing of a Dallas hospital, romance bloomed.
February 1994 by Skip Hollandsworth
A Stately House: A Photographic Portrait »
Even on her one-hundredth birthday, the Texas Capitol looks good in places other building don’t even have places.
May 1988 Text by Paul Burka
The Silver Lining »
Age is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
March 1985 by Liz Carpenter
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