Books
September 16, 2020
The Late, Great Bud Shrake’s Last, Great Novel
The funny and brutal ‘Hollywood Mad Dogs’ was inspired by the Texas writer's experience working in Hollywood with the legendary—and very demanding—Steve McQueen.
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The Texanist
December 15, 2018
The Texanist: What’s So Special About the Texas Chili Parlor?
A Canada man has a few questions about the Austin establishment immortalized in a Guy Clark song.
Books
April 10, 2016
The Making of The Little Red Book
An excerpt from Harvey Penick: The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf by Kevin Robbins reveals how one of golf's greatest minds came to share his knowledge with the world.
Feature
January 20, 2013
L. on Wheels
Eight days in a rental car with Larry L. King, the crotchety West Texan who has written some of the greatest magazine stories of all time, would be enough to drive anyone crazy. Except his biggest fan.
Feature
October 31, 2009
Gone to New York
Bud Shrake’s letters to friends back in Texas during his years in New York show the late novelist in all his ribald, freewheeling glory. And never more alive.
Sports
April 30, 2008
Sportswriter High
Three cheers for Sportswriter High.
Film & TV
April 30, 1998
The Boosters—Nancy Schafer, Barbara Morgan, and Marsha Milam
Their film festivals are one of the state’s feature presentations.
Music
April 1, 1998
Willie at 65
The Red Headed Stranger is about to be eligible for Medicare? Ain’t it funny how time slips away.
Books
April 1, 1997
Let Them Read Shrake
It would be wrong to say that Bud Shrake has finished writing one third of a new novel; it’s actually an old novel, one he has been writing off and on for the past fifteen years. “It’s about love, violence, sex, and murder,” the 65-year-old Austinite explains, and is set
Sports
December 1, 1993
The Old Man and the Tee
How 89-year-old Harvey Penick turned life’s lessons into a best-selling book—and followed it up with another master stroke.