In her new memoir, ‘Up Home,’ Ruth J. Simmons details how she defied the constraints of her segregated childhood and turned her humble origins into the key to her success.
Jimmy Johnson’s memoir, ‘Swagger,’ is another salvo in the catty, decades-long feud between the former coach and Jerry Jones.
Humorist Wendi Aarons’s ‘I’m Wearing Tunics Now’ depicts middle-age losses (slower metabolisms) and wins (better friendships).
In his new memoir, the Instagram star recounts his childhood in Austin and how he found his way in the fashion world.
The Mathis native and 2022 Guggenheim fellow ruminates on masculinity in his debut memoir.
Plus: A lyrical, blistering new memoir and a four-dollar answer to dinner.
In ‘You Sound Like a White Girl,’ Julissa Arce combines memoir and history to reclaim the Latino identity she pushed away as an undocumented immigrant.
With his ex-team in the Super Bowl and a new memoir on bookshelves, the Hall of Fame running back from Sealy, Texas, is back in the limelight.
The singer-songwriter-artist reveals the inspirations behind his music in a multimedia museum show in Austin.
A searingly feminist 1925 memoir of life in small-town Texas rises from the dustbin of patriarchy.
In one of the year's best memoirs, truth is often stranger than fiction.
In his recently released memoir, the Texan actor spins tall tales that just so happen to be true.
In his new memoir, the former chief of emergency medicine at Brackenridge Hospital recounts stories that are by turns tragic, triumphant, and NSFW.
Told through vignettes, 'Retablos,' a memoir by playwright Octavio Solis, depicts the myths and realities of a childhood along the border.
When Willie met Scarface.
An exclusive excerpt from Domingo Martinez’s new memoir, “My Heart Is a Drunken Compass,” in which a drink is always close at hand and the battle against the bottle is never fully won.
Why doesn’t Texas’s greatest movie actress get the respect she deserves?
Six interesting facts about the retired CBS news anchorman found in his new book, Rather Outspoken.
The author of Lone Survivor still has his gun at the ready.
Jeff Dunham speaks for himself.
Larry L. King is at work on a novel about minor league baseball in Texas in the fifties. Breaking Balls is a fictionalized account of his experiences covering the “miserable 144-game schedule” of the Midland Indians as a $55-a-week reporter for the Midland Reporter-Telegram in 1951. “I went to all
At the prime age of 42, Marcus Samuelsson has already attained a lifetime of culinary success. As a 24-year-old chef, he became the youngest chef ever to receive a three-star rating from The New York Times; in 2003, he received the “Best Chef: New York City” award from the James Beard
The Austin-based singer-songwriter talks about her new autobiography, Diamond in the Rough, and her sixth studio album.
Houston Chronicle blogger Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) found herself at the center of a two-day auction among twelve publishing houses for the rights to her debut memoir, Let's Pretend This Never Happened. How did she rise from unpaid blogger to New York Times bestseller?
Retired Border Patrol officer Hipolito Acosta remembers his time on the beat in The Shadow Catcher.
In Donna M. Johnson's memoir of a Pentecostal childhood, religious zeal and illicit love nearly tear a family apart.
Larry McMurtry’s new memoir plays it close to the vest.
An exclusive portrait of the nascent Bush campaign.
The Town Lake soccer fields in Austin, shopping at Kathleen Sommers in San Antonio, sunsets in Big Bend: Good-bye to all that and (sniff) a whole lot more.
MY MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, Grandma Page, was up at three-thirty or four o’clock in the morning to bake and churn and get ready for the cotton fields on our family farm in Bloomington. At night, after all the cooking and sewing, there was energy left for her reading. “Come, Danny, I’ll
In excerpts from his upcoming memoir, legendary newsman Walter Cronkite remembers his days as a cub reporter in Houston and his introdcution to the realities of racism.
Form follows dysfunction.
In his memoirs, archconservative state GOP chair Tom Pauken refights the cultural wars of the sixties—and loses.
For all his integrity and noble intentions, George Bush has yet to prove he’s got the agenda of a true statesman.
December 1941 in Clarksville was a time to celebrate peace on earth amid the rumblings of war.
