Texquisite Corpse
A story in twelve parts and twelve voices. Click here to listen to all twelve podcast recordings.
Twin Wells
Chapter One: A stranger comes to town. by Elmer Kelton
Chapter One: Podcast
Elmer Kelton is the author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, The Wolf and the Buffalo, and The Good Old Boys, as well as Hard Trail to Follow, to be released this month. He lives in San Angelo.
Chapter Two: The Mustang Room. by Dominic Smith
Chapter Two: Podcast
Dominic Smith grew up in Australia and now lives in Austin. He is the author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre, which received the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. His second novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, was published in June.
Chapter Three: The Gunslinger. by David Searcy
Chapter Three: Podcast
David Searcy is the author of two novels, Ordinary Horror and Last Things, and recently finished his third, A Water Telescope. In 2002 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. He lives in Dallas.
Chapter Four: Katherine’s Neck. by Amanda Eyre Ward
Chapter Four: Podcast
Amanda Eyre Ward is a novelist who lives in Austin. Her third novel, Forgive Me, has just been published in paperback by Random House.
Chapter Five: The Emerald Mule. by Will Clarke
Chapter Five: Podcast
Will Clarke, a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, is the author of Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of) and The Worthy: A Ghost’s Story. He lives in Dallas.
Chapter Six: The Escape. by Harry Hunsicker
Chapter Six: Podcast
Harry Hunsicker lives in Dallas, where he writes crime thrillers about a private investigator named Lee Henry Oswald. His debut novel, Still River, was nominated for a Shamus Award. He currently serves as the executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America.
Chapter Seven: The hospitality of the county. by Ben Fountain
Chapter Seven: Podcast
Ben Fountain is the author of the story collection Brief Encounters With Che Guevara. He has won an O. Henry Prize, two Pushcart prizes, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. He lives with his wife and their two children in Dallas.
Chapter Eight: The break-in. by Jill Patterson
Chapter Eight: Podcast
Jill Patterson’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. She is the founding editor of Iron Horse Literary Review and teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University.
Chapter Nine: The last picture show. by Doug Dorst
Chapter Nine: Podcast
Doug Dorst lives in Austin and teaches writing at St. Edward’s University. His first novel, Alive in Necropolis, was published in July.
Chapter Ten: Field of Light. by Diana López’
Chapter Ten: Podcast
Corpus Christi native Diana López’s first novel, Sofia’s Saints (2002), won the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Award. Her next book, Confetti Girl, will be published in 2009. She lives in San Antonio.
Chapter Eleven: The next big lie. by Stephen Graham Jones
Chapter Eleven: Podcast
Stephen Graham Jones was born and raised in West Texas and taught for eight years at Texas Tech University. He is the author of numerous works of fiction, most recently the novels Ledfeather and The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti. He is currently on the writing faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Chapter Twelve: The box. by Elmer Kelton
Chapter Twelve: Podcast
Elmer Kelton is the author of more than forty novels. His latest, Many a River, was published in June. He wrote the first chapter of Twin Wells,for the January 2008 issue.
