All posts by Don Graham
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The Class of ’63
The good, the bad, and the most self-indulgent of this year’s JFK assassination books.
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Still Searching
A new book looks at the links between Cynthia Ann Parker and an iconic John Ford western.
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Friedrichsburg Revisited
The German novel, penned in 1867 and set in the just-settled Hill Country hamlet, gets a modern translation.
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Katherine the Great
Indian Creek native Katherine Anne Porter is the finest author ever to come out of Texas. But only recently has her home state stopped writing her off.
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Writers Bloc
What did Graham Greene observe about crossing the border into Mexico in 1938? Would you believe Molly Ivins was born in California? Here are my picks for the fifty greatest literary moments in Texas, plus a roster of leading lights who are from here—and some who aren't.
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Pen Pals
Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb were the leading Texas writers and intellectuals of their age. But as ribald raconteurs, they were ahead of their time.
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All the Pretty Corpses
Cormac McCarthy’s latest is bloody good.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
An ambitious, sometimes bewildering, debut novel about Czech Texas.
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Expatriate Act
While some Texas-born writers had to leave home to do their best work, for John Graves the reverse was true.
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Picture Perfect
Why Peter Bogdanovich filmed in black and white, who discovered Cybill Shepherd, which onetime soap opera diva read for the role of Jacy, and other secrets of the making of The Last Picture Show .