
The shuttle age commences, becomes routine, and draws to a close, while Mars beckons.
Gregory Curtis was born in Corpus Christi and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a BA in English from Rice University and a master’s in English from San Francisco State College. While in San Francisco, he ran a very small printing and publishing company. He became a staff writer for Texas Monthly in 1972, just as the magazine was launched, and was promoted to editor in 1981, a position he held until 2000. In addition to Texas Monthly, he has written for the New York Times, New York Times magazine, Rolling Stone, Fortune, and Time. Curtis is the author of The Cave Painters and Disarmed: The Story of Venus DeMilo. He lives in Austin and is an adequate equestrian and aspiring magician.
Jun 25, 2019 — By Gregory Curtis, Helen Thorpe, Stephen Harrigan and Al Reinert
The shuttle age commences, becomes routine, and draws to a close, while Mars beckons.
May 13, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis
In Dallas, our newly not-so-unpopular forty-third president tries to bend the arc of history’s judgment.
Jan 23, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis
The cities have prevailed—but we’re still rural at heart.
Jan 21, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis
West Texans are going to have to figure out what they’re going to do when the well runs dry.
Jan 21, 2013 — By Brian D. Sweany and Gregory Curtis
The fourth volume of an epic LBJ biography stirs more controversy.
Jan 20, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis
If the Southland gave birth to the blues, Mack McCormick wants to know the time and place of the blessed event.
Jan 20, 2013 — By Gregory Curtis
A cool, brilliantly blue day in early February found me driving north from Austin on a sort of pilgrimage. I was going to see John Graves, the writer and gentleman farmer, now 73 years old, at his place on four hundred acres of rocky blackland prairie near Glen Rose. My…
Jan 1, 2008 — By Gregory Curtis
There should be no mystery about the latest artifact of “history.”
Mar 1, 2004 — By Gregory Curtis
She named him Mark. I didn’t know why, any more than I knew why my daughter was drawn to riding in the first place. But I did know that she loved him—and that letting him go was the hardest thing she’d ever done.
May 31, 2000 — By Gregory Curtis
The New York Times versus Texas: It’s only the beginning.
Dec 1, 1999 — By Gregory Curtis
’Dome, sweet ’Dome: Good-bye to the stadium of the century.
Jun 30, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis
The Honorable Lee P. Brown Mayor of HoustonHouston, Texas Dear Mayor Brown, THANKS AGAIN FOR SEEING ME the other day. I’m always happy to have a reason to go to Houston City Hall. It’s not much to look at from the outside, but inside it’s…
Mar 1, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis
Why the state’s tobacco settlement has ignited a controversy.
Jan 1, 1998 — By Gregory Curtis
AT LEAST DAN MORALES knew that the mere proclamation he was going to have a press conference was not likely to stop the world in its tracks. The night before and all that morning, some supporters, as well as the attorney general himself, were busy calling around to say that…
Nov 1, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis
Two new volumes signal a reawakening of interest in the former president.
Sep 30, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis
Should Texas execute a woman? You could debate that question to death.
Jun 30, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis
Boone Pickens no longer wears a tie. Herein lies a tale.
May 31, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis
How a man named Eldrewey Stearns began the fight for civil rights in Houston.
Mar 1, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis
Everyone at the Capitol that morning in late January knew George W. Bush was at a high plateau, and they were there expecting to witness history being made. Popular and successful after two years as governor, openly discussed already as a potential candidate for national office, he was, on this…
Feb 1, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis
STEPHEN KLINEBERG IS A MAN WHO REVELS IN STATISTICS, finding a pleasure in them so intense it borders on the sensual. We sat at a small round table in his breakfast room as he led me through the arrays of numbers that he has worked each of the last fifteen…
Jan 1, 1997 — By Gregory Curtis
IN NOVEMBER WE PUBLISHED A RANKING of 3,172 public grade schools in Texas, giving each school one of five grades, from four stars (the best) to no stars (the worst). This article provoked an unusual amount of mail. Some of the letters were barely restrained victory whoops from people connected…
Dec 1, 1996 — By Gregory Curtis
Why the big fight between a small town and a small church wound up in the Supreme Court.
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