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July 23, 2015
The Checklist
What to read, hear, watch, and look at to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
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Reviews, profiles, and interviews that capture the diverse voices adding to Texas’s rich literary tradition
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July 6, 2015
Hood County Residents Try to Ban LGBT Children’s Books From Library
The two books aim to educate young readers on gender, sexuality, and LGBT history.
Books
May 8, 2015
The Checklist
What to read, hear, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
April 13, 2015
Attica Locke’s Empire
The author of Black Water Rising talks about Houston neighborhoods, writing for a hot TV show, and her dad’s run for mayor.
Arts & Entertainment
April 13, 2015
The Outlaws
When Willie met Scarface.
Books
March 23, 2015
Cover to Cover
If you’re new to the state, there’s a good chance that you snickeringly regard the phrase “Texas literature” as a contradiction in terms. Well, wise up, wise guy: Texans have been writing memorable books about their state for a long time. So if you have some questions about the city you’ve
The Daily Post
March 2, 2015
George R. R. Martin Gave the Texas A&M Library Its Five Millionth Book
That’s very nice of you, George. Now where is Book Six???
Arts & Entertainment
February 12, 2015
The White Stuff
The secret history of cotton, the crop that transformed the global economy—and kept Texans in poverty for generations.
Books
January 15, 2015
Sandra Cisneros Sold Her House on Guenther Street
Her famously colorful home is now somebody else’s.
Books
November 23, 2014
Texas Man Treasures Finds in Updike’s Trash
Ian McEwan signed books this fall at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, where he was presented the glasses and envelope containing a 1953 issue of The Harvard Lampoon, at his right. (Photo credit Daulton Venglar)MANCHACA, Tex.
Books
October 20, 2014
They Spoke Volumes
We asked writers around the state a series of bookish questions. Here are a few of their answers.
Books
October 20, 2014
Against the Canon
What are the best Texas books ever written? Here’s my list—now let the sparks fly.
Books
October 17, 2014
Read State
My list of the best Texas books ever written.
Books
October 13, 2014
Small in the Saddle
Larry McMurtry, Bill Wittliff, and Jeff Guinn turn to familiar turf—the Old West—to challenge old-school readers.
Books
September 17, 2014
San Antonio and Its Discontents
Inside the mind of Diane Lawson.
Books
September 12, 2014
The Hard Stuff
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.
News & Politics
August 13, 2014
The Red & Rough Guide
Two takes on our conservative ways.
Books
August 5, 2014
Dallas Flambé
With its tight prose, waitress heroine, and stinging insight into urban life, Merritt Tierce’s debut marks an exciting turn in Texas literature.
Books
July 10, 2014
The First Resident of Belken County
When the National Book Critics Circle gave the Austin writer Rolando Hinojosa its lifetime achievement award, it was simply taking note of what many of us had known for years.
Books
July 7, 2014
Michael Morton’s Life in Prison, In His Own Words
Excerpts from his book "Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace."
Books
June 5, 2014
Race and Relations
Journalist Chris Tomlinson delves into the parallel histories of two Texas families with the same last name—one black, one white.
News & Politics
April 21, 2014
The Rough Guide to Frackistan
Energy reporter Russell Gold gives us a reason to give a frak about fracking.
The Daily Post
April 8, 2014
Brittney Griner’s Memoir Drops Today
The former Waco basketball star now adds "author" to her list of impressive accomplishments.
Books
April 8, 2014
The Rough Guide to Frackistan
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, should rank alongside the smartphone as this young century’s most transformative technology. Over the past decade, so much oil and gas has been unlocked from previously impervious rock that America’s generation-long energy crisis has all but ended. Instead of a crippling strategic vulnerability—dependence on foreign
Books
April 2, 2014
Ted Cruz Just Signed A Book Deal, Y’all
The rookie-sensation Senator who's totally not thinking about running for President just signed a deal to write his first book.
Books
February 11, 2014
Coming to Our Census
Former state demographer Steve H. Murdock is back, with a book that should be required reading for all 26,060,796 of us.
Books
January 30, 2014
When Prisoners Read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, It’s Pretty Powerful
The deeper politics of the novel still resonate—especially with inmates—nearly 150 years since it was published.
Books
January 22, 2014
Bexar County’s Library on a Cloud
BiblioTech, one of the country's first all-digital public libraries, aims to reach more readers by hosting their entire collection on the cloud. Patrons may choose from 18,000 digital titles and can check out Kindles, too.
Books
January 9, 2014
Here Comes Hurricane Leila
Novelist Leila Meacham hopes for another best-seller with the forthcoming Somerset, a prequel to her megahit debut novel, Roses.
Books
December 30, 2013
Finally, a Valid Excuse For Doodling During a Meeting
A new book explains how drawing stick figures and other little illustrations during meetings and group sessions can help clarify thoughts and ideas.
Arts & Entertainment
December 17, 2013
The Bum Steer Catalog
Bum Steers is an attitude! Bum Steers is a lifestyle! And, best of all, now Bum Steers is a chance to shop!
Books
December 17, 2013
The Literary Journal and the Small Press Live On, in Austin
It's supposed to be a bad time for print. Yet new literary journals and small presses keep cropping up in the state's capital.
The Culture
December 11, 2013
The Checklist
What to see, hear, read, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
December 10, 2013
Five Texas Books to Give for the Holidays
Our guide to some idiosyncratic books with local connections for every personality on your gift list.
Books
October 25, 2013
5 Books That Make the Texas Book Festival Thoroughly Native
And a list of all of the Texas-related books and Texas-born authors featured at the festival.
The Daily Post
October 15, 2013
Read State: Will Sheff of Okkervil River
Curious about the reading habits of Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff? Read on.
Books
October 11, 2013
The Class of ’63
The good, the bad, and the most self-indulgent of this year’s JFK assassination books.
Books
September 3, 2013
This Man Made Austin Home for a World-Class Literary Archive
As the director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Thomas Staley turned the archive into the repository for some of literature's greatest giants. Now he's passing the baton to Stephen Enniss, who hopes to continue that legacy.
Books
July 30, 2013
The Most Important Taco of the Day
Breakfast! A multi-generational history of the breakfast taco, via Austin institution the Tamale House. Excerpted from the new book "Austin Breakfast Tacos."
Features
July 15, 2013
The Passion of Benjamin Sáenz
The messy, lonely, and visionary life of the first Texas writer—and the first Latino—to win the vaunted PEN/Faulkner Award.
Books
July 8, 2013
Back in the Saddle Again
Novelist James Carlos Blake, who has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, returns to his prolific writing pace, releasing two books in less than a year.
Books
June 10, 2013
The Ghost of Alan Berg
David Berg's new memoir, "Run, Brother, Run," revisits the killing of his older brother, Alan, who was slain outside of Houston in 1968.
Books
June 3, 2013
Carrying on Chris Kyle’s Legacy
The Navy SEAL sniper was killed at a gun range in Erath County before he completed his second book, "American Gun." Now his wife and co-authors are determined to share the story they knew Kyle wanted to tell.
Books
May 24, 2013
Hog Hunting With Texas’s Next Literary Giant
Philipp Meyer is impressing the literary world with his second novel, The Son, a multigenerational epic about an oil and ranching dynasty in Texas that is being called the most ambitious Texas novel in years. But how did this East Coast-reared man manage to capture the spirit of the state?
Books
May 13, 2013
Big Little Man
“By the time I’d been with the band a year, I was treated the same as any other Comanche.” An excerpt from Philipp Meyer’s epic new novel, “The Son.”
Books
May 10, 2013
Child of God
Taylor Stevens gets her revenge, one best-selling thriller at a time.
Books
April 22, 2013
The Eye of Stephen Harrigan
The longtime Texas Monthly writer—and novelist and screenwriter and UT professor—discusses his new collection of essays.
Books
January 29, 2013
Scientology Versus Author Lawrence Wright
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s new book on Scientology, Going Clear, arrives on shelves today amid a swarm of controversy.
Books
January 28, 2013
Bexar County Public Library Will Be Entirely Digital
Announced a judge who himself has 1,000 first editions in his personal library.
Books
January 24, 2013
The Artist and the City
For thirty years, when she wasn’t writing books or winning genius grants, Sandra Cisneros has been pushing and prodding San Antonio to become a more sophisticated (and more Mexican) city. Now she’s leaving town. did she succeed?