Wind, Winter, and Waste
Five new books: three thrillers, one chiller, and a swan song.
Reviews, profiles, and interviews that capture the diverse voices adding to Texas’s rich literary tradition
Five new books: three thrillers, one chiller, and a swan song.
Two novels with novel views of frontier days. And, Howard Hughes revisited by two reporters who leave no stone of his rocky history unturned.
A professional educator flunks the test. He asks all the wrong questions and gives the wrong answers.
Barthelme is a humane writer, but in Great Days he erased al his humans. Also, a look at two novels of the Texas hinterlands.
How a bountifully talented young Texas writer based a novel on Lyndon Johnson, won high praise, and then…
Way down up on the Suwannee River and uptown Saturday night; tracking a few Southern women.
Sleazy Holly inspires a book that is sleazier.
Emma Blue spins lovely wheels in muddy issues.
Sexual secrets in the Piney Woods.
Bobby Baker tells all and then some.
Max Apple’s oddball touches make a zany and endearing novel.
Anybody who thinks Jones, Jones & Baldwin is just a trio of small-time, small-town attorneys is headed for big-time trouble.
What happens to a mercenary when all the fighting stops?
In their hearts, these conservative writers knew they were right. Now the rest of us know it too.
The Mexican pyramids are an open book compared to Peter Tompkins’s rambling account of them.
The Oranging of America is not about the Longhorn football team taking over the government, but Max Apple’s book is only slightly less bizarre.
Being Watergate special prosecutor was hard; writing a book about it was harder.
Turn a few new leaves this holiday season.
Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake find the Limo scene semi-amusing.
Domestic bliss has seen better days than it sees in Shelby Hearon’s new novel.
Why the best years of our lives weren’t.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's latest book "The Final Days" is just too much hocus-pocus.
Start fooling around with Mother Earth and you end up getting accused of rape.
America and Texas: past and present.
Peter Passel and Rollo May help those who help themselves.
Elmer Wayne Henley is neither safe nor sorry.
Spiritual desolation in Crawford’s The Backslider; spiritual warfare in Naipaul’s Guerrillas.
T for Texas, T for Tennessee Williams’ autobiography, and T for terrible.
When a noted American humorist retired to Alpine, the joke was on him.
East Texas author William Goyen was more at home in the Fifties.
Donald Barthelme wrote a novel about you and it’s so bad.
World War II the way it really was.
Larry McMurtry brings his Texas odyssey to an end.
Can college athletics survive? Can short stories?
Does crime pay?
Peter Matthiessen writes of men pursuing a dying profession and Philip Roth pursues his critics.
Frederick Exley shows how to get too much of a good thing.
Exploring the heavy price of Empire.
Coupling takes many forms, as John Updike and Shelby Hearon can tell you.
Two books on why you can’t go home again.
Two well-known authors prove that knowing the subject matter doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good book.
Bringing back the Ghost of Christmas Past.
A look at new work from Larry King, Ronnie Dugger, and Edwin Shrake.
Recently at a banquet at the Sheraton-Fort Worth, the Texas Institute of Letters announced its 1973 awards for literary excellence. Here are the winners:. . . The Carr P. Collins Award for the best nonfiction book: Lewis L. Gould for Progressives and Prohibitionists, Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era.. .
PEYTON PLACE COMES TO DALLAS Bill Peyton’s antiques, ranging from the most elaborate Louis XIV or Napoleonic pieces to funky wine presses, Coca-Cola mirrors, church pulpits, and pump organs, come from all over Europe in 40-foot containers, or from estates in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. For 15 years he has
Our reviewer, whose capacity for punishment is apparently boundless, reports on ten best-selling paperback books.
Some recommendations on what to do, see and buy this month.
Some recommendations on what to do, see and buy this month.
The Real ThingWhile billows of smoke encircle the Holmes Road dump, the City of Houston atones somewhat for its ecological sins by its production of Hou-Actinite, a remarkable 100 per cent organic fertilizer which is recycled at the Northside Waste Water Control Facility from city waste water and raw sewage.
Turn off the T.V. and read a spell. These books are fun.