Books
June 30, 1979
Wind, Winter, and Waste
Five new books: three thrillers, one chiller, and a swan song.
Books
Reviews, profiles, and interviews that capture the diverse voices adding to Texas’s rich literary tradition
Books
May 31, 1979
A New Old West
Two novels with novel views of frontier days. And, Howard Hughes revisited by two reporters who leave no stone of his rocky history unturned.
Books
April 30, 1979
Teachers’ Threat
A professional educator flunks the test. He asks all the wrong questions and gives the wrong answers.
Books
March 1, 1979
Barthelme the Scribbler
Barthelme is a humane writer, but in Great Days he erased al his humans. Also, a look at two novels of the Texas hinterlands.
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1979
Billy Lee
How a bountifully talented young Texas writer based a novel on Lyndon Johnson, won high praise, and then…
Books
February 1, 1979
Just Whistlin’ Dixie
Way down up on the Suwannee River and uptown Saturday night; tracking a few Southern women.
Books
December 1, 1978
Days of the Hocus
Sleazy Holly inspires a book that is sleazier.
Books
November 1, 1978
Down on the Delta
Emma Blue spins lovely wheels in muddy issues.
Books
September 30, 1978
Dixie Drag
Sexual secrets in the Piney Woods.
Books
August 31, 1978
Baker’s Dozen
Bobby Baker tells all and then some.
Books
July 31, 1978
Apple Encore
Max Apple’s oddball touches make a zany and endearing novel.
Books
May 31, 1977
The Toughest Guys in Court
Anybody who thinks Jones, Jones & Baldwin is just a trio of small-time, small-town attorneys is headed for big-time trouble.
Books
April 30, 1977
Soldiers of Misfortune
What happens to a mercenary when all the fighting stops?
Books
April 1, 1977
Right On
In their hearts, these conservative writers knew they were right. Now the rest of us know it too.
Books
March 1, 1977
He’s Got a Secret
The Mexican pyramids are an open book compared to Peter Tompkins’s rambling account of them.
Books
February 1, 1977
Apple and Oranges
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.
Books
January 1, 1977
Prosecution Complex
Being Watergate special prosecutor was hard; writing a book about it was harder.
Books
December 1, 1976
Presents of Mind
Turn a few new leaves this holiday season.
Books
November 1, 1976
Testing, Testing
Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake find the Limo scene semi-amusing.
Books
September 30, 1976
Pall in the Family
Domestic bliss has seen better days than it sees in Shelby Hearon’s new novel.
Books
August 31, 1976
Lend Me Your Era
Why the best years of our lives weren’t.
Books
July 31, 1976
Sourcery and Whichcraft
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's latest book "The Final Days" is just too much hocus-pocus.
Books
June 30, 1976
Passions of the Mine
Start fooling around with Mother Earth and you end up getting accused of rape.
Books
May 31, 1976
Only Yesterday
America and Texas: past and present.
Books
April 30, 1976
Help Yourself
Peter Passel and Rollo May help those who help themselves.
Books
April 1, 1976
The Last Kid on the Block
Elmer Wayne Henley is neither safe nor sorry.
Books
April 1, 1976
Fires and Brimstone
Spiritual desolation in Crawford’s The Backslider; spiritual warfare in Naipaul’s Guerrillas.
Books
March 1, 1976
Tennessee Schmaltz
T for Texas, T for Tennessee Williams’ autobiography, and T for terrible.
Books
February 1, 1976
The Dream House of H. Allen Smith
When a noted American humorist retired to Alpine, the joke was on him.
Books
February 1, 1976
Goyen, Goyen, Gone.
East Texas author William Goyen was more at home in the Fifties.
Books
January 1, 1976
Oh Dad, Poor Dad
Donald Barthelme wrote a novel about you and it’s so bad.
Books
December 1, 1975
Oh, What a Lovely War Book
World War II the way it really was.
Books
November 1, 1975
Moving On
Larry McMurtry brings his Texas odyssey to an end.
Books
September 30, 1975
A Sporting Chance
Can college athletics survive? Can short stories?
Books
August 31, 1975
Crooked Shooters
Does crime pay?
Books
July 31, 1975
Tortuga’s Complaint
Peter Matthiessen writes of men pursuing a dying profession and Philip Roth pursues his critics.
Books
June 30, 1975
The Hungry I
Frederick Exley shows how to get too much of a good thing.
Books
May 31, 1975
White Man’s Burden
Exploring the heavy price of Empire.
Books
April 30, 1975
Family Affairs
Coupling takes many forms, as John Updike and Shelby Hearon can tell you.
Books
March 31, 1975
Waltz Across Texas, March Into Zion
Two books on why you can’t go home again.
Books
February 28, 1975
Old Dogs, Old Tricks
Two well-known authors prove that knowing the subject matter doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good book.
Books
December 1, 1974
A Child’s Christmas in Tales
Bringing back the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Books
May 31, 1974
The Constant Reader
A look at new work from Larry King, Ronnie Dugger, and Edwin Shrake.
Books
April 30, 1974
Texas Writers Recognized
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.. .
Style & Design
March 31, 1974
Touts
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
Books
February 28, 1974
Chariots in the Bedroom
Our reviewer, whose capacity for punishment is apparently boundless, reports on ten best-selling paperback books.
Books
September 30, 1973
Touts
Some recommendations on what to do, see and buy this month.
Books
August 31, 1973
Touts
Some recommendations on what to do, see and buy this month.
Style & Design
July 31, 1973
Touts
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.
Books
June 30, 1973
Five Odd Books for Summer Reading
Turn off the T.V. and read a spell. These books are fun.