Books
June 22, 2016
Terms of Endearment
How I came to love Larry McMurtry.
Books
Reviews, profiles, and interviews that capture the diverse voices adding to Texas’s rich literary tradition
Books
June 22, 2016
McMurtry’s Best
Lonesome Dove aside, here are the indispensable titles every Texan should have on his or her bookshelf.
Books
June 22, 2016
The Minor Regional Novelist
Texas may have inspired Larry McMurtry to become a writer, but there is no writer who has inspired an understanding of Texas quite like Larry McMurtry. At age eighty, our most iconic author still has work to do.
Books
June 7, 2016
Texas Author Accused Of Plagiarizing Material In His Debut Novel
Austin-based B. Mitchell Cator seems to have lifted material from other writers, including Texas Monthly's Skip Hollandsworth.
Books
May 26, 2016
The Checklist
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Film & TV
May 16, 2016
Watch The Trailer For ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,’ Starring Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, and Kristen Stewart
The scathing cultural satire comes to the big screen under the direction of two-time Academy Award winner Ang Lee.
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Dan Solomon
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Books
April 20, 2016
Interview With a Vampire Writer
Justin Cronin on Texas, our toxic environment, and the long-awaited finale to his best-selling science-fiction trilogy.
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Jeff Salamon
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Books
April 20, 2016
The Checklist
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
April 10, 2016
The Making of The Little Red Book
An excerpt from Harvey Penick: The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf by Kevin Robbins reveals how one of golf's greatest minds came to share his knowledge with the world.
Books
April 5, 2016
Lonesome Dove Reunion Proves That the Three-Decade-Old Mini-Series Is Timeless
The Lonesome Dove Trail and Reunion in Fort Worth brought together cast and crew, who waxed nostalgic on the seminal series and the book that inspired it.
Arts & Entertainment
April 4, 2016
Murders in the Night
An exclusive excerpt from The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer reveals a forgotten time in Austin history, when a series of brutal, unsolved slayings terrified officials and left them wondering if a madman was on the loose.
Arts & Entertainment
February 24, 2016
The Checklist
What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The Daily Post
January 28, 2016
Kent Finlay, Dreamer
An exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming book by Jenni Finlay and Brian T. Atkinson.
Books
January 27, 2016
Unidentified Scholarly Subject
Whitley Strieber’s academic communion takes shape.
Arts & Entertainment
January 27, 2016
The Checklist
What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
January 27, 2016
Darkness on the Edge of Town
How the kindest, gentlest family man in Nacogdoches began writing some of the creepiest, grisliest fiction in the country.
Arts & Entertainment
December 23, 2015
How J. Frank Dobie Got His Groove Back
In 1975 the estate of J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) established an endowment that would allow the University of Texas Press to keep his books in print for decades to come. Forty years later, the arrangement is still in place, and the press annually sells thousands of copies of
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Jeff Salamon
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Arts & Entertainment
December 23, 2015
The Checklist
What to watch, read, listen to, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Arts & Entertainment
December 23, 2015
Extreme Tenacity
X Games medalist Colten Moore isn’t giving up on the sport that killed his brother.
Arts & Entertainment
December 23, 2015
Los Miserables
Three academics plumb the rags-to-rags stories that have long been excluded from our state mythology.
The Daily Post
December 17, 2015
Ted Cruz Erotic Fan Fiction Is A Thing You Can Buy And Read Right Now
Oh, what a time to be alive.
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Dan Solomon
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Books
December 11, 2015
Bestselling Author Shea Serrano Is Live Tweeting Giving Out $100 Bills To Fast Food Workers
The bestselling author of 'The Rap Yearbook' is sharing his success with fast food workers and thrift store customers.
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Dan Solomon
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Arts & Entertainment
November 18, 2015
The Checklist
A look at what to read, hear, and watch this month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Arts & Entertainment
November 18, 2015
The Google of Texas
Answers to all of Texas's most pressing questions can be found in the brand-new edition of the Texas Almanac.
Books
November 18, 2015
Ripped From the Bloodlines
James Lee Burke may split his time between Louisiana and Montana, but he's never really left Texas.
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Jeff Salamon
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Arts & Entertainment
October 21, 2015
Voice of the Pines
In search of the mysterious, absurdist, and lyrical East Texas writer William Goyen.
Arts & Entertainment
October 21, 2015
The Checklist
A look at what to hear, read, watch, and see this month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Art
September 17, 2015
How the West Was Shot
Behind the lens with photographer Laura Wilson.
Books
September 17, 2015
The Checklist
A look at what to read, watch, and listen to this (wonderfully jam-packed) month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By
Jeff Salamon
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Books
September 17, 2015
Self-defense for Sheep
A few lessons from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson.
Books
September 14, 2015
10 Writers to Watch (and Read)
Move over, J. Frank Dobie and Larry McMurtry. Texas has entered a new golden age of literature—and these are a few of its standout voices.
Books
August 19, 2015
Brave Heart
Brené Brown explains why being vulnerable is the toughest and worthiest thing you can do.
Arts & Entertainment
August 19, 2015
The Checklist
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By
Jeff Salamon
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Arts & Entertainment
August 13, 2015
All the Way With LBJ
As five new books make clear, our thirty-sixth president refuses to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Travel & Outdoors
July 23, 2015
The Checklist
What to read, hear, watch, and look at to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By
Jeff Salamon
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Books
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.
By
Jeff Salamon
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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.
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Jeff Salamon
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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
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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???
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Dan Solomon
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Books
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.
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Dan Solomon
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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 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.
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Jeff Salamon
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