Quick Links

Fiction

The-Letters-Andrew-Porter-American-Short-Fiction-feat
Books|
January 18, 2024

The Letters

In this original short story, a San Antonio divorcé receives a series of missives from his elderly mother that hint at a past he never knew about.

By

The Culture|
February 12, 2015

Origami Prunes

In this exclusive excerpt from Barefoot Dogs, a fiction debut by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a woman fleeing terror in Mexico City finds escape in an Austin laundromat.

By

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?

By

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.”

By

Books|
January 21, 2013

Like a Writer

Bizarre similes pour forth from debut novelist Jonathan Woods’s fingers like wine from a bottomless bottle that is also missing its cork.

By

Books|
January 20, 2013

Catcher in the Raw

Forty years after its publication, Horseman, Pass By is still one of Larry McMurtry's finest novels—and as groundbreaking as J. D. Salinger's masterpiece.

By

Sarah Bird|
June 30, 2011

Sink or Swim

In an excerpt from Sarah Bird's new novel The Gap Year, a single mom prepares to send her only daughter off to college. Guess which one is a wreck.

By

Books|
April 30, 2011

The Peculiar Monument

In this exclusive excerpt from Remember Ben Clayton, a new novel by Stephen Harrigan, a sculptor meets a lonely rancher who has lost his son and needs something to remember him by.

By

Books|
March 31, 2011

An Excerpt From Devil Red

Chapter 1We were parked at the curb in Leonard’s car, sitting near a busted-out streetlight. We were looking at a house about a block up. It was a dark house on a dark street next to another dark house, and beyond that was an abandoned baseball field grown up with

By

Oscar Casares|
July 31, 2009

Therapy Room

An exclusive excerpt from writer-at-large Oscar Casares's forthcoming first novel, Amigoland

By

Texquisite Corpse|
December 1, 2008

Twin Wells

The final chapter of “Twin Wells,” by Elmer Kelton.

By

Texquisite Corpse|
September 30, 2008

Twin Wells

Chapter Ten of “Twin Wells,” by Diana López.

By

The Culture|
June 30, 2008

How to Customize a Cowboy Hat

The MaterialA cowboy hat is a beloved possession: It fans fires, it blocks the rain, it gives shade—and it lends authenticity at any honky-tonk or greased-pig contest. But it’s also an extension of one’s personality, so commissioning one takes serious thought (and serious dough: from $300 to $1,500). The first

By

Magazine Latest