The Culture
July 24, 2017
The Seven Question Interview: Adam Sternbergh
Author Adam Sternbergh tells us how a Canadian-raised Brooklynite wrote a book set in West Texas.
Fiction
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.
Books
January 20, 2013
Catcher in the Raw
Forty years after its publication, Horseman, Pass By is still one of Larry McMurtry's finest novelsand as groundbreaking as J. D. Salinger's masterpiece.
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.
Feature
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.
Web Exclusive
March 31, 2011
An Excerpt From Devil Red
Chapter 1 We 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
Oscar Casares
July 31, 2009
Therapy Room
An exclusive excerpt from writer-at-large Oscar Casares's forthcoming first novel, Amigoland
Texquisite Corpse
October 31, 2008
Twin Wells
Chapter Eleven of “Twin Wells,” by Stephen Graham Jones.
The Culture
June 30, 2008
How to Customize a Cowboy Hat
The Material A 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
Suzy Banks
January 1, 2007
The Horror! The Horror!
How my lifelong dream of writing a novel turned into a nightmare.
Feature
April 1, 2006
Liftoff!
In this exclusive excerpt from Stephen Harrigan’s new novel, Challenger Park, a female astronaut confronts mommy-track issues on the way to outer space.
The Culture
February 1, 1993
Return of the Native Son
For years he renounced his Texas ties. Now Larry McMurty is once again calling Archer City home.
Being Texan
November 1, 1991
Texas Breaks Away
The ceremony was to honor the four-score living Texans who had participated in the Revolution. They were all quite old, of course. It had been 75 years since 1992, when Texas had become a breakaway republic and, like Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and the Ukraine in Soviet Russia, sought independence from a