From the Editor, May 2020: “It’s All Been a Blur”
When we started planning this issue, months ago, we had a fun lineup in mind. Then oil prices crashed and the coronavirus brought much of the state to a standstill.
Dan Goodgame is Texas Monthly’s editor in chief. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and best-selling author, Goodgame joined TM in early 2019, after serving as a vice president at Rackspace, a cloud computing company based in San Antonio. Before that, Goodgame was editor in chief of Fortune Small Business magazine, whose subscribers were more than a million owners of entrepreneurial companies. He earlier worked for Time magazine as White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief, and assistant managing editor. He is coauthor of the book Marching in Place, about the first president Bush. Goodgame previously worked for the Miami Herald, including as a correspondent in the Middle East, covering the Israel-Lebanon and Iran-Iraq wars. A native of Pascagoula, Mississippi, Goodgame earned a bachelor’s degree at Ole Miss and a master’s in international relations at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
When we started planning this issue, months ago, we had a fun lineup in mind. Then oil prices crashed and the coronavirus brought much of the state to a standstill.
By Dan Goodgame
And a special gift for subscribers!
By Dan Goodgame and Scott Brown
Robert Draper, like the people he interviewed for this month's cover story, is driven by a need to understand the past.
By Dan Goodgame
On two generations of talented storytellers contributing to our pages.
By Dan Goodgame
With our hit Boomtown podcast, Texas Monthly is learning new ways to tell stories.
By Dan Goodgame
Plus, feeling grateful for our gimlet-eyed deputy editor, Jeff Salamon.
By Dan Goodgame
On bee stings and boots—both cowboy and combat.
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On Texas Monthly’s newest hires.
By Dan Goodgame
On the battle over Texas history, a serial killer in Laredo, and more in our October issue.
By Dan Goodgame
On honky-tonks, a collaboration with the Texas Tribune, and more in our September issue.
By Dan Goodgame
A letter from our editor.
By Dan Goodgame
A letter from our editor.
By Dan Goodgame
A letter from our editor.
By Dan Goodgame
A letter from our editor.
By Dan Goodgame
A letter from our editor.
By Dan Goodgame
Beginning today, we’re asking those who read our work online to do what our print subscribers have done for 46 years: subscribe to Texas Monthly.
By Dan Goodgame