The Inside Story
Tastes good.
Former Texas Monthly editor in chief Gregory Curtis was born in Corpus Christi and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a BA in English from Rice University and a master’s in English from San Francisco State College. While in San Francisco, he ran a small printing and publishing company. He came to Texas Monthly in 1972 as part of the original staff. In 1981 he became editor in chief, a position he held until 2000. In addition to Texas Monthly, he has written for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Fortune, and Time. Curtis is the author of three books—Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo, The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World’s First Artists, and Paris Without Her: A Memoir. He lives in Austin. Once an adequate equestrian, he is now an aspiring magician.
Tastes good.
Take cover.
Laser Eyes.
No contest.
Over the transom.
The truth, the whole truth.
Horsefeathers and other plumage.
Good sports and green grape cobbler.
Reporter blooms.
Writers, pensive and frenetic.
Tales of our intrepid authors.
Some disagree. They are wrong.
Charismatics start by losing their heads and end up with a new kind of religion.
Move over Harold Robbons: religious books sell big.
One week with a thousand cheerleaders.
There’s more at stake than money when two hustlers cue up.
This is the Houston Rockets. We have lift-off.
How to stale the wild house cat and other tips for indoor survival.
Somewhere L.M. Boyd has an index card for everything.
This information may come as news to you, but casino owners have been banking on it for years.
Introducing the perfect pickle.
The girl wanted love, the men wanted money, and when they all got together it was murder.
The weirdest student demonstration ever.
If you want a suit only a soul singer would wear, we’ve got a tailor for you.
Wrestling isn’t fixed; it was never broken.
The worst things in life are free; venereal disease, for instance.
Is doing what comes naturally good enough these days?
Don’t bet your life—or your livelihood—on a football point spread.
When a noted American humorist retired to Alpine, the joke was on him.
Star light, star bright, will the computer work tonight?
Sole food for Middle America.
How the Dallas SPCA got itself indicted for cruelty to animals, and other shaggy dog stories.
The irresistible lure of used paperbacks.
From machismo to counterculture in one decade.
The loneliness of the long distance bachelor.
A different sort of women’s movement has this basic belief: give in and ye shall receive.
For A. O. Pipkin, happiness is a head-on collision he wasn’t in.
In Lubbock Buddy Holly was just a skinny kid with glasses, but to rock-and-roll fans he was—and is—a whole lot more.
One of pro basketball’s smartest players thinks about everything but the game.
The private life of a public high school.
For a theater owner, money has redeeming social value.
Being a straight shooter is its own reward.
He left a police department, a mayor, and fifty bodies in his wake.
Separating the dancer from the dance in the world of strip tease.
Boxing is the real school of hard knocks. James Helwig, the Texas Heavyweight Champion, hopes he’ll be able to graduate in time.
A look at new work from Larry King, Ronnie Dugger, and Edwin Shrake.
Witches are where you find them. But where is that?
Doug Sahm’s music is his own, but what luck that he plays it for everybody.
Our reviewer, whose capacity for punishment is apparently boundless, reports on ten best-selling paperback books.
Try something different next time you head West.