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True tales from the world of junking.
Mimi Swartz, the author, with Sherron Watkins, of Power Failure, The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron, is an executive editor of Texas Monthly. Previously, she was a staff writer at Talk, from April 1999 to April 2001, and a staff writer at the New Yorker from 1997 to 2001. Prior to joining the New Yorker, she worked at Texas Monthly for thirteen years. In 1996 Swartz was a finalist for two National Magazine Awards and won in the public interest category for “Not What the Doctor Ordered.” She was also a National Magazine Award finalist for her November 2005 issue story on tort reform, titled “Hurt? Injured? Need a Lawyer? Too Bad!” and won the 2006 John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest, Magazine Journalism, for the same story. In 2013 she won her second National Magazine Award (again in the category of public interest), for “Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives,” a compelling look at the state of women's health care in Texas.
Over the years, Swartz’s work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, Slate, National Geographic, and the New York Times’ op-ed page and Sunday magazine. It has also been collected in Best American Political Writing 2006 and Best American Sportswriting 2007. She has been a member of the Texas Institute of Letters since 1994. Swartz grew up in San Antonio and graduated from Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She now lives in Houston with her husband, John Wilburn, and son, Sam.
True tales from the world of junking.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
A Houston boutique enjoys the high cost of growing up.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
Just how good were the good ol' days, when Louie Welch was mayor of Houston?
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
San Antonio city councilman Bernardo Eureste took a paltry arts budget and built it into a $3 million power base. Then he got mad and tore it all apart.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
After encountering this small brown barb, the wise Texas child learns to pick and choose his fights with the landscape.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
There are a hundred of them, and their job is invisibility. They come into giant office buildings after everyone has gone home and, if they do the job right, make the evidence of the day’s work disappear.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
Houston’s career-oriented magnet schools are putting too much emphasis on work and too little on education.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
In the sixties a small company in Medina produced a wooden box decorated with rhinestones. It became a Texas tradition.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
Minor emergency centers are fine for those who don’t need much more than a Band-Aid, a throat culture, or a summer-camp physical.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
China, crystal, waiters in tuxedos. That’s what we love about Tony’s.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
From Requiem for a Margarita.1/2 ounce of Triple Sec (1 tablespoon)1 ounce of fresh lime juice 1 1/2 ounces of light tequilaMaking the best margarita in town—at home—is not a matter of money. It does not depend on buying the best tequila or substituting classy Cointreau for the cheaper
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
Tequila, tequila, everywhere, and not a drop in your margarita.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
At last the truth about beauty salon make-overs: the new you may not be a change for the better.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.
Where to find the best food, crafts, and arts in the Alamo City.
Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston.