Robots
David Hanson on robot love.
Skip Hollandsworth is a staff writer at Texas Monthly specializing in longform narratives. He grew up in Wichita Falls, attended TCU in Fort Worth, and after graduation worked as a reporter and columnist for newspapers in Dallas. He also worked as a television producer and documentary filmmaker.
In 1989, Hollandsworth joined Texas Monthly, where he has received several journalism awards, including a National Headliner Award, the national John Hancock Award for excellence in business and financial journalism, the City and Regional Magazine Association gold award for feature writing, and the Texas Institute of Letters O. Henry Award for magazine writing. He has been a finalist four times for a National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, and in 2010 he won the National Magazine Award in feature writing for “Still Life,” his story about a young man who, after suffering a crippling football injury in high school, spent the next 33 years in his bedroom, unable to move. The comic crime movie Bernie, which Hollandsworth cowrote with director Richard Linklater, was released in May 2012. It’s based on Hollandsworth’s 1998 story “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas.” His book, The Midnight Assassin, a true-crime historical thriller, was published in April 2016 and became a New York Times best-seller.
David Hanson on robot love.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
No Country for Old Men is Tommy Lee Jones’s new movie. I don’t think he’ll be granting me an interview anytime soon.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Andrea Yates does battle with her demons. Again.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
As Helen Wagner’s world turns.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
If he was asked what he did for a living, Roddy Dean Pippin would smile and say something about the cattle business. But he didn’t exactly buy and sell cows. He stole them. And right up until he was caught, he was as good as any such thief had ever
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
A real-life G.I. Joe, Master Sergeant James Coons hardly seemed like a candidate for post-traumatic stress disorder. But when his demons got the best of him, there was nothing anyone could do—not that anyone really tried.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Homecoming in the town of Spur means football, the crowning of a queen, parades, pep rallies, barbecue, a bonfire, and so much more.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
The feds knew him as a prolific bank robber. But the bearded man who eluded them for so long was not who they imagined him to be. And absolutely no one expected the story to end the way it did.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
She shares that curious fact with you for posterior’s— er, posterity’s sake. What you really need to know about the shopgirl turned shoplifter is that her rehabilitation is continuing apace atop Dallas’ social heap. And thanks to a new reality show about her life, there’s no end in sight.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
The Panhandle DA known statewide for his zeal in busting drug dealers and abusers turns out to have been an addict. Prosecutor, heal thyself.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
How a woman who sold sex toys in Burleson became public enemy number one and survived the bad buzz.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
The car crash that killed four teenage girls in Tatum last September is an East Texas version of a Greek tragedy, one that has forced the tiny town's residents to address some of life's most agonizing questions: When the worst things happenwhen the most heartbreaking events come into your life
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
To his suburban Dallas neighbors, Todd Becker was a doting husband and devoted father. They had no clue that he led a secret, lucrative life as a safecracker.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Three cheers for Tyler Hollandsworth, a stereotypical Dallas girl.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
America's notoriously needy readers certainly doand for the robust health of this publishing genre, they have Dallas in general and Phil McGraw's agent in particular to thank.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Michael Morales' guilty plea doesn't answer the most interesting question about his attempted extortion of Tony Sanchez: Who else knew about his cockamamy plot, and when did they know it?
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Good question, and everyone seems to have an answer: To be respected for her accomplishments as a U.S. senator. To help lead the GOP after its Election Day triumph. To be a mom, finally, in her late fifties. To come back home and run for governor—maybe. But, please, no psychobabble.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Why would a devoted wife deliberately run over her beloved husband three times? It’s quite simple, really. He was having an affair with a woman accused by her allegedly pill-popping ex-husband of carrying on a lesbian relationship with her best friend, whose ex-husband has been indicted for an illegal wiretapping
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
AS MUCH AS I LIKE to think of myself as a grand adventurer, an explorer of all things exotic, I have to admit that when it came time for my Mexican vacation, I headed straight for a beach resort. I’m not talking about a tiny hotel on a remote beach
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Darlie Routier has been on death row for five years now, always insisting that she didn't kill her sons Devon and Damon. And as her lawyers prepare to head into court yet again, new information about her case raises the possibility that she may have been telling the truth all
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Executive editor Skip Hollandsworth talks about Pat Green and this month's cover story, "With Envy."
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Pat Green’s fans—and they are legion—love his songs about the joys of Luckenbach and Lone Star beer. His critics—also legion—think his lyrics are trite. But no matter how you feel about him, there’s no denying that he’s the hottest country music act in Texas. And that he has made the
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
The Dallas Police Department's Sheetrock Scandal.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
The North Texas teenager went missing in the late eighties. For years, no one knew where she was, or even if she was still alive-no one, that is, except a mysterious young woman two thousand miles away.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Vanessa Leggett plots her own true-crime story.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Psst! Looking to have somebody murdered? You might want to call Gary Johnson, the number one hired killer in Houston. Then again you might not. You see he works for the cops.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
On October 14, 1987, an eighteen-month-old toddler named Jessica McClure fell 22 feet into an abandoned Midland water well that was only eight inches in diameter. For the next three days, rescuers frantically dug a tunnel to reach her while the little girl sang nursery rhymes to herself, called
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
It was the great Houston murder mystery of the nineties. Who shot 46-year-old Doris Angleton, the beautiful, ebullient River Oaks mother of two young daughters and the wife of Robert Angleton, Houston’s top bookmaker? When Doris was found in her home in 1997—she had been shot thirteen times—their friends speculated
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Once notorious, Candy Barr's now anonymousand happily so.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
In 1990 the legendary Thoroughbred was put to sleep after his leg was broken—an accident, it seemed, until a tenacious prosecutor linked his death to a Houston bank scandal.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
LeAnn Rimes was a marshmallow-cheeked thirteen-year-old when she made it big. Now, five years later, she is locked in bitter legal battles with both her estranged father and her Nashville record company, and her life and career are collapsing around her. Can America's country princess get back on track?
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Executive editor Skip Hollandsworth tells the story behind this month's cover story about LeAnn Rimes.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
How the Texas Seven will change the state's prisons.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
A passel of Texans invaded the nation’s capital in January, and the town may never be the same. A report from the inaugral front.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Can a savvy Hollywood dealmaker also be as down-home and unassuming as an old shoe? He can if he's Austin's Bill Wittliff, an award-winning screenwriter, an accomplished photographer, a collector with a passion for the pastin short, the nicest Renaissance man you'll ever meet.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
It was a modern-day horror story: a little girl hidden away in rat-infested squalor for most of her life. When the authorities took her away from her mother and grandmother, the nine-year-old had never been to school or played outside.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Senior editor Skip Hollandsworth tells the story behind this month's cover story, "Can't Buy Me Love." How he got his sources to talk, what he did when they wouldn't, and other secrets of his reporting.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Take one of the nation's wealthiest men, the enigmatic, Egyptian-born Fayez Sarofim. Add his socialite first wife and her brassy successor. Stir in River Oaks mansions and greedy lawyers, boatloads of money and oceans of booze. Mix it all together and what do you get? A hell of a mess
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Sixteen years after her Olympic triumph, Mary Lou Retton talks about her family, her career, and what she really thought of Bela Karolyi.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
It's all in the gams.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Not just a pretty face.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
In a year-long spree that began in late 1884, Texas’ first serial killer butchered seven women and one man in Austin. More than a century later questions about his identity and his motive remain unanswered.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
For years Dallas’ most prolific jewel thief robbed the mansions of socialites like Nancy Brinker and Annette Simmons. If not for his girlfriend’s crack use, he might have gotten away with it forever.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
“When it comes to individual athletic superiority, few people in the world can touch long, lean, impossibly fast Carl Lewis, who came to Texas in 1979, qualified for the Olympics in 1980, and dominated his sport—the world of sports, actually—for the next sixteen years.”
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Investigators in the coastal plain think so, and they’re doing what they can to tie the retired NASA engineer to the deaths of at least four young women there. But thus far the tangible evidence has eluded them. And, consequently, so has he.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Oprah’s guru.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
How much do Tom Hicks and Jerry Jones pay themselves for the privilege of owning the Dallas Stars, the Texas Rangers, and the Dallas Cowboys? That and more in a revealing joint interview.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Has Dan Morales gone up in smoke? by Skip Hollandsworth.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
From Harvard to Hesitation Hill, the nation’s most motivated motivational speaker is much in demand. And he’ll still see you at the top.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.
Those rumors you’ve heard about him are true. Sort of.
Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives.