
Arts & Entertainment
February 24, 2016
The Checklist
What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The author on hunting deer, knowing the land, and writing about his family.
For decades, a treasured plot of Hill Country land meant one thing to the men in my family: a chance to kill lots of deer. Today, it means something different.
Read a Q&A with Rick Bass.
The first commandment of fiction writing is: Show, don’t tell. Rick Bass knows it well, though he still struggled through many drafts before finishing his first novel, Where the Sea Used to Be (Houghton Mifflin, $25), which will be published this month. “Paint the images and trust the readers to