The Daily Post
August 17, 2017
The Agony and the Ecstasy of the State Fair Food Finalists
The grim traveler sampled the offerings with a heavy heart.
Cormac McCarthy
The Culture
February 12, 2014
Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
Film & TV
November 16, 2013
Cormac Relief
Will Cormac McCarthy’s films tarnish his literary reputation?…
Books
July 8, 2013
Back in the Saddle Again
Novelist James Carlos Blake, who has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, returns to his prolific writing pace, releasing two books in less than a year.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
Cormac McCarthy Rewrites Science
The formerly reclusive author moonlights as a copy editor, taking his red pen to Quantum Man, a biography of a physicist.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
“Cormac McCarthy” Twitter Account Debunked in Record Time
But “@cormaccmccarthy” still has more than 3,200 followers.
Books
January 20, 2013
Desperately Seeking Cormac
Cormac McCarthy’s birth date and birthplace are just two of the facts about him that have eluded his rabid fans—until now. A dossier on the most fiercely private writer in Texas.
The Culture
January 19, 2012
Cormac McCarthy Pens First Major Original Script
The Counselor has already been optioned by the same producing team that adapted McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road.
Books
February 1, 2008
Bruce Sterling
The Brownsville native and longtime Austinite has spent most of his adult life contemplating the future: A progenitor of the scruffy cyberpunk fiction movement (he edited the short-story anthology Mirrorshades and co-authored The Difference Engine with William Gibson), he has penned ten sci-fi novels and several works of nonfiction, including…
Books
January 1, 2007
Sunset Limited
Imagine a stage play with two characters in a ghetto tenement debating the value of life: White is a professor who jumped in front of a train, and Black is the ex-con who rescued him. This is the premise, weighted with all the pretensions of an Intro to Dramaturgy effort,…
Books
April 30, 1999
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Next Cormac McCarthy
Meet El Paso novelist James Carlos Blake, who writes critically acclaimed literary westerns with lots of violence but few female characters. Sound familiar?…