Fiction
Books
June 22, 2021
Debut Novelist Kelsey McKinney on Losing Her Religion and Leaving Texas
A conversation with the author of the moving and assured ‘God Spare the Girls.’
Books
May 17, 2021
‘Dumplin’’ Author Julie Murphy on Fat Positivity and Writing Queer Characters
The Fort Worth author’s new book follows a gay teen’s bid for prom queen in a fictional West Texas town.
The National Podcast of Texas
September 16, 2019
Kimberly King Parsons: “Maybe We Call What I Do Queer Psychedelic Texas Fiction?”
On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, a conversation with the Plano-raised writer whose debut story collection, ‘Black Light,’ has garnered rave reviews.
Books
August 23, 2019
Kimberly King Parsons’s Fiction Illuminates Intimate Texas Moments
The Lubbock-born author reflects on her debut short story collection, ‘Black Light.’
Books
May 24, 2013
Hog Hunting With Texas’s Next Literary Giant
Philipp Meyer is impressing the literary world with his second novel, The Son, a multigenerational epic about an oil and ranching dynasty in Texas that is being called the most ambitious Texas novel in years. But how did this East Coast-reared man manage to capture the spirit of the state?
Books
May 13, 2013
Big Little Man
“By the time I’d been with the band a year, I was treated the same as any other Comanche.” An excerpt from Philipp Meyer’s epic new novel, “The Son.”
Books
January 21, 2013
Ben Fountain Undoes Dallas
The acclaimed author is publishing his first novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. And some of his neighbors may not be happy.
Books
January 21, 2013
Like a Writer
Bizarre similes pour forth from debut novelist Jonathan Woods’s fingers like wine from a bottomless bottle that is also missing its cork.
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January 21, 2013
Dagoberto Gilb Returns to Writing After His Stroke
Before the End, After the Beginning, the author's first collection since his stroke, draws on his personal crisis for inspiration.
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January 21, 2013
Swamp Think
Joe R. Lansdale has made a career out of a hard-boiled vision of East Texas.
Books
January 20, 2013
David E. Hilton
On his new novel, Kings of Colorado, and more.
Books
January 20, 2013
Bohemian Rhapsody
An ambitious, sometimes bewildering, debut novel about Czech Texas.
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January 20, 2013
It’s All Greek to Him
Rick Riordan greeks out with a Percy Jackson spin-off.
Books
February 1, 2012
Violence Is Golden
James Carlos Blake’s latest novel explores the sins of the grandfather.
Books
December 1, 2011
Father Knows West
Is it time to revisit Larry McMurtry’s Berrybender Narratives?
Books
March 1, 2011
The Informationist
Read an excerpt from a new novel by Taylor Stevens.
Books
March 1, 2011
Pym
Read an excerpt from a new novel by Mat Johnson.
Books
August 31, 2010
Excerpt: The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
A new novel by Ann Weisgarber.
Books
August 31, 2010
Ann Weisgarber
On her new novel, The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, and more.
Texquisite Corpse
March 1, 2008
Twin Wells
Chapter Three of “Twin Wells,” by David Searcy.
Being Texan
November 1, 1991
Texas Breaks Away
The ceremony was to honor the four-score living Texans who had participated in the Revolution. They were all quite old, of course. It had been 75 years since 1992, when Texas had become a breakaway republic and, like Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and the Ukraine in Soviet Russia, sought independence from a
Books
September 30, 1991
Let’er Rip!
Brown’s formula for success guarantees a happy ending.
Books
April 30, 1990
Shock Treatment
Three new books deliver sordid stories of drugged-up cops, kinky murderers, and a real-life drug kingpin.
Politics & Policy
August 1, 1984
The Way It’s Going to Be
Turn off the TV. Go fishing. Here’s the inside story of what will happen at the convention, complete with Nancy Reagan’s tacky visit to a bowling alley.
Style & Design
June 30, 1980
My Home, the Galleria
Texas’ most glamorous mall has all the comforts of home and then some. So why not move in?