
Fiction

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.’
‘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.
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.
Kimberly King Parsons’s Fiction Illuminates Intimate Texas Moments
The Lubbock-born author reflects on her debut short story collection, ‘Black Light.’
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?
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Swamp Think
Joe R. Lansdale has made a career out of a hard-boiled vision of East Texas.
David E. Hilton
On his new novel, Kings of Colorado, and more.
Bohemian Rhapsody
An ambitious, sometimes bewildering, debut novel about Czech Texas.
It’s All Greek to Him
Rick Riordan greeks out with a Percy Jackson spin-off.
Violence Is Golden
James Carlos Blake’s latest novel explores the sins of the grandfather.
Father Knows West
Is it time to revisit Larry McMurtry’s Berrybender Narratives?
The Informationist
Read an excerpt from a new novel by Taylor Stevens.
Pym
Read an excerpt from a new novel by Mat Johnson.
Excerpt: The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
A new novel by Ann Weisgarber.
Ann Weisgarber
On her new novel, The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, and more.
Twin Wells
Chapter Three of “Twin Wells,” by David Searcy.
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
Let’er Rip!
Brown’s formula for success guarantees a happy ending.
Shock Treatment
Three new books deliver sordid stories of drugged-up cops, kinky murderers, and a real-life drug kingpin.
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.
My Home, the Galleria
Texas’ most glamorous mall has all the comforts of home and then some. So why not move in?