Novels

Aug 19, 2019 — By Andy Langer

On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, the Houston author discusses her new novel, ‘Things You Save in a Fire.’

Jan 20, 2013 — By Michael Hall

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.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

Forty years after its publication, Horseman, Pass By is still one of Larry McMurtry's finest novels—and as groundbreaking as J. D. Salinger's masterpiece.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Michael DiLeo

As Sandra Scofield, Shelby Hearon, and Janet Peery are proving, you don’t have to live in Texas to be a Texas writer.

Apr 30, 1999 — By Jan Reid

Meet El Paso novelist James Carlos Blake, who writes critically acclaimed literary westerns with lots of violence but few female characters. Sound familiar?

Apr 30, 1999 — By Katy Vine

David Hale Smith rejects more than three hundred manuscripts each month, but when he accepts one, publishers take note. Since 1994, when he left the tutelage of Dallas superagent Jan Miller and founded his own agency, DHS Literary, the thirty-year-old has established himself as one of the industry’s young lions,…

Apr 30, 1977 — By Larry McMurtry

In which our author hints that Texas men are in for a rude awakening.