Skip Hollandsworth

State of Mind, Episode 2: O Sister, Where Art Thou?

Skip Hollandsworth tells the story of tracking down the Goree All Girl String Band, who became national radio sensations in the 1940s before suddenly disappearing.

From the Editor, October 2020: “Learning to Listen”

How Skip Hollandsworth does it.

Behind the Lines: Executive Editor Skip Hollandsworth on ‘The Sting’

Listen to the first episode of our new series, which takes you into the minds of some of Texas Monthly's great writers and editors.

Terms of Endearment

How I came to love Larry McMurtry.

SXSW Film: The “Bernie” Screening

Richard Linklater's newest movie received a rollicking hometown reception. 

Richard Linklater’s New Movie Trailer

Bernie, which is set in Carthage, opens nationwide on April 27 and stars Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. 

A Q&A With Skip Hollandsworth

The executive editor on writing about prostitutes, working with detectives, and recreating scenes.

A Q&A With Skip Hollandsworth

The executive editor on Miranda Lambert hitting it big, her marriage to Blake Shelton, and one of the country star’s most unappreciated assets.

A Q&A With Skip Hollandsworth

The executive editor on attending TCU, following the Horned Frogs, and why Gary Patterson may be the best college football coach in Texas.

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Made in Midland

Skip Hollandsworth talks about rigs, the trickle-down effect, and the new generation of oilmen.

Primal Screen

Here is a partial list of the nice people Skip Hollandsworth has written about since he joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1989: Charles Albright, a serial killer in Dallas who removed his victims’ eyes; Marie Robards, a Fort Worth teenager who killed her father by poisoning

Still Life

A violent tackle in a high school football game paralyzed John McClamrock for life. His mother made sure it was a life worth living.

Defending Lance

Defending the boy who killed his father; Ivan Rodriguez is a hit.

Skip, Not Even a Peek?

Farrah play. Plus: Remembering the forgotten people.

Babes in the ’Hoods

Thought the competition between Texas cities was over? Until my daughter was born in Dallas and a friend’s was born in Austin, so did I.

Skip, a Beat

JUST AS HE WAS FINISHING up “Poisoning Daddy”, his tale of a Fort Worth teenager who killed her father, senior editor Skip Hollandsworth set out to interview the sibling models featured on this month’s Face page. As it happened, one of the sisters, Wende Parks, had been

Hero Worship

The Quickest Draw In the West

Not since Remington and Russell has a cowboy artist sold so many works—for so much—as Fredericksburg’s G. Harvey.