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Writers Bloc
People who make up lists are asking for trouble, but here goes. May being Texas Writers Month, it seemed a good time to put together a literary map celebrating the state’s leading scribblers. With that...
View ArticleKatherine the Great
MAY IS TEXAS WRITERS MONTH, an occasion traditionally accompanied by a poster celebrating a Texas writer. But when the event’s organizers chose William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) for this year’s honors,...
View ArticleFriedrichsburg Revisited
Thanks to the sturdy scholarship and translation skills of James C. Kearney, we have a new addition to the Texas literary map, a kind of redistricting as it were, whereby the modern-day tourist town of...
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Still Searching
Once upon a time everybody in Texas knew the story of Cynthia Ann Parker. They learned it along with the stories of the Alamo and Spindletop and the lyrics to “Get Along Little Dogies.” Not so much...
View ArticleThe Class of ’63
Although John F. Kennedy died half a century ago this month, the legend of his assassination lives on—at least in the publishing industry, which has never stopped taking us back again and again and...
View ArticleWhite Like Me
WHEN THE SUPREME COURT HANDED down its groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education decision fifty years ago, I was working on my curveball and didn’t notice. There were other momentous events of 1954,...
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