Houston native, 7th-generation Texan, and Rice grad Brad Tyer has contributed to the
Observer as a writer and editor since the mid-1990s. He’s worked as music editor at the
Houston Press and editor-in-chief of Missoula, Montana’s
Independent; his freelance work has been published in
The New York Times Book Review,
Outside,
High Country News,
No Depression, and
The Drake, among other venues. Brad was awarded a 2010 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan and a 2011 grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to support research for his first book,
Opportunity, Montana, published by Beacon Press in March, 2013.
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"Crónicas: Seven Contemporary Mexican Artists," uniquely interprets the drug war in Mexico through the eyes of seven young Mexican artists and photographers. Full Story
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It was not my fight. That was not even my part of the country anymore; I had been living out of the state for [...] Full Story
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Trash fish, trash fish swimming in the big ditchTrash fish, trash fish swimming in the big ditchAll the way from Jericho to the Gulf [...] Full Story
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There I was, sweating midnight puddles in a nylon tent at the Enchanted Rock campground, convincing myself that if I survived the swelter and [...] Full Story
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By the time you read this, it will officially be summertime, and I’ve got heat on the brain and meat on my mind. Partly [...] Full Story
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“Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and [...] Full Story
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"Crónicas: Seven Contemporary Mexican Artists," uniquely interprets the drug war in Mexico through the eyes of seven young Mexican artists and photographers. Full Story
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In 1992 I was a freshly minted music critic in Houston, just returned from a sojourn in grungy Portland, Oregon, with a chip on [...] Full Story
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Maybe the most surprising thing about David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King is how easy a read it is. At 538 pages, it’s anyone’s [...] Full Story
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Some people remember exactly what they were doing when Pearl Harbor was bombed or their whereabouts when JFK was shot. I remember reading my [...] Full Story
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Some people remember exactly what they were doing when Pearl Harbor was bombed or their whereabouts when JFK was shot. I remember reading my [...] Full Story
