Brad Tyer

Brad Tyer
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.

  • Back of the Book

    I miss Yellow Journalism. I mean obviously I wasn’t there, 110 years ago, when William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer were duking it out [...] Full Story

  • Back of the Book

    “Oh Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, Daniel … Please … Do grow up. My new world demands less obvious heroism, making your schoolboy heroics redundant.” —Big-brained [...] Full Story

  • Back of the Book

    East Texas scares the hell out of me. I’ve got a picture of myself at maybe 8 with my dad and his dad and [...] Full Story

  • Dead Man Talking

    “Here’s the deal, folks. You do a commercial, you’re off the artistic roll call, forever. End of story. Okay? You’re another whore at the [...] Full Story

  • The Water Front

    Aquarena Springs, in San Marcos, is no longer the commercial tourist attraction it once was, but at the soberer Aquarena Center, operated since 1996 [...] Full Story