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.

  • Editorial

    “The world craves book reviews far more heartily than it craves books.” —John Updike, 1982 I didn’t get a Kindle for Christmas, possibly because [...] Full Story

  • Ink-Stained Kvetches

    So these three editorial cartoonists walk into a bar … Wait, hold on, let’s back this joke up. First of all, there’s no bar. [...] Full Story

  • Change, Anyone?

    It was Tuesday afternoon, the second day of the Democratic National Convention, and I was squatting by a sofa in a leased warren of [...] Full Story

  • The Writing on the Rails

    Conrail Twitty. Coaltrain. Palm Tree Herby. Smokin’ Joe. Waterbed Lou. Seldom Seen. Bozo Texino. The Rambler. Colossus of Roads. Is there any way to [...] Full Story

  • Dateline Texas

    Laredo is a city proud of its history, and even more proud of its connectivity. Established in 1755 at a crossing point for sheep, [...] Full Story