David Duhr
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Submit: 2013 Texas Observer Short Story Contest Now Open for Entries
When Larry McMurtry agreed in 2011 to guest-judge The Texas Observer’s first short story contest, we at the magazine were thrilled: what better name [...] Full Story -
Winning Words
A few weeks ago we offered a roundup of Texas books recently nominated for or winning major awards. As literary awards season rolls on, [...] Full Story -
New and Noteworthy Books: March
Benjamin Alire Saenz’s story collection Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, published by El Paso’s Cinco Puntos Press, has won the 2013 [...] Full Story -
Elizabeth Black’s The Drowning House Is a Book Gasping For Breath
Black heaps far more gravitas on her characters than they can support; the mysteries fizzle undramatically; and narrator Clare is despicable. Full Story -
New and Noteworthy Books: February
The Observer's periodic round-up of recent and forthcoming books by Texas authors, on Texas presses, or about Texas topics. Full Story
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Elizabeth Black’s The Drowning House Is a Book Gasping For Breath
Black heaps far more gravitas on her characters than they can support; the mysteries fizzle undramatically; and narrator Clare is despicable. Full Story -
Brian Allen Carr On Vampire Conditions and Being a Texas Boy
Vampire Conditions, the new story collection from Brian Allen Carr, includes his 2011 Texas Observer Short Story Contest prize winner “The First Henley.” Recently [...] Full Story -
Austin’s Literary Fairy Godmother
Around the time Fifty Shades of Grey became a worrisome phenomenon, a quieter novel, one without bondage porn or roots in Twilight fan fiction, [...] Full Story -
Albert of Adelaide: A Debut Novel Set Down Under
Howard Anderson says he just wants to live long enough to finish his second novel. The publisher’s bio for the 69-year-old debut novelist states [...] Full Story -
Challenging the War on Drugs
While public support for the legalization of marijuana in the United States has risen significantly in the last few years, it’s still fairly uncommon [...] Full Story
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