Don Graham

  • Perspectives on McMurtryville

    A couple of months ago I attended one of those ghastly book awards banquets put on by the University of Texas, where it was [...] Full Story

  • The Past is Teary

    SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. THE THIN RED LINE. The real war will never get into the books. –Walt Whitman. The real war will never get [...] Full Story

  • Proust in Texas

    DUANE’S DEPRESSED. When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps and submit myself [...] Full Story

  • Review

    Adam Braver’s novel about that day in Dallas, published in November 2008, 45 years after the assassination, apparently arrived too late for Texas media [...] Full Story

  • Deathless Prose

    With its February 2008 issue, Texas Monthly celebrates its 35th anniversary by profiling “35 People Who Will Shape Our Future.” That got literary eminence [...] Full Story

  • Afterword

    This past year, 2005, marked the centennial of Texas author William A. Owens (1905-1990), and in his home country, northeast Texas, they remembered. On [...] Full Story

  • The State of Texas Lit

    Perhaps another state honors its writers more than Texas, but if so I don’t know which one. We have the Texas Institute of Letters, [...] Full Story

  • Belles Lettres Blues

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