Mary Helen Specht
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- I’d Give You a True Word : How Michael Ventura Speaks to My Texas
Leaving Abilene for college after a Christmas vacation 15 years ago, I noticed somebody had blacked out the letter “P” from one of the [...] Full Story -
The Disappearance of Gertrude Beasley
In 1987, my mother received a letter from Larry McMurtry inquiring about an obscure Texas author named Edna Gertrude Beasley, and another family obsession [...] Full Story -
Prairie Renaissance
After so many years away from Abilene, I had almost begun to believe that the stories I told about my hometown were the only [...] Full Story -
Jeweled Betrayals
It’s counterintuitive but true: In today’s economy, short-story collections sell far fewer copies than novels. Perhaps this partly explains the emergence of publishing’s newest [...] Full Story -
Border Teens
The larger publishing industry is crumbling, but “young adult” fiction appears to be holding steady, even growing. As someone who as a child read [...] Full Story
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- I’d Give You a True Word : How Michael Ventura Speaks to My Texas
Leaving Abilene for college after a Christmas vacation 15 years ago, I noticed somebody had blacked out the letter “P” from one of the [...] Full Story -
The Disappearance of Gertrude Beasley
In 1987, my mother received a letter from Larry McMurtry inquiring about an obscure Texas author named Edna Gertrude Beasley, and another family obsession [...] Full Story -
Prairie Renaissance
After so many years away from Abilene, I had almost begun to believe that the stories I told about my hometown were the only [...] Full Story -
Jeweled Betrayals
It’s counterintuitive but true: In today’s economy, short-story collections sell far fewer copies than novels. Perhaps this partly explains the emergence of publishing’s newest [...] Full Story -
Border Teens
The larger publishing industry is crumbling, but “young adult” fiction appears to be holding steady, even growing. As someone who as a child read [...] Full Story
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