Steven G. Kellman
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What’s Left of Texas
To anyone unfamiliar with the Observer, “Texas Left” might seem an oxymoron, or some grotesque creature hunted to near-extinction in the Piney Woods. Was [...] Full Story -
Bush’s Fist
One of Karl Rove’s most vivid memories is of how, in 1960, when he was 9, he cruised his Nevada neighborhood with a Nixon [...] Full Story -
Star Power
Though her husband, Melvyn Douglas, appeared in more than a hundred movies, earning two Oscars, and though she was one of the most popular [...] Full Story -
Lucky Star
By his own account, Larry McMurtry is a lucky hack. Though he is one of only three Texans to have won the Pulitzer Prize [...] Full Story -
The Fighting Owls
Though the opening scene of Emily Fox Gordon’s debut novel is set in Nirvana, its protagonist has attained nothing like serenity. Nirvana is the [...] Full Story
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A Nuclear Family Comes Apart
The toxic radiation emitted by the Hardings of Houston comes from the fission of a nuclear family. The fission also accounts for the power [...] Full Story -
The Novel is Dead, Long Live the Novel
The novel springs from a sense of its own obsolescence. Novels were already passé in the 17th century, when Miguel de Cervantes dispatched Don [...] Full Story -
The Apprentice
Mentor opens with what Hollywood folk call a “meet-cute” scene. While waiting tables at Louie’s Backyard in Key West, Tom Grimes is hungry for [...] Full Story -
Motherless Texas
Except for its setting in rural Lavaca County, roughly midway between Houston and San Antonio, the opening chapter of The Wake of Forgiveness might [...] Full Story -
Cabin Fever
Lost Books of Texas In 1844, when the Boston Daily Advertiser proclaimed Charles Sealsfield “the greatest American author,” the competition was sparse. Even so, [...] Full Story
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