Steven G. Kellman

  • 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

  • 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