Steven G. Kellman
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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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Reflections of a Texas Emigr��_
When Rick Bass writes about living in the West, he does not mean the Lone Star State, disregarding the fact that when Hollywood has [...] Full Story -
Giving Peace a Chance
For their 1968 book The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant calculated that the world had been without war for only 268 of [...] Full Story -
Ranch Dressing
According to Jean Baudrillard (echoing Plato, who dismissed the world we inhabit through our senses as an unreal imitation), all is simulation. In the [...] Full Story -
Leaves of Sass
Though Sonny Bravo, the narrator of The Flowers, is 15, Dagoberto Gilb’s novel-his second, after The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña (1994)-is not [...] Full Story -
Studs on Studs
He is beloved “Uncle Studs” to many who grew up listening to WFMT, the Chicago radio station that broadcast his eclectic daily mix of [...] Full Story