Documented Immigrants
by Emily DePrang / Posted on | No CommentsEarly this August, I took a Greyhound bus from Tucson to Houston and back. It was a 24-hour trip that impressed my middle-class family [...]
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Inside Amigoland
by Anis Shivani / Posted on | No CommentsOscar Casares’s short story collection Brownsville (Back Bay, 2003) was an instant hit with critics and readers, establishing Casares as a writer to watch. [...]
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by Bill Minutaglio / Posted on | No CommentsIn their new biography of Molly Ivins, Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith chronicle the personal and journalistic arc of Texas’ late, lamented tormentor [...]
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by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsRobert Hinkle’s career started in earnest in the spring of 1955, when the self-described “two-bit” actor from Brownfield, Texas, got a phone call from [...]
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by Kirk Forrester / Posted on | No CommentsIn the wake of 9/11, Johnny Rico left his job as a Colorado probation officer and enlisted with the U.S. Army. Soon he was [...]
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