Amy Gentry

Most Recent in Politics:

1Destruction of Lizard’s West Texas Habitat 10 Times Worse Than Previously Thought

2Where do Texas Democrats Stand on Single-Payer Health Care?

3State Plans to Restore Services after Advocates in Wheelchairs Surprise Officials

4Trump Nominee to FEC Tried to Shred Texas’ Already-Weak Ethics Laws

5Religious Right Takes Bathroom Fight Back to Schools after Defeat at Capitol

6Supreme Court Decision Means 2018 Elections Could Use ‘Discriminatory’ Maps

Most Recent in Environment:

1Destruction of Lizard’s West Texas Habitat 10 Times Worse Than Previously Thought

2Reports of Livestock Deaths, Other Ag Losses Trickle in After Harvey

3Flood Expert Jim Blackburn: Houston Must Plan or Perish

4Experts: Much of Harvey-Related Air Pollution was Preventable

5‘Look & See’ Is a Love Letter to Family Farming, Rural America and Wendell Berry

6The Impossible City

Most Recent in Border:

1Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court

2ICE Detained This Trafficking Victim on Her 18th Birthday. Why?

3‘Los Zetas Inc.’ Author on Why Mexico’s Drug War Isn’t About Drugs

5Salvadoran Man Seeks ‘Sanctuary’ from Deportation in Austin Church

6Judge Eviscerates Much of Senate Bill 4, but Leaves Intact “Show Me Your Papers” Provision

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Body Cam Policies in Texas Exacerbate a System Designed to Protect Police, Critics Say

2Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court

3ICE Detained This Trafficking Victim on Her 18th Birthday. Why?

4The Road to Huntsville

5In San Antonio, Cops Punch Down

6Deputies Go Unpunished for Invasive Cavity Search on Houston Roadside

Most Recent in Education:

1Despite ‘Hardship’ Funding, Rural Texas Schools Face Difficult Financial Future

2Loon Star State: Texas Public Schools

3Dan Patrick Accuses Joe Straus of Ponzi Scheme Ahead of Special Session

4Critics Fear New Texas Law Giving SBOE Wide Discretion Over Textbooks

5After Freedom Caucus Kills Her Legislation, Lawmaker Announces Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Campaign

6Texas’ ‘Lunch Shaming’ Problem and the Fight to Fix It

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Where do Texas Democrats Stand on Single-Payer Health Care?

2State Plans to Restore Services after Advocates in Wheelchairs Surprise Officials

3Judge Temporarily Halts New Texas Abortion Ban

4Despite Self-Congratulation, Lawmakers Did Virtually Nothing about Maternal Mortality Crisis

5Introducing the Texas Observer’s Rural Reporting Project

6Red is the New Orange: Handmaids Bring More than Just Silence to the Abortion Fight

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

2The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

3The Interview: Tom ‘Smitty’ Smith

4The Interview: Lupe Valdez

5The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

6The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

Most Recent in Books:

1Short Story Contest Finalist: ‘A Thunder Note in an Angry Sky’

2Short Story Contest Finalist: ‘Malena’

3The King of Pulp

4‘Sip’ Seeks Dystopian Depth, and Fine Dining, in the Shadows

5The Rising Storm

6Stalking Horse

Most Recent in Postcards:

1The King of Pulp

2Ride Like a Girl

Most Recent in Essay:

1The Impossible City

2Dear Governor Abbott: The ‘Bathroom Bill’ Endangers Trans Texans Like My Son

3Stalking Horse

4Protecting Immigrant Families: A Call for an Economic Boycott of Texas

5Cut from the Same Cloth: Wearing Hijab in Houston, Post-Trump

6Going It Alone

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

2Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

3Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

4Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

5Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

6Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Parallel Planes

3Poem: ‘Resistance’

4Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

5Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

6Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

Amy Gentry

Amy Gentry reviews fiction regularly for the Chicago Tribune, and her work can be found in Salon, Austin Chronicle and other venues.

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Stories

‘The Hundred Year Flood,’ A Search for Self in Prague

by Amy Gentry | Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 9:24 am CST

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Books

Texas’ Strangest Son: The Exile and Creativity of William Goyen

A new book explores the unconventional life of a writers' writer.

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Tue, Oct 13, 2015 |

Clark Davis is a strong, clear-eyed biographer and an engaging writer, and It Starts with Trouble will do its job of drawing critical attention back to one of the strangest of Texas’ native sons. Read More

Books

The Book Report: Redefining “Her Texas”

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Wed, Jul 22, 2015 |

A new anthology, “Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem & Song,” offers a multiethnic and multidisciplinary snapshot of creative women in contemporary Texas. Read More

Everyone Says That at the End of the World

Books

Book Review: Counting Down the Days

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Tue, May 28, 2013 |

The second biggest surprise in Owen Egerton's new book is that during the apocalypse, an army of nutria will rise from Lady Bird Lake and kill us all. Read More

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