Mary Helen Specht

Mary Helen Specht is the author of Migratory Animals and teaches creative writing at St. Edward’s University in Austin.

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‘Presidio’ is a Beautiful, Atmospheric Texas Novel that Doesn’t Cohere

by | Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:32 pm CST
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‘Driven’ is an Edgy Memoir of Cars, Crises and Coming of Age

Melissa Stephenson’s new book exploits the bread and butter of memoir — parsing childhood experiences and complicated family dynamics — but also explores more experimental terrain.
Mon, Jun 11, 2018 |

In the crowded field of memoir, it’s the elevator pitch that sells copies, and this book certainly has one: a brother’s tragic suicide nestled within a narrative structured around the idiosyncratic vehicles the narrator drives on her journey through grief … Read More

Woody Guthrie
Culture

Woody Lived Here Too

Thu, Oct 3, 2013 |

Woody Guthrie's House of Earth reminds us of the hardships people endured to make this state what it is, and of the populist roots that run through our past, whether chambers of commerce deign to recognize them or not. Read More

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