Michael Schaub

Michael Schaub is a regular contributor to NPR and the Los Angeles Times. He was born and raised in San Antonio and now lives in Austin.

A New Short-Story Collection Imagines a Texas Town’s Secession

With shades of George Saunders, Why Visit America manages to be both fun and socially perceptive.

Edmund White chronicles the coming-of-age stories of two Texas sisters in a vivid new novel.

Deb Olin Unferth’s darkly comic novel imagines a chicken heist gone wrong—and takes on the factory farming industry.

Set in a creepier version of North Texas, Shaun Hamill's debut novel is equal parts beautiful and terrifying.

Fernando A. Flores’ debut novel paints a vivid, if cynical, portrait of life on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Hall paints a portrait of Oppenheimer through refraction, resulting in a novel that captures his life fully, but indirectly.