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Alfredo Corchado Discusses Midnight in Mexico
Alfredo Corchado, Mexico City bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News, will be at Austin’s Book People on Wednesday at 7 PM to discuss his new book Midni...Read More
Mary Karr talks Diet Coke, DFW, and the Birth of Sparkle
Texas’ own Queen of the Memoir, Mary Karr, gives a salty interview to Salon‘s Nina Puro, wherein she disses Augusten Burroughs, dishes on David Fost...Read More
When is a Mural just a Billboard?
As a more-or-less-native Houstonian and longtime resident now removed from the city of bayous, I take a certain rubbernecking joy in watching my hometown’...Read More
Submit: 2013 Texas Observer Short Story Contest Now Open for Entries
2013 Texas Observer Short Story Contest now open for entries
When Larry McMurtry agreed in 2011 to guest-judge The Texas Observer’s first short story contest, we at the magazine were thrilled: what better name to attach...Read More
Winning Words
A few weeks ago we offered a roundup of Texas books recently nominated for or winning major awards. As literary awards season rolls on, we have a few notices ...Read More
Second Edition in San Antone
Saturday April 13 is a big day for books in Texas, as Austin’s long-running Texas Book Festival expands to San Antonio for a first-ever single-day event c...Read More
New and Noteworthy Books: March
Benjamin Alire Saenz’s story collection Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, published by El Paso’s Cinco Puntos Press, has won the 2013 PEN/Fau...Read More
Michelle Shocked Responds to Gay Marriage Rant Controversy
Texas songstress Michelle Shocked responds to her incoherent rant regarding gay marriage and California's Proposition 8, which would ban it. ...Read More
Robert Leleux on Lawrence Wright
As Wright is quick to point out, theology doesn’t have to make sense; there are aspects of any religion that can’t survive logical scrutiny. But even by tha...Read More