Pancho and Lefty
Harold Eggers didn’t set out to know Townes Van Zandt to the core, but that’s what happened after 20 years spent crisscrossing the country...
Restaurant for the Mind Arrives
Looking back at all the shopping I’ve done in the past year alone, I can say most of it has been done online, usually...
We’re for Smoke
Though the title may conjure images of ’60s-era stoners a la Cheech and Chong, nothing could be further from the reality depicted in this...
Fall-Ball Reading this Summer
Admittedly, I’d be a terrible book club member. This is posited as a hypothetical because it would never happen. I don’t read long-form books...
Days of Shame
Nobody really knows why a group of white men went on a killing spree in the small East Texas town of Slocum in 1910....
My Thalia Pilgrimage
Toward the end of the last century, I was attending a Christmas party in the TCU area where a sprinkling of professor types were...
Road Killing It
Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 5 is an immersive, haunting collection of short stories that are as thought-provoking as they are frightening....
Blue Texas
In light of lessons learned this political season, armchair analysts are reminded that change is a process, not a final destination. When in Texas,...
Angels in the OR
In 1994, a car crash that should have killed Tricia Barker instead set her on a spiritual journey that has led to her teaching...
Spying Recluse
When I popped into Cowtown’s newest bookstore a few weeks back, I found a new refuge. A literary refuge.
Located at 465 S. Main St.,...
