Black-Eyed Susans: Murder by Flowers
You can’t write a suspense novel with a female protagonist these days without being compared to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins’ The...
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...
Buzzkill: Up, Up, and Away
There have been as many takes on the superhero genre as there are members of the X-Men. The artform has been deconstructed, reconstructed, and...
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,...
Personal Jesus
The Oscar-nominated 2006 film Jesus Camp may have been a documentary, but it played more like a horror movie to non-religious people and to...
Don’t Go to Hell House
Discussing religion in an entertaining way is a difficult enterprise, and doing so memorably is next to impossible. Local writers Chad Feehan and Ryan...
Let the Sunshine In
Before there was Wendy Davis, there was Ann Richards. With her political savvy, big smart mouth, and, yes, her trademark “closer to God” silver...
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...
Fort Worth in Black & White
Over the decades, Richard Selcer has focused largely on local sagas, such as the rise and fall of Hell’s Half Acre and the lives...
Snake on a Train
Local fans of the late suspense writer Patricia Highsmith should probably forgive the fact that the author hated her native Fort Worth. The list...
