Bad Dad?
Bad dad? Naaah. Frustrated dad? Angry dad? “I’m gonna teach this smart-mouth kid a lesson” dad? Oh, yes. Anyone who’s ever raised a child...
Twentieth-Century Women
While the title of Julie Kibler’s historical fiction novel Home for Erring and Outcast Girls doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, it’s at least...
Bayou Self
If you read this debut biography of Fort Worth native Townes Van Zandt — and you need to — the author wants you to...
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...
The Street: Hard Hitting
There’s absolutely nothing glamorous or sexy about documenting homelessness, and that’s the point of B.J. Lacasse’s new book, The Street: A Journey into Homelessness.
The...
Universal Hope
As a genre, gay fiction came into its own in the late ’80s/early 1990s, but the coming-out party felt more like a wake. The...
Vampires in Ghost Town
The undead, especially vampires, have become superstars in the fiction sections of bookstores in recent years. Anne Rice may have ushered in the era,...
Posse Prose
A baker’s dozen of Texas writers have set egos — and some might say common sense — aside to write a collaborative novel (which...
Black Dawn Fades
At a time when vampires have become their own little entertainment industry, paranormal creators have to work hard to distinguish their work from all...
Plain-spoken
There are a lot of hard-knock stories that follow a character from the bottom of society's barrel to a better life full of clean...
