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...
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...
Fear and Loathing of Big D
Fort Worthians who've followed the longtime rivalry between Cowtown and Dallas will get a shot of schadenfreude from The Dallas Myth: The Making and...
A Tragedy of Errors
Darlie Routier. If you remember her at all, you’re probably seeing the same mental image that most of us have: a young, attractive blonde...
Bayou Self
If you read this debut biography of Fort Worth native Townes Van Zandt — and you need to — the author wants you to...
The Booze Book
Book lovers know the dilemma: Should their next selection be educational or entertaining?
With Rita Cook and Jeffrey Yarbrough’s new tome, they don’t have to...
Benny and the Bad Boys
Doug J. Swanson’s new book is laugh-out-loud funny — odd, since it’s about a semi-illiterate gangster who left a trail of dead bodies from...
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...
Good Twig Bunting
Author and former major league baseball pitcher Jim Bouton once wrote that statistics are “about as interesting as first-base coaches.” He has a point....
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...
