Nuts
If the phrase "West Texas feminist" causes your eyebrows to raise, It's A Jungle Out There isn't your kind of book.
Don't be misled by...
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...
Fort Worth’s Rock Roots
In a recent story on DC9 at Night, the Dallas Observer’s music blog, several local media types, including this writer, were asked to assess...
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...
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...
**ONLINE EXCLUSIVE**
Back in the 1960s and 70s most people under 30 would have given their left nostril to be Chris O'Dell.
The Tucson native...
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...
The Twenty-Nine Bombs
Assailing the evils wrought by corporate greed and government cowardice is a noble — if not original — intent. But just as the protester...
A Million Little Peaces
Titled after his college nickname, Alex Lemon’s Happy is another in a slew of memoirs in the vein of Boy Meets Obstacle, Boy Overcomes...
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...
