Monkey Wrench
Sometimes you read books that are powerful and evocative in a way you don’t see coming. Stuff that shakes you awake, challenges you, and...
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...
Poolside Page-Turners
Since 1947, TCU Press has filled an important niche in the literary world by commissioning and publishing books that the large houses may not...
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...
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....
Hullabaloo
If you’ve picked up a catalog from Texas A&M Press lately, you’ve no doubt noticed all of the battleships and generals and wars. If...
Bayou Self
If you read this debut biography of Fort Worth native Townes Van Zandt — and you need to — the author wants you to...
Diverse, Death
I have lived on the Central Texas coast my entire life, and the horrors here are endless. From sightings of the infamous chupacabra to...
Reconciling the Past
Though the TCU administration embraces diversity, the student population remains predominantly white — 65%, to be precise. School leaders have taken steps in recent years...
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...
