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...
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...
Dark Ages
Local writer and retired journalist Phil Vinson has published his first work of fiction - and it's a good one, although I suspect it...
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...
High Score
Few people make it in the world of online comics. Few people probably even know that online comics exist.
But of the small number of...
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...
Larger than Life
Willie Nelson has been my hero since I was a teenager.
Throughout the 1970s, I went to about two dozen concerts, bought countless albums, and...
Love/Hate
Classic novels of homoerotic obsession — titles like Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, and, if you want to give it...
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...
