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...
Caine is Working Stiff
Earlier this year, the Weekly ran a cover story on Fort Worth-based urban fantasy novelist Rachel Caine, whose real name is Roxanne Longstreet Conrad....
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...
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...
Debating Texas Identity
With Rick Perry making his bid for the U.S. presidency, you can expect to hear in his rhetoric many familiar tropes of Texas identity,...
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...
Who Framed The Duke?
Political conspiracy theories in America have been around since the colonists fought loony old King George III for independence. Although both the conservative and...
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...
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...
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...
