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...
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...
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...
Rooting for Roots
What an odd book — fascinating at times yet frustrating in its lack of organization and purpose.
The title, True to the Roots: Americana...
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...
Water Marks
By his own admission, Chris Rose spent most of the last 10 years “reveling in the frivolity of the entertainment industry.” As a columnist...
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...
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...
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...
