Brad Tyer
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Seven Contemporary Mexican Artists Interpret the Unthinkable in “Crónicas”
"Crónicas: Seven Contemporary Mexican Artists," uniquely interprets the drug war in Mexico through the eyes of seven young Mexican artists and photographers. Full Story
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Author Reyna Grande on Immigration and Storytelling in San Antonio
Observer intern Elizabeth Stewart profiles The Distance Between Us author Reyna Grande in advance of Grande’s talk at UT-San Antonio tomorrow night. Read it in […] Full Story -
Searching for Home with Texas Ex-Pat Novelist Greg Baxter
Observer contributor Cecily Sailer reviews Greg Baxter’s new novel, The Apartment, and finds it “intricate and complex, both reportage and confession, littered with moments […] Full Story -
Poems Old and New from Texas Poet Laureate Rosemary Catacalos
2013 Texas Poet Laureate Rosemary Catacalos, a longtime San Antonio resident of Mexican and Greek heritage, makes frequent use of the Ariadne myth in […] Full Story -
Texas History Loses an Eminence
Texas historian T.R. Fehrenbach died on Sunday of a congenital heart condition. Full Story -
Texas Book Festival Responds to Latino Representation Op-Ed
Yesterday the Observer published San Antonio author Gregg Barrios' op-ed regarding Latino and Latina representation at this year's Texas Book Festival. TodayTBF Literary Director Steph Opitz provided the following response: Full Story
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Texas Book Festival 2014: The Observer Picks
There must be a million ways to approach the 2014 Texas Book Festival. Here are the authors and events that struck our fancy. Full Story -
New Biography Compiles the Legends of The Flatlanders
The triumvirate of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock is a singular musical entity. It’s also an acquired—if acclaimed—taste, and John T. Davis, one of the most well-seasoned of Texas-music scribes, doesn’t bother making too much of a case for the band’s undersung importance, neglected influence, or ill-acknowledged greatness. Full Story -
Untangling S., Doug Dorst’s Novel within a Novel
If the book you’ve invented has an invented book at its center, do you still have a book? Full Story -
Welcome to the Drone Star State
At Corpus Christi's celebration of the launch of a new drone industry, the word "drone" was conspicuously absent. Full Story -
Hip-Hop in H-Town
In "Houston Rap," Peter Beste and Lance Scott Walker document Houston's rap scene and the neighborhoods that cultivate it. Full Story
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