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Eye On Texas: Michael O’Brien Collects the Faces of Texas
by Michael O'Brien / Posted on | 1 CommentMichael O’Brien’s photography in “The Face of Texas” celebrates the spirit and individuality of the state with a human mosaic.
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Read full postThis year’s Texas Book Festival will host the largest lineup in the festival’s storied 19 year history.
Read full postExcept in households steeped in African-American history, William Wells Brown is not a household name. Ezra Greenspan hopes to change that with a new biography.
Read full postThere must be a million ways to approach the 2014 Texas Book Festival. Here are the authors and events that struck our fancy.
Read full postJeff Danziger’s The Conscience of a Cartoonist is politically spot-on and beautifully rendered, offering a fascinating peek behind the drawing board.
Read full postRemember Me Like This is a stereotypical young literary author’s debut novel. It comes heavily hyped and praised, features beautiful prose and almost no plot, flirts with the trappings of a genre novel but dares not dirty its hands with the actual workings of one, and generally disappoints.
Read full postWhen the estimated mob of 40,000 descends on the Texas statehouse this weekend for the Texas Book Festival, five of the state’s independent publishers hope at least a few members of the crowd will be there to hear their authors speak. After all, how often does an independent press in Texas get a chance to reach 40,000 potential readers?
Read full postAs Doug J. Swanson’s exhaustively researched and artfully written account demonstrates beyond all doubt, they don’t make ’em like Benny Binion anymore.
Read full postThe 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.
Read full postA Tightly Raveled Mind is suitable for fans of mystery novels and psychological thrillers, as well as any reader who enjoys potshots aimed at uppity Texans.
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