Brad Tyer
Houston native, 7th-generation Texan and Rice University graduate Brad Tyer has contributed to the Observer under five editors since the mid-1990s, including stints as freelance critic, contributing writer, interim editor, and two rounds as managing editor, from early 2008 to late 2009 and late 2012 to present. In the interim he's served as the Observer's long-distance copy editor. A former staffer at the Houston Press, former editor of the Missoula, Montana Independent , and widely published freelance (High Country News, New York Times Book Review, Public News, Texas Monthly, The Drake, Thora-Zine, etc.), Brad has been awarded a 2010 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan, a 2011 Fishtrap Writing Residency, and a 2011 grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to support research for his first book, Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape, published by Beacon Press in 2013. Brad oversees the Observer's cultural coverage.
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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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Former Observer Managing Editor Chris Tomlinson Introduces Tomlinson Hill
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name—One White, One Black (St. Martin's Press) has been getting warm notices from Texas Monthly to NPR. Full Story -
Bill Minutaglio Hands ‘State of the Media’ Over to Andrea Grimes
When we began reinventing the then-biweekly newsprint Texas Observer in 2010 as a glossy-paged monthly magazine, a passel of new columnists was core to […] Full Story -
It’s Story Time! — Texas Observer Short Story Contest Open for Entries
Elizabeth McCracken will judge the 2014 Texas Observer short story contest. Full Story -
Go Ask Alice—Observer Contributor Jennifer Mathieu Debuts New Novel
We don’t cover an awful lot of Young Adult literature here at the Observer, premature fogeys that (some of us) are, but when we […] Full Story -
Fernando Flores’ Punk Rock Fairy Tales Get an Austin Reading
Fernando A. Flores’ Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas, Vol. 1 chronicles a Rio Grande Valley that’s never been known as a […] 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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