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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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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