Joe William Holley

Conversations with Texas Writers (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback))

Larry McMurtry declares, "Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did." Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, "I've just never had a desire to write about any place else." In between those figurative bookends are hundreds of other writers—some internationally recognized,...

Pickers and Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas (John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas)

Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an ...

Slingin' Sam: The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game

Dan Jenkins calls him "the greatest quarterback who ever lived, college or pro." Slingin' Sammy Baugh, who played for TCU and the Washington Redskins, single-handedly revolutionized the game of football. While the pros still wore leather helmets and played the game more like rugby, Baugh's ability t...

The Purse Bearer: A Novel of Love, Lust and Texas Politics

This novel explores the underbelly of the almost always politically incorrect world of politics and campaigning in Texas in the 1980s. Rose Marie “Red” Ryder made a name for herself by becoming the first female state comptroller of Texas and she is now running to become the first woman U.S. senator ...

The Boy Named Last

Fantasy

Quotable Texas

Every Texan has an opinion. And everyone else has an opinion about Texas. Quotable Texas is where these two factions meet to form a rich repository of the piquant thoughts, curious notions, and memorable ideas that have been expressed about Texas through the years.Texans are people of the word writt...

Hometown Texas

Brown

Conversations With Texas Writers

Conversations With Texas Writers

My Mother's Keeper: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up in the Shadow of Schizophrenia

My Mother's Keeper: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up in the Shadow of Schizophrenia