Mike Shea
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San Antonio's Marshevet Hooker is not just any old high school sprinter; she's an Olympic gold medalist in the making. Meet her and nine other women we're betting will lead the new Texas—and the world. (February 2003)
Columns | Miscellany
Killing Time
Stephen Graham Jones's All the Beautiful Sinners is a wild-eyed thriller; Amanda Eyre Ward's Sleep Toward Heaven is a tale of grief, forgiveness, and the death penalty. (August 2003)
July, July
Novels about college classmates reconnecting and rekindling at reunion time are nothing new, but Tim O'Brien's July, July succeeds with honors. (October 2002)
The Buzz
Kathy Hepinstall is one of four underappreciated Texas writers you should be reading this summer. (August 2002)
Hook Man Speaks
When Matt Clark succumbed to cancer in 1998, the young writer left behind an inventive unpublished novel called Hook Man Speaks. Then his friends stepped in-and brought the book back from the dead. (March 2002)
The Plot Sickens
Sandra Brown's latest novel-and her umpteenth best-seller-is called Envy. Funny, that's the last feeling I get when I read her work. (November 2001)
West Meets East
In Sarah Bird's finest novel to date, she goes halfway around the world for down-home inspiration. (June 2001)
Sci-fi Fo Fum
Texas is filled with giants in the science-fiction field these days, but none loom larger than Bruce Sterling and Michael Moorcock. (July 1998)
Vernon God Little
(November 2003)
The King Is Dead
(November 2003)
By Sorrow's River
(November 2003)
Two for Tee
Mike Shea links Bud Shrake and Dan Jenkins. (August 2001)
A Grand Guy: The Art and Life of Terry Southern
Mike Shea on the new Terry Southern bio. (April 2001)
Flight: A Novel Of Suspense
(March 2001)
The Lecturer's Tale
(February 2001)
Flag Burning and Free Speech: The Case of Texas v. Johnson
(January 2001)
First and Last Seasons
(December 2000)
Boone's Lick
(November 2000)
Zeitgeist: A Novel of Metamorphosis
(November 2000)
Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Era
(October 2000)
House of Corrections
(September 2000)
Purple Cane Road
(September 2000)
Royal and Ancient: Blood, Sweat, and Fear at the British Open
(August 2000)
Dead Man's Bay: A Case for Barrett Raines
(August 2000)
The Special Prisoner
(July 2000)
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
(July 2000)
Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
(May 2000)
Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly
(May 2000)
Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax
(May 2000)
The Life and Legend of Leadbelly
(May 2000)
Texas Music
(May 2000)
Texan Jazz
(May 2000)
God's Favorite: A Novel
(April 2000)
Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
(April 2000)
Interstate Dreams
(March 2000)
AfterImage
(March 2000)
Chill Factor
(February 2000)
If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates
(February 2000)
Gypsy Songman
(January 2000)
One Day's Perfect Weather
(January 2000)
The Last King of Texas
(January 2000)
Reporter
Jeff Guinn
(December 2008)
The Messenger
(December 2008)
The Glen Rock Book of the Dead
(November 2008)
Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound
(November 2008)
The Theory of Light and Matter
(November 2008)
H. W. Brands
(November 2008)
Nine Kinds of Naked
(October 2008)
Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus
(October 2008)
The Whiskey Rebels
(October 2008)
Darlene Harbour Unrue
(October 2008)
Bob Schieffer’s America
(September 2008)
The Heretic’s Daughter
(September 2008)
American Wife
(September 2008)
Leather Maiden
(August 2008)
Why I Came West
(August 2008)
Nick Flynn
(August 2008)
Alive in Necropolis
(July 2008)
Books: A Memoir
(July 2008)
Golden Bones
(July 2008)
How Perfect Is That
(June 2008)
The Franchise Babe
(June 2008)
Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
(June 2008)
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
(June 2008)
The Triumph of Caesar
(May 2008)
Holy Moly
(May 2008)
The Big Sort
(May 2008)
Willie Nelson: An Epic Life
(April 2008)
The Story of Forgetting
(April 2008)
The Palace of Illusions
(April 2008)
Mudbound
(March 2008)
Names on a Map
(March 2008)
The Flowers
(March 2008)
Echo
(March 2008)
Bruce Sterling
(February 2008)
How Can I Talk If My Lips Don’t Move?
(January 2008)
The Memoirs Of A Beautiful Boy
(January 2008)
The Pulpwood Queens’ Guide To Life
(January 2008)
Legacy of the Force: Fury
(December 2007)
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
(December 2007)
A Land So Strange
(December 2007)
Custer’s Brother’s Horse
(November 2007)
Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, the Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound
(November 2007)
Lone Star Sleuths: An Anthology of Texas Crime Fiction
(November 2007)
The Last Jew Standing
(October 2007)
The Tecate Journals
(October 2007)
Eureka
(October 2007)
Clayton Williams
(October 2007)
Follow the Money: How George W. Bush and the Texas Republicans Hog-Tied America
(September 2007)
Tree of Smoke
(September 2007)
2012: The War for Souls
(September 2007)
What Gives
(August 2007)
Um…Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean.
(August 2007)
SERIAL THRILLERS: Our PIs return.
(August 2007)
Pepperfish Keys
(July 2007)
Evacuation Plan: A Novel From the Hospice
(July 2007)
Heartbreak Town
(July 2007)
Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out
(July 2007)
Forgive Me
(June 2007)
This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood
(June 2007)
The Beautiful Miscellaneous
(June 2007)
The Lightning Thief
(June 2007)
The Virgin’s Guide to Mexico
(May 2007)
Stormy Weather
(May 2007)
Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer
(May 2007)
The Men’s Guide to the Women’s Bathroom
(April 2007)
The King of Colored Town
(April 2007)
Mars Needs Moms!
(April 2007)
When the Light Goes
(March 2007)
To Live’s to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt
(March 2007)
Roma
(March 2007)
Chasing Justice
(February 2007)
Lost Echoes
(February 2007)
Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track
(February 2007)
The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
(February 2007)
Murder Among the OWLS: A Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery
(January 2007)
Sunset Limited
(January 2007)
Alternadad
(January 2007)
If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways
(January 2007)
La Vida Brinca
(December 2006)
Between Heaven and Texas
(December 2006)
Weeping Mary
(December 2006)
The Amazing Faith of Texas, Common Ground on Higher Ground
(December 2006)
The Long Night of Winchell Dear
(November 2006)
In a Special Light
(November 2006)
The Lives of Rocks
(November 2006)
The Book of the SubGenius : The Sacred Teachings of J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs
(November 2006)
Goodnight, Texas
(October 2006)
The Road
(October 2006)
GIMP: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand, You Can Fold-or You Can Play
(October 2006)
Dark Angels
(September 2006)
The History Of Swimming
(September 2006)
Uncivilized Beasts & Shameless Hellions
(September 2006)
Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather
(September 2006)
Tehano
(August 2006)
Fear
(August 2006)
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
(August 2006)
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
(August 2006)
The President’s Counselor: The Rise To Power Of Alberto Gonzales.
(July 2006)
The Next Time You Die
(July 2006)
The Worthy: A Ghost’s Story
(July 2006)
Pegasus Descending
(July 2006)
Telegraph Days
(June 2006)
The Vinegaroon Murders
(June 2006)
The Flamenco Academy
(June 2006)
I Had the Right to Remain Silent… But I Didn't Have the Ability
(June 2006)
Standing Eight
(May 2006)
Riley’s Fire
(May 2006)
Riding with John Wayne
(May 2006)
The Unexpectedly Bad Hair of Barcelona Smith
(May 2006)
Bleeding Hearts
(April 2006)
Demon Theory
(April 2006)
Challenger Park
(April 2006)
Come Together, Fall Apart.
(April 2006)
Are You Happy?
(March 2006)
Sinners Welcome
(March 2006)
Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes
(March 2006)
A Strong West Wind
(February 2006)
The Secret Sisters
(February 2006)
The Night Journal
(February 2006)
Glory Road
(January 2006)
Dog Days
(January 2006)
The Worst Hard Time
(January 2006)
Havoc
(December 2005)
Ringside Seat to a Revolution
(December 2005)
Against Gravity
(December 2005)
Six Bits a Day
(November 2005)
Under the Wire
(November 2005)
Dermaphoria
(November 2005)
The Color of Law
(October 2005)
Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
(October 2005)
Waterloo
(October 2005)
Panic
(September 2005)
Where Dreams Die Hard: A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team
(September 2005)
Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth
(September 2005)
In Perfect Light
(August 2005)
The Rogues’ Game
(August 2005)
Body Scissors
(August 2005)
Mission Road
(July 2005)
No Country for Old Men
(July 2005)
Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of)
(July 2005)
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
(June 2005)
Bitter Milk
(June 2005)
36 Yalta Boulevard
(June 2005)
Chasing the Rodeo
(May 2005)
Still River
(May 2005)
The Diezmo
(May 2005)
Dishing
(April 2005)
Towelhead
(April 2005)
A Slight Trick of the Mind
(April 2005)
Honky Tonk Hero
(March 2005)
Ten Little New Yorkers
(March 2005)
America’s Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O’Hair
(March 2005)
The White League
(February 2005)
As Hot As It Was You Ought To Thank Me
(February 2005)
One Ranger
(February 2005)
The Language of the Sycamores
(January 2005)
Judgement Days
(January 2005)
Bloodlines
(January 2005)
Freaks & Fire: The Underground Reinvention Of Circus
(December 2004)
Loop Group
(December 2004)
The Captured (A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier)
(November 2004)
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
(November 2004)
In a Dark House
(October 2004)
Fifty Years of the Texas Observer
(October 2004)
Scared Money
(October 2004)
Wanted
(September 2004)
On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth With the Peregrine Falcon
(September 2004)
Flat Crazy
(September 2004)
Dirty Sally
(August 2004)
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
(August 2004)
Rift
(August 2004)
Corpus Christi
(July 2004)
Perfect Circle
(July 2004)
Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartbreak in the American Elswhere
(July 2004)
Never the Same Again (A Rock'n'Roll Gothic)
(June 2004)
Cronies
(June 2004)
Dancing with Lyndon
(June 2004)
A Hole in Texas
(May 2004)
Kings of Infinite Space
(May 2004)
The Full Matilda
(May 2004)
The Floodmakers
(March 2004)
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
(March 2004)
Sunset and Sawdust
(March 2004)
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
(January 2004)
Cut and Run
(January 2004)
Handsome Harry
(January 2004)
The Coffee Trader
(June 2003)
Cold Springs
(June 2003)
Grito
(June 2003)
Shutdown
(June 2000)
Galveston
(June 2000)
Shock Star
Fort Worth officers and teachers get to know Marilyn Manson. (February 1999)
Web extras
Jeff Guinn
An extended interview with Jef Guinn, author of The Christmas Chronichles. (December 2008)
H. W. Brands
(November 2008)
Darlene Harbour Unrue
An extended interview with Darlene Unrue. (October 2008)
Curtis Sittenfeld
(September 2008)
Nick Flynn
The new play from the author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. (August 2008)
Sichan Siv Interview
(July 2008)
Sam Gosling
(June 2008)
Bill Bishop
(May 2008)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
(April 2008)
Interview with Terry Moore
(March 2008)
Kathy L. Patrick
An extended interview with Kathy Patrick. (January 2008)
Aaron Allston
The Round Rock author and former video game designer has just penned his ninth Star Wars serialization, Legacy of the Force: Fury. (December 2007)
Bill Cunningham
Inspired by the popularity of a panel on Texas crime literature hosted by the Southwestern Writers Collection in 2004, editors Bill Cunningham, Steven L. Davis, and Rollo K. Newsom have compiled Lone Star Sleuths: An Anthology of Texas Crime Fiction, with thirty excerpts from the likes of Rick Riordan, David Lindsey, Mary Willis Walker, and Joe R. Lansdale. (November 2007)
Douglass St. Clair Smith
The SubGenius Psychlopaedia or Slack: The Bobliographon is—how to put this—the most unusual text most folk will ever encounter. (November 2006)
Is This Seat Taken? (Mon Dec 1 at 6:45 PM)
The Hill Without Hills (Mon Dec 1 at 6:12 PM)
Rick Riordan on Texas Monthly Talks (Mon Dec 1 at 6:43 PM)
