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King for a Day
- Investigative journalist Steve McVicker remembers his longtime friend, acclaimed and troubled independent filmmaker Eagle Pennell, who lived on and off the streets for the last years of his life. McVicker blends his memories with musings on The King of Texas, a recent documentary that records the poignant story of Pennell’s brilliant but largely wasted life.
- by Steve McVicker
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Politics & Prose with Elizabeth Hailey
- Robert Leleux discusses his recent conversation with Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of the trailblazing A Woman of Independent Means. Hailey reveals that she’s recently devoted herself to anti-war work, declaring, “Like a lot of women my age, I missed the ’60s because I was at home raising my daughters. But now that I’m in my 60s, I’m ready for the front lines.”
- by Robert Leleux
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Remembering Joe
- Michael Erard remembers a remarkable rambler and autodidact who made his way in his old age to the Cozy Courts cottages in Alpine, TX.
- by Michael Erard
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Deep in My Heart in Texas
- After traveling from his home in Montana to help rebuild Louisiana, Fredric Alan Maxwell suffered a series of heart attacks. He received adequate hospital treatment, but when he was literally dumped on the street afterward, he began a highly personal study of the seriously broken Veterans Affairs Gulf Coast Health Care System.
- by Fredric Alan Maxwell
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The ACLU in Texas–The Early Years
- On March 8, the Texas ACLU will celebrate its 70th anniversary. It’s a storied history full of setbacks and improbable victories. Today, the organization is as strong as it has ever been.
- by David Richards
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The Big Empty
- In Clarksville, the seat of Red River County, 2008 arrived trailing a sense of doom. On December 31, 2007, after some 30 years of business, the local Wal-Mart had closed its doors, resulting in the loss of 68 jobs and causing an uproar among many Clarksville residents, who didn’t want Wal-Mart to go. Essay by C.B. Evans.
- by C.B. Evans
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Deathless Prose
- In 2043, Texas literature is much the same as ever. Don Graham looks to the future and finds a familiar cast of characters — Larry McMurtry, John Graves, Dagoberto Gilb and others — living on and putting words to paper with robotic stamina.
- by Don Graham
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Sledding Through a Bush Family Fantasy
- Since the Bush family home in Midland, Texas, opened to the public in April 2006, the house has attracted thousands of visitors from 33 countries and 48 states. The plain frame house, built in 1939, has been restored to a painstaking recreation of a 1950s-era family home, a carefully airbrushed paean to a simpler time.
- by Ruth Pennebaker
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Alive and Singing the Truth
- On June 20, 1968, Willie Nelson wrote one of the greatest poems in the long and
sorrowful history of war literature. His song poem is called “Jimmy’s
Road.” Willie would call it a peace poem. While it wasn’t originally
a huge success, “Jimmy’s Road” now has a second life and Willie’s
movement for peace has a much broader audience.
- by Thomas Palaima
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Everywhere Else, It's Called Football
- David Theis loves soccer. It never really made sense to him until one day in a sports bar when it all clicked for him: the drama, physical grace, and international rivalry of the world’s favorite sport.
- by David Theis
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- The Third-Party Dynamic
- by Dave Denison
- Citizen Critics
- by Michael Erard
- The Hummingbird's Great-Great Nephew
- by Gregg Barrios
- Held Hostage by the Past
- by Diana Anhalt
- Ay, Mamacita!
- by Jesse Lichtenstein
- Desert Vision
- by James Hoggard
- Muddy Waters
- by James E. McWilliams
- Race to the Bottom
- by Michael King
- A History Long and Rich
- by Russell Contreras
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