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One Day in Dallasnew
Adam Braver’s book deserves to be known; it ranks first among novels focused on the death of JFK.
The Texas Observer |
Don Graham |
03-12-2009 |
Fiction
Jonathan Miles' Epistolary Debut Gets Buried Under the Weight of its Own Baggagenew
Ultimately, Dear American Airlines is only as redeemable as its protagonist, which is to say, not very.
The Texas Observer |
Emily DePrang |
07-24-2008 |
Fiction
'World Made By Hand' Conveys Post-Oil Society Through Richly Descriptive Narrativenew
While no doubt many consider him a doomsayer or a kook, Kunstler has become a go-to guest lecturer on topics ranging from architecture to urban planning to peak oil -- and now he's translated ideas in his nonfiction writing into a novel.
The Texas Observer |
C.B. Evans |
05-07-2008 |
Fiction
'A Person of Interest' is Hypnotically Absorbingnew
While Susan Choi's new novel is clearly, in part, a fictionalized account of the Theodore Kaczynski bombings, the plot's trajectory also resonates in our post-9/11 world.
The Texas Observer |
Azita Osanloo |
04-23-2008 |
Fiction
A Good Place to Shed Your Culturenew
Believe me when I say Christensen isn't your garden-variety travel writer-memoirist. Strangers in Paradise isn't your garden-variety travel book-memoir, either.
The Texas Observer |
Josh Rosenblatt |
01-29-2008 |
Fiction
'The Flowers': Leaves of Sassnew
A story "that didn't have nothing to do with people or places you've ever seen," the book also lifts its seasoned author to another place in the literary order.
The Texas Observer |
Steven G. Kellman |
01-14-2008 |
Fiction
Survival Among the Ruinsnew
Jim Crace's The Pesthouse and Cormac McCarthy's The Road both look at a blistered, disintegrating, post-nuclear-war America.
The Texas Observer |
Paul Christensen |
07-16-2007 |
Fiction
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