Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University – serie
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Notes on Blood Meridian
Revised and Expanded Edition
Av John Sepich
Häftad, 2008
316 kr
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Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850, is widely considered to be one of the finest …
Turn Out the Lights
Chronicles of Texas During the 80s and 90s
Häftad, 2000
380 kr
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Whether the subject is Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, or his own leukemia-stricken son Mark, when it comes to looking at the world through another person's eyes, nobody does it better than Gary Cartwright. For over twenty-five years, readers of Texas Monthly have relied on Cartwright to tell the stories …
What Wildness Is This
Women Write About the Southwest
Av Susan Wittig Albert, Susan Hanson m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
321 kr
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Winner, WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2008How do women experience the vast, arid, rugged land of the American Southwest? The Story Circle Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women write about their lives, posed this question, and nearly three hundred women …
Lone Star Sleuths
An Anthology of Texas Crime Fiction
Av Bill Cunningham, Steven L. Davis m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
316 kr
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Texas has always staked a large claim on the nation's imagination, and its mystery literature is no exception. Hundreds of crime novels are set within the state, most of which have been published in the last twenty years. From the highest point atop the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas to the …
Sneaking Out
Häftad, 2002
232 kr
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From the endless battles of sibling rivalry to the endless worries about getting indifferent students into-and then graduated from-college, raising boys is the adventure of a lifetime for any mother. Prudence Mackintosh has not only survived the adventure but has also written about it with her …
Land of the Permanent Wave
An Edwin "Bud" Shrake Reader
Av Bud Shrake, Steven L. Davis
Häftad, 2008
413 kr
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Edwin "Bud" Shrake is one of the most intriguing literary talents to emerge from Texas. He has written vividly in fiction and nonfiction about everything from the early days of the Texas Republic to the making of the atomic bomb. His real gift has been to capture the Texas Zeitgeist. Legendary …
In Search of the Blues
A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas
Häftad, 2010
275 kr
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The rich, complex lives of African Americans in Texas were often neglected by the mainstream media, which historically seldom ventured into Houston's Fourth Ward, San Antonio's East Side, South Dallas, or the black neighborhoods in smaller cities. When Bill Minutaglio began writing for Texas …
John Graves Reader
Av John Graves
Häftad, 1996
445 kr
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Since the publication of his haunting, elegiac Goodbye to a River in 1960, John Graves has become one of Texas' most beloved writers, whose circle of loyal readers extends far beyond the borders of his home state. A "regional" writer only by virtue of his gift for vividly evoking the spirit of the …
Water and Light
A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef
Häftad, 1999
291 kr
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This evocative account of the months Stephen Harrigan spent diving on the coral reefs off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1992.
Just As We Were
A Narrow Slice of Texas Womanhood
Häftad, 1996
249 kr
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When a Texas debutante bows her forehead to the floor in the famous "Texas dip," society columnists all across the country speculate interminably over what it is that sets Texas women apart. But really, how could they know? Even women born and bred in Texas can't always answer that …
Cormac McCarthy's House
Reading McCarthy Without Walls
Av Peter Josyph
Inbunden, 2013
393 kr
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Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy’s House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy’s work, how it …
Thundering Sneakers
Häftad, 2002
232 kr
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Thundering Sneakers begins the story of the Mackintosh boys. In these essays, Prudence Mackintosh describes the delights and terrors of living with little boys who are determined to be boys, despite the carefully nonsexist childrearing practices of the 1970s. With telling vignettes of boyish …
Retreads
Häftad, 2002
232 kr
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Retreads tells the middle of the story begun in Thundering Sneakers and concluded in Sneaking Out. In this collection of essays, Prudence Mackintosh follows her sons through the "tween" years between little boyhood and adolescence. Vividly portraying the chaos that descends on a house full of …
Acting Up and Getting Down
Plays by African American Texans
Häftad, 2014
380 kr
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One of the few books of its kind, Acting Up and Getting Down brings together seven African American literary voices that all have a connection to the Lone Star state. Covering Texas themes and universal ones, this collection showcases often-overlooked literary talents to bring to life inspiring …
Two Prospectors
The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
Av Sam Shepard, Johnny Dark m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
232 kr
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Sam Shepard was arguably America’s finest working dramatist, as well as an accomplished screenwriter, actor, and director. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he wrote more than forty-five plays, including True West, Fool for Love, and Buried Child. Shepard also appeared in more than fifty films, beginning …
Ace Reid and the Cowpokes Cartoons
Av Ace Reid
Häftad, 1999
298 kr
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Winner, Mitchell A. Wilder Award for Publication Design, Texas Association of MuseumsFolks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A good-hearted guy, he's always up to his eyebrows in debt or drought or prickly pears looking for them dad-blamed ole wild cows. In fact, he's so real a fella that …
Homegrown
Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982
Av Joe Nick Patoski, Nels Jacobson m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
338 kr
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Before Austin became the “live music capital of the world” and attracted tens of thousands of music fans, it had a vibrant local music scene that spanned late sixties psychedelic and avant-garde rock to early eighties punk. Venues such as the Vulcan Gas Company and the Armadillo World Headquarters …
Winifred Sanford
The Life and Times of a Texas Writer
Häftad, 2023
318 kr
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Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short stories before slipping into relative obscurity. First championed by her mentor, H. L. Mencken, and published in his …
Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days
Inbunden, 2010
304 kr
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From Eudora Welty's memoir of childhood to May Sarton's reflections on her seventieth year, writers' journals offer an irresistible opportunity to join a creative thinker in musing on the events-whether in daily life or on a global scale-that shape our lives. In An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary …
Together, Alone
A Memoir of Marriage and Place
Häftad, 2009
229 kr
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What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this …
