Category: SGJ

instead of thumbnails, which would be prettier, just some links, bullet-style, cause I’ve got no time here:

• Austin Statesman
• Reader (I think this is the one with the title I dig)
• NYT [1]
• NYT [2]
• Houston Chronicle
• Austin Chronicle, 4 parts: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4

Early, scary stuff here. All of it right about fifteen years old. Not sure how I ever learned to write, really. Just that I had to. Included: “The Parrot Man,” which has a scene in it I’ve still yet to stop trying to tell; “West Texas Dirt,” which got me my first-ever fiction award, and $150; “Breakfast for Two,” which maybe had potential; then the first story I ever turned in for workshop, “Whiter Shade of Pale.” back w…

So, yeah, I’m on a desert island, can only have ten books. A strange, impractical set-up—that the dungeon master here can assume I’d grab a round number of books instead of a two-way radio or a knife—but so be it. I’m there. I can only have ten books. Which is a lot like punishment, but, too, is a lot better than just nine books. Here goes:

1.Don Quixote. Not because it’s a classic and not because it’s on the required reading lists and not because it was the first real no…

• first Texas Monthly interview
• second Texas Monthly interview
• Hub Stuff Interview
• Lubbock newspaper interview