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Since publishing his first novel, in 1976, the prolific author has won five Spur Awards in the western genre and four Shamus Awards for his mysteries. His sixty-fifth book zeroes [...]

Just Don't Call Me Ma'am's subtitle--How I Ditched the South for the Big City, Forgot My Manners, and Managed to Survive My Twenties With (Most of) My Dignity Still Intact--might [...]

MURDER CITY: CIUDAD JUAREZ AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY'S NEW KILLING FIELDS offers a brutally frank snapshot of the descent of this major metropolis--just across the Rio Grande from downtown El [...]

In TEXAS TOUGH, the Yale-trained historian looks at the explosion in modern America's prison population. He finds the Texas penal system setting the pace in both the number of prisoners [...]

The founder of the Texas Innocence Network, who is also the litigation director at the Texas Defender Service and a professor at the University of Houston Law Center, uses his [...]

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist's second collection of essays, LAKE VIEWS, covers a range of topics, from religion and Armageddon to the 'Future of Science, and the Universe.' A professor in [...]

NEAR DEATH IN THE DESERT: TRUE STORIES OF DISASTER AND SURVIVAL is the fourth and final book in a series of anthologies about high adventures that devolve into life-or-death situations [...]

LET'S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME, a shimmeringly lovely second memoir from former Boston Globe books editor GAIL CALDWELL, opens with this brutally heartbreaking sentence: 'it's an old, old story: [...]

Galveston Island means much more than crab shacks and sunshine to ex-con Roy Cady, the narrator of NIC PIZZOLATTO'S gritty noir debut, GALVESTON. In the year 2008, Galveston is where [...]

Austinite DOUG DORST follows up his darkly comic 2008 debut novel, Alive in Necropolis, with THE SURF GURU, a freewheeling fiction collection that ranges from a story about the neuroses [...]

In TOUR DE LANCE, Bicycling magazine editor-at-large BILL STRICKLAND uses Lance Armstrong's return to the Tour de France after a three-year retirement as an opportunity to accompany him through nine [...]

LOUIS SACHAR'S young-adult novel Holes spent more than 175 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, which sets a daunting commercial benchmark for the Austin author's new effort, THE [...]

Loyal Ledford of Huntington, West Virginia, is the unassuming central figure of THE MARROWBONE MARBLE COMPANY, the lyrical second novel from Texas State grad GLENN TAYLOR, whose debut, The Ballad [...]

SECRET DAUGHTER, the debut from Dallas novelist SHILPI SOMAYA GOWDA, is a story born of two young couples in the year 1984, From the Indian farming village of Dahanu, the [...]

AUSTIN KLEON is quick to acknowledge that, far from inventing the poem-creating technique he uses in NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT--taking an indelible marker to the New York Times and blacking out text [...]

JAMES HYNES'S unsettling fifth novel, NEXT, captures eight hours in the life of 'melancholy middle-aged' Kevin Quinn as he sneaks away from Ann Arbor to Austin for a clandestine job [...]

In 1929 Dallas teenager Virginia Thompson fell into a fevered sleep for 180 days. Eighty years later that familial legend helped inspire granddaughter MOLLY CALDWELL CROSBY'S book ASLEEP, an investigation [...]

ONE AMAZING THING is a beautiful novel, a tapestry of nine stories from Houston's CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI, whose short fiction earned her an American Book Award in 1996. Seven potential [...]

First-time author and Austinite ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT takes a solemn approach to genre fiction, with nary a light moment in his allegorical horror novel, MR. SHIVERS. Set in the Depression-era [...]

The proposition at the heart of THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: 24 HOURS AFTER, STEVEN M. GILLON'S examination of the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's death, in Dallas, is that [...]