A roundup of some of the best of Texas’ literary scene.
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On Difference and Disability in “Secret Harvests”
A review of David Mas Matsumoto’s “Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm.”
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The Origins of Appalachian Cuisine Explored in “Appalachia on the Table”
Author Erica Abrams Locklear explores a cultural history of Appalachian foodways.
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Solace After Tragedy, in “This Isn’t Going to End Well”
The author Daniel Wallace explores what drove the brother-in-law he idolized to commit suicide.
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Finding Self and Home in S.L. Wisenberg’s “The Wandering Womb”
A review of S.L. Wisenberg’s new essay collection, “The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home.”
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Rediscovering Zora Neale Hurston: Author and Anthropologist
In a new nonfiction text, Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall offers a “deep, intensive, and knowledgeable lens through which to view Hurston’s legacy.”
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Reenvisioning Shakespeare with Peter Brook’s “Tip of the Tongue”
A review of “Tip of the Tongue: Reflections on Language and Meaning” by Peter Brook.
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“The In-Betweens” Is Intimate and Honest
Davon Loeb’s memoir, “The In-Betweens,” pulses with life and truth.
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Examining the Art of the Short Story in “Arranging Stories”
Heather A. Fox examines how white women writers in the South ordered their short story collections to say something about historical events, society or politics in the midst of a racist and male-dominated publishing era.
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Generational Horrors Faced Head-on in “Unloose My Heart”
Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens recounts her traumatizing childhood at the hands of a racist, abusive mother during the civil rights movement.
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