A Little Bit of Fun Before He Died
Only weeks before, I’d been across the street at the University of Texas at El Paso museum, working a three-story add-on as a carpenter—the second-highest-paid worker on the job site at five dollars an...
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The West as ‘Lonely, Heartbreaking, Scary, Sacred’: Q&A with Rubén Martínez
In her 1985 book, Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts, historian Patricia Nelson Limerick pondered the reactions to the desert from people such as Mark Twain, explorer and surveyor...
View Article‘Revision’ by Mar Colón-Margolies, ZYZZYVA No. 108, Winter Issue
He began with the clinic in the desert. And with the sneer on the face of the man he wanted to call the Reverend, even though the man was a doctor and the sneer actually a smile. Erek thought about...
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Last Man in the West: ‘A Texas Trilogy’ by Larry McMurtry
I once talked to Larry McMurtry on the telephone. I was doing a piece for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, pegged to Terms of Endearment, on why his works were so compulsively suitable for adaptation...
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The Path Amid the Loblolly Pines: Q&A with Photographer Matthew Genitempo
The cover of “Jasper” Matthew Genitempo’s forthcoming book of photographs, Jasper (96 pages; Twin Palms Publishers; available for pre-orders now), explores a region of the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas...
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