The Minor Regional Novelist
A profile of Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author Larry McMurtry.
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A profile of Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author Larry McMurtry.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jun 2016 30min Permalink
Amarillo accepts more refugees per capita than anywhere in Texas. And as families navigate a new country, Miss Evelyn, a former teacher, helps guide them.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Nov 2016 35min Permalink
Early last year, 10 churches were torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly May 2011 30min Permalink
Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.
William Martin Texas Monthly Nov 1982 30min Permalink
After two tours in Iraq, the writer returns to a volatile region of Afghanistan as an embedded journalist.
Matt Cook Texas Monthly Jul 2013 35min Permalink
The rise and murderous fall of the Harkey family, the scions of a pecan dynasty.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Dec 2014 35min Permalink
A 23-year-old living in Chile was suddenly attacked and buried alive by her roommate. She later learned she wasn’t his first – or last – victim.
Francesca Mari Texas Monthly Jun 2015 45min Permalink
The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Dec 2012 1h50min Permalink
DNA evidence proved Lydell Grant’s innocence. So why won’t the state’s highest criminal court exonerate him?
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Oct 2020 40min Permalink
A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.
Ricardo C. Ainslie Texas Monthly Apr 2013 15min Permalink
A profile of Kermit Oliver, a reclusive, critically acclaimed artist who designs scarves for Hermès and works nights at the Waco post office.
Jason Sheeler Texas Monthly Oct 2012 Permalink
Kevin is the only surviving Von Erich brother, born into a wrestling family that lived and died by the code of the ring.
John Spong Texas Monthly Oct 2005 30min Permalink
An account of the trial of Warren Jeffs, the polygamous prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Oct 2011 25min Permalink
How prosecutors tied a brazen murder in an upscale Dallas suburb to one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations.
Michael J. Mooney Texas Monthly Aug 2018 30min Permalink
Katy Vine is an executive editor for Texas Monthly.
“This is a huge state. There’s so much, and it’s different everywhere you look. You just go to Houston and there’s worlds within worlds within worlds just within the one city. You go to San Antonio and you’re in a different country, and you go to Dallas, you’re in a totally different country. … It’s wild to me. It’s endlessly fascinating.”
Jan 2023 Permalink
An investigation into the death of a sacred white buffalo and the man who raised it.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Jan 2013 30min Permalink
The story of dog-scent lineup innovator Keith Pikett and the not-so-scientific science behind forensics.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly May 2010 35min Permalink
A high school student disappears, only to turn up more than 10 years later – posing as a high school student.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Mar 2002 40min Permalink
On the mysterious life story of blues icon Blind Willie Johnson and a half-century of attempts to fill in the blanks.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Dec 2010 30min Permalink
World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Aug 2018 25min Permalink
A profile of the singer-songwriter.
Casey Gerald Texas Monthly Jul 2021 40min Permalink
Pamela Colloff is an executive editor and staff writer at Texas Monthly.
"There are many, many people who write and they have tragic stories, but they're not necessarily compelling magazine articles. Figuring out what is a compelling magazine article and what isn't is one of the more painful things about this. You can't look into every case. But your job is to be a storyteller."
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Nov 2012 Permalink
On tour with a man who has claimed to kill Bigfoot three different times.
Jeff Winkler Texas Monthly Dec 2015 40min Permalink
Two reports, twelve years apart, on the killing of a high school cheerleader in a small Oklahoma town and its aftermath.
How the body of 16-year-old Heather Rich ended up in Belknap Creek and how the cops found the boys who put it there.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jul 2002 – Mar 2014 1h5min Permalink
A Houston man allegedly tries to hire several hit men to kill his wife. Each fails miserably. It becomes the talk of the town.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Feb 2012 Permalink