This blog posts on Mondays. This year, 2021, I am dedicating the first Monday of the month to Texas Books, in which I share with you some of the more unusual and interesting books in the Texas Bibliothek, that is, my working library. Listen in any time to the related podcast series.
In 2021 I am dedicating the first Monday of the month (and after March 2022, every other month) to sharing with you some of the more unusual and interesting books in the Texas Bibliothek, that is, my working library.
Q & A with Judy Alter About
The Most Land, The Best Cattle: The Waggoners of Texas
August 1, 2022
From the Archives: A Review of Sarah Cortez and
Sergio Troncoso’s Our Lost Border
June 6, 2022
Texas Books: The End of Night, West Texas Time Machine,
How We See the Sky, and More Books About the Sky & Stars
April 4, 2022
From the Archives: A Review of Desert America:
Boom and Bust in the New Old West by Rubén Martínez
March 7, 2022
From the Archives: My Review of Heribert von Feilitzsch’s
In Plain Sight: Felix A. Sommerfeld, Spymaster in Mexico, 1908-1914
February 7, 2022
What Is a Film Outside the Audience’s Mind?”
Notes on George Stevens: Interviews
January 3, 2022
Edna Ferber’s Giant
& A Selection of Related Books,
Plus Two Related Videos On (Yes) the Nuremberg Trials
December 6, 2021
They Beat Their Horses with Rocks
(And Other Means of Energizing Transport in the Permian Basin of 1858)
November 1, 2021
Into the Guadalupe Mountains:
Some Favorites from the Texas Bibliothek
(Plus a Couple of Extra-Crunchy Videos)
October 4, 2021
From the Archives:
My Review of Edward H. Miller’s
Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy
September 6, 2021
From the Archives:
Claudio Saunt’s West of the Revolution
August 1, 2021
From the Archives:
A Review of Pekka Hämäläinen’s The Comanche Empire
July 6, 2021
Selected Cabeza de Vaca Books, Part II:
Notes on Narrative Histories and Biographies
June 7, 2021
Selected Cabeza de Vaca Books, Part I:
Notes on the Two Editions of Cabeza de Vaca’s La Relación
(Also Known as Account, Chronicle, Narrative, Castaways,
Report & etc.)
and Selected English Translations
May 3, 2021
Carolyn E. Boyd’s The White Shaman Mural
April 5, 2021
The Texas Bibliothek’s Digital Doppelgänger:
My Online Working Library of Rare Books
March 1, 2021
From the Texas Bibliothek: The Sanderson Flood of 1965;
Faded Rimrock Memories;
Terrell County, Texas: Its Past, Its People
February 1, 2021
A Trio of Texas Biographies in the Texas Bibliothek
January 4, 2021