My Thalia Pilgrimage
Toward the end of the last century, I was attending a Christmas party in the TCU area where a sprinkling of professor types were...
Road Killing It
Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 5 is an immersive, haunting collection of short stories that are as thought-provoking as they are frightening....
Hap and Leonard Return
As most former American Lit grad students around the country can tell you, it’s tough to shake the requisite terminology, phrasing, and general concepts...
Road Kill 4
Like many other books, I read this one while sitting in the corner of a bar by myself. Inevitably, passersby inquired as to what...
Fort Worth’s Monster
The premise of Beast King is that a couple of scientists who work for some unnamed secret laboratory in Fort Worth are experimenting with...
All the Colors of Unity
Glued to my phone in a semi-crowded coffee shop the other day, I found myself deeply perplexed and mildly confused and amused by a...
Glass House Men
A relatively new book tells the story of a child of privilege educated at an Ivy League university who changed the United States’ landscape...
Twentieth-Century Women
While the title of Julie Kibler’s historical fiction novel Home for Erring and Outcast Girls doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, it’s at least...
Superhero Bootcamp
Nicolas Brown and Ryan Wheeler are quite the dynamic duo.
Brown, a Ph.D. candidate and doctoral teaching lecturer, and Wheeler, a Ph.D. student and graduate...
Getting Back to the Basics
The North Texas Comic Book Show prides itself on being an OG comic-con.
In the past decade or so, fan conventions have grown into a...
