Non-fiction Publication List

I do my best to keep this updated.

NATIONAL

 

Atlantic: How the Western Was Lost, and Why It Matters

The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor

The Last Book Sale: An Era Ends for an Author, a Town, and a Culture

“Girls,” “Mad Men,” and the Future of TV-as-literature

Los Angeles Review of Books: Life During Wartime

Pacific Standard: How to Escape From a Cult in the 21st Century

Slate: The Image in the 21st Century

What Will Become of the Library?

What Will Become of the Paper Book?

Wall Street Journal: Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

Wired: Marfa, Texas Is Getting Its Own Solar-Powered Stonehenge

 

TEXAS

 

Texas Monthly: Boxed in by Social Distancing, an Endlessly Inventive Theater Festival Powers on Online

For Performing Arts in the Age of Social Distancing, the Show Must Go Online

The Seminal Novel About the 1918 Flu Pandemic Was Written by a Texan

What Would a Frontier-Era Explorer Take Home From Modern-Day Texas?

A New Quixote Adaptation Reimagines the Borderlands

How a Brazilian Artist Found Inspiration in West Texas Prehistory and Deep Ecology

How a Public Art Project in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez is Spurring Cross-Border Conversations

San Antonio’s Ruby City Is a Literal Dream Come True

At Houston’s Embattled Alley Theatre, a Breath of Fresh Air

The Psychedelic State of South Texas

Margarita Cabrera’s Monumental ‘Arbol de la Vida’ Grows in San Antonio

How ‘Checkpoint Carlos,’ a Work of Art Along the Texas Border, Was Inspired by Memories of the Berlin Wall

World-Renowned Architect Sir David Adjaye on Building a “Little Temple of Art” for San Antonio

Can Hackers Mess With Texas’s Elections?

Dallas Artist lauren woods is Locked in a Remarkable Museum Stand-off

Vincent Valdez, the People’s Champion

A New Book Takes a Look at the Legacy of “Giant”

Timothy Morton Is Houston’s Own Catastrophe Guru

Unveiling Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin”

Jimmie Durham, Unmasked

Revisiting Mexico’s Microcuentos

Remembering Houston’s National Women’s Conference Forty Years Later

The Rascuache Art of Alejandro Diaz

Art in the Shadow of Trump at the Texas Biennial

Bonnie and Clyde at 50

The Wonderful World of Bluth

Dallas’s David Lowery Won’t Leave His Old Haunts

No Sign of Trump’s “Millions” of Illegal Voters in Texas

A Serious Writer (Jim Magnuson)

A Brooklyn Bridge Too Far: Texas Invades Brooklyn (Sundance)

The Steve Jobs of West Texas (John Hanke)

Wards Matter (Robert Pruitt)

Border Crossings

Miracle in the Desert (Robert Irwin)

To Live and Die in Startup Village

Texas Observer: The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar

A Joyful El Paso Art Show Imagine a World Ruled by Latinx People

The Clothes That Make the Man

Snakes and Ladders

At Home in the World (Prince Varughese Thomas)

Ancestors in a Strange New Land

A San Antonio Art Show Quietly Foregrounds Migrants’ Stories

100 Ways to Draw a Line

Cody Wilson, Austin’s Edgelord Prince

In “The Atomic Cafe,” U.S. Cold War Propaganda Comes Out of the Closet for the Trump Era

His Pet Monsters (Trenton Doyle Hancock)

Houston Photo Exhibit Documents First Markers of Modern U.S.-Mexico Border

Wall Flowers

Adios Utopia, Hello Texas

Internment Camps Take the Stage in Houston, and We Wish It Was Just a History Lesson

Lives in Limbo (Sin Huellas)

In Loving, a Valentine to Marriage Equality

The Big Picture: Painting White Supremacy (Vincent Valdez)

Rattling Cages (Sedrick Huckaby)

De Stijl Displays the Identity-Conscious Work of UT-Austin’s Only Black MFAs

“Trapped” in the Limelight

Photos of Dystopia

Houston’s Absent Son (Mark Rothko)

Here Are All 21 Mass Shootings ‘Good Guys with Guns’ Didn’t Stop in 2015

Catching Up with Janis

Narco Violence, as Seen by a Journalist-Turned-Artist

The Great Mellowing: God, Willie Nelson, and the increasingly thinkable pipe dream of marijuana reform

Now You See It: Artist Mel Chin revisits home in Houston

Visiting the LBJ Library in the Shadow of Selma

Forgetting How to Read? Stop Reading Online

 

AUSTIN

 

Austin Chronicle: Charlene deGuzman Tackles Sex and Love Addiction in Unlovable

Your Guide to the Most Intriguing Films of the Austin Asian-American Film Festival

Obamacare Lives! (And So Can You)

SNL Alum Noel Wells’ Mr. Roosevelt

A Rape Survivor Story, Minus the Sensationalism

Austin at Sundance 2017

Kill the Trumpet Player

Cowboys and Indies

Labors of Love (and Money)

Alfonso and Thomas and The Dying Girl

Andrew Bujalski Pumps Up with Results

The Showalter State (Hello My Name is Doris)

Writing the Frontier (The Homesman)

The Golden Ages of Matthew Weiner

Austin Monthly: Waiting His Turn

Thinking Outside the Box

 

ADVICE COLUMN

 

Help Desk (defunct)

 

FILM AND BOOK REVIEWS

Boy Erased

Person to Person

Through the Repellent Fence

The Transfiguration

Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli

The Work

Win It All

Keanu

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Operation Avalache

Upstairs Inferno

Variations on a Rectangle by DJ Stout

Dominguinhos

Funny Bunny

Son of the Congo

Ghost Horse by Thomas McNeely

Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce

Heli and Summer of the Flying Fish

Cesar Chavez

After Dinner Declarations by Nicanor Parra

America America by Ethan Canin

The Second Plane by Martin Amis

Dangerous Laughter by Stephen Millhauser

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortazar

 

UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS

 

Contributions to Alcalde (UT-Austin), UT Law, UCLA Law, USC Trojan Family Magazine, Swarthmore College Bulletin, Colgate Scene, Trinity College Magazine, and Columbia College Today. Samples upon request.