Grappling with the challenge of Wallace Stevens' masterpiece, 'Thirteen ways of looking at a blac...

This intriguing and often raucously funny collection by Brett Riley marries ingenious plots, inno...

Greenfield Jones, influenced by Peter DeVries and Flannery O'Connor, writes of people uncomfortab...

Few words evoke a more chilling response than 'human trafficking,' yet slavery persists. But what...

In their own ways, the stories in TexasSoundtrack are as musical as the songs thatinspired them, ...

After the electricity went off in the United States, the country suffered a great fire, and survi...

In Into the Thicket, H. Palmer Hall, reminds us that an East Texas pine tree blown over by a stor...

Originally published: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.

Dreaming Sam Peckinpah

Places We Could Never Find Alone

In Jim McGarrah's third poetry collection, the present is often eclipsed by the ghosted past of V...

Fox's poetic canvas is vast, deftly painted with an array of dazzling colors. The subjects of her...

Original poetry by an important contemporary poet.

Siren Songs from the Heart of Austin does new and vibrant things with narrative. Magical realism ...

Agave offers a mixture of graphic art, essays, short stories, poems, songs, and recipes that focu...

Human Resources is a collection of brutal honesty shot through with longing.Waters keeps a close ...

Chera Hammons' 'Recycled Explosions' places us in an elusive and at times frightening narrative, ...

The Juggler of the book's title is at once a literal image-a performer, a busker you might say-an...

Drawing upon cultural myths to explain his personal and family myths, R. Scott Yarbrough writes p...

This is a fun-to-read family history of the Craven family. Dr. Gail Craven Fail makes use of her ...

You don't have to love or even like cats to treasure this amazing book. Nothing quite like it has...

This is a collection of tales that will appeal to both general readers and to gambling enthusiast...

Wherever Robin McCorquodale turns her eye she finds a world awash in color and texture which she ...

Dr. Robert Rynearson describes Profile Self Confrontation, a counseling technique he developed ov...

In this work you'll find the past and the present, the grumpy and the funny, the family and the c...

The strongest witness poetry can make is to the personal life-and when that personal life is extr...

In a manner reminiscent of Boyle and DeLillo, Andrew Geyer's Dixie Fish is a tale of bliss gone a...

Hard living, missed opportunities, and dogged persistence in the pursuit of impossible dreams are...

My Many Sisters is the remarkable journal of a young woman who had the vision and strength of cha...

The scene is Houston in the early 70's, and driving the night shift till dawn a young cabby has a...

As with the poems of Donne, Herbert, and Hopkins, the artistic meditations in this collection are...

Jan Seale writes lyric poetry with a gift of intimacy, wrapping readers in rich, absorbing scenes...

These are lyric poems set in China by a leading American poet, Steven Schroeder, who has lived, s...

Part family memoir and part history of Swedes coming to America, this genealogical study focuses ...

Karla K. Morton's photographs are as sharp-edged as some of the tree branches and animal bones th...

Dave Kuhne's The Road to Roma and Other Stories takes you into the gritty, often poignant worlds ...

Dana Wildsmith's Jumping portrays with great skill and finesse the collision of the two worlds of...

Brazos View

David Bowles' words are fresh and mythical, with voices of Old Mexico and Samurai and ancient Gre...

Jim McGarrah's The End of An Era is an insightful, heartbreaking and, at times, hilarious account...

'The first note is almost struck...' says poet John Milkereit as he ferries us into a world resti...

Jan Seale's poetry is both beautifully witty and serious, often ingeniously weaving contemporary ...

In this memoir Dr. Charles Taylor chronicles with painful frankness his son's spiral downward int...

Dan Williams, following the success of his first novel, 'The Lords of Leftovers, ' offers the wor...

The Big Mosque of Mercy

Nearer James Lee Burke than Joe Lansdale, Sanderson's Dolph's Team is part border-town mystery an...

This youthful tale is not so much about fishing as it is about the discovery of values. It teache...