Jeff Salamon

The author of Cronkite answers the question: What’s the most surprising thing you learned about Walter Cronkite?

If you were intrigued by Texas Monthly’s recent story about Conroe’s Defiance Press & Publishing, you might want to check out the works of some of Texas’s other independent publishers. Houston’s Arte Público Press published the first edition of Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street forty years ago and is still launching the careers of Latino authors. Corpus Christi–based Copano Bay Press specializes in long-out-of-print Texas history works such as 1894’s A Man From Corpus Christi: The True…

Texas Monthly staffer Dan Solomon discusses his first book, which comes out as we approach the ten-year anniversary of Davis’s abortion-bill filibuster.

Why the grocery chain’s rise has proven unstoppable.

Bill Broyles—now best known as a Hollywood screenwriter—remembers the magazine’s first issue.

The story behind the story behind Austinite Mike Shea’s three seconds of international fame.

The coffee table book ‘Marfa Gardens’ proves that there’s more to desert flora than cactus and agave.

Cornyation, lampooning San Antonio’s social elites since 1951.

Texas science fiction authors Nicky Drayden and Christopher Brown contemplate the future of writing about the future.

Festival managing director Roland Swenson reflects on a difficult year.