

J.R. Helton, with Introduction by Michael Taylor
- Jul 20, 2020
- 45 min
BOOKS / Below the Line (excerpt)
Every now and then I run across a book that reverberates from start to finish with the unflinchingly brutal honesty that can only come...


Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown
- Jul 9, 2020
- 5 min
FIELD NOTES / Wotan on the Beach
The first time I came to Port Aransas, I found the bayside nature preserve by following the simple rule of walking away from where...


Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown
- May 17, 2020
- 10 min
The Coyotes of Soylent Green
The coyotes have been getting rowdy this week. Monday night we heard one of those insane banshee chorales—a sudden eruption of alien...


H.H. Howze
- Apr 7, 2020
- 11 min
Honduras Otra Vez
Honduras, 1997 “All those Olancho Rivers have gold in them,” Salem explained as we peered into the dinner plate full of river sand...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Aug 9, 2019
- 14 min
Vietnam: Getting In / Getting Out
A Three-Part Account of My Experience Part III: A Grenade, A Chicken, and The Bird Home On June 7, 1969, I woke up at 5 AM and made sure...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Aug 2, 2019
- 13 min
VIETNAM: GETTING IN/GETTING OUT
A Three-Part Account of My Experience PART II: Hello Vietnam, I Really Must Be Going At the completion of Advanced Infantry Training,...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Jul 26, 2019
- 16 min
Vietnam: Getting In / Getting Out
A Three-Part Account of My Experience PART I: Dreams, Schemes and the End of Innocence 1969 was a year of contrasts and contradictions....


Bob Simmons / Photos: Dan Hubig
- Jun 14, 2019
- 4 min
You Can't Go to Cuba Again ... Again
“The right to depart from and re-enter one’s country should be viewed as an intrinsic part of what it means to be a citizen of our...


James Medlin / Art: Dan Hubig
- May 15, 2019
- 8 min
'WHY NOT?' / The Path to the Florida Years
From the Writer Formerly Known as "BigBoy" Yes, I was born on a mountaintop (no longer there) in Santa Anna, Texas. No, I was not ridden...


Frank Browning
- Apr 16, 2019
- 1 min
Browning / Notre Dame, France’s Heart on Fire
The words speckled my screen just before sunset: Incendie à Notre Dame, Christophe typed, fresh out of a daily contractor meeting for an...


Peter Chapa
- Oct 16, 2018
- 12 min
El Casino
Peter Chapa wrote this childhood reminiscence of Hebbronville’s El Casino Theatre in 1973 El Casino was the Mexican cine or “el mono,” as...


Clay Coppedge
- Aug 27, 2018
- 9 min
Hub City Hip
The first time most of the wider world ever heard of Lubbock was after several people saw a group of bright lights zooming across the...


FRANK BROWNING
- May 31, 2018
- 6 min
Paris, May '68: You Say It Was a Revolution?
The pervasive posters, video-docs, street banners and public seminars in France are clear signs that millions want to remember 1968. But...