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Deep In The Heart Of TexasIf you don't know from Billy Lee Brammer and his brilliant novel about Dallas politics, The Gay Place, welp, here's your chance. Dig in to these two Texas Monthly features:...

Hitting The Note With The Allman Brothers BandLast weekend I ran Grover Lewis' famous profile of the Allman brothers over at the Daily Beast....

CandyHere's Gary Cartwright's classic 1976 Texas Monthly story on Candy Barr:...

Failure Is Not An Option

Be sure and check out Mimi Swartz's long profile on Bev Kearney in the new issue of Texas Monthly:...

Bow Down To The Hoop Queens

Earlier this year Skip Hollandsworth wrote a story for Texas Monthly on the most dominant team in the history of women's college basketball. It's worth your time:...

Bud Shrake In The Land Of The Permanent Wave

Bryan Curtis wrote a nice story about Dan Jenkins, Edwin "Bud" Shrake, and their alma mater for Texas Monthly in 2008:...

Fame And Obscurity

I found this over at Longform (and if you haven't bookmarked this site by now, whadda ya waiting for?)—Robert Draper's 1992 Texas Monthly story on Cormac McCarthy. I'm not drawn to McCarthy's writing but I'm a sucker for profiles of writers and this is a good one:...

Don't Call It A Comeback

Dig Jan Reid's 1995 Texas Monthly story on George Foreman:...