South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas
These Texas stories are among the best produced by the state's writers in the mid-twentieth century. Selected above all for their artistic excellence and their narrative mastery, they also present a vital picture of the Southwest in microcosm, as revealed in its largest state.

Texas and Texas writing moved from a Southern orientation in the 1940s—reflected here in works by William Goyen, William Humphrey, and others—to the strong Southwestern flavor of stories by such authors as Larry McMurtry and A. C. Greene to, finally, urban or Sunbelt Texas, mirrored in the edgy, sometimes experimental prose of Doug Crowell, William Harrison, and Peter LaSalle.

Here are stories by such celebrated authors as Paul Horgan and William A. Owens, as well as startling, in some cases previously unpublished work by writers like Harryette Mullen, Naomi Shihab Nye, Pat Ellis Taylor, and Thomas Zigal. A few stories may already be favorites—Larry McMurtry's "There Will Be Peace in Korea," Amado Muro's "Cecilia Rosas." Many others have become classics, such as Vassar Miller's poignantly autobiographical "Pact," Hughes Rudd's hilarious record of grade school fieldtrips, R. E. Smith's gripping story of a Houstonian's life-changing encounter with nature, and Dave Hickey's astonishing account of an old cowboy's imprisonment . . . in a bathtub.

Bill Brett, James Crumley, Linda West Eckhardt, Robert Flynn, Mary Gray Hughes, Carolyn Osborn—all are represented here by stories guaranteed to banish stereotypes and boredom and to enlarge one's vision of the Lone Star State. Anyone who thinks that oil wells and big hair define Texas will find out differently in the dazzling short fiction presented in South by Southwest.

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South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas
These Texas stories are among the best produced by the state's writers in the mid-twentieth century. Selected above all for their artistic excellence and their narrative mastery, they also present a vital picture of the Southwest in microcosm, as revealed in its largest state.

Texas and Texas writing moved from a Southern orientation in the 1940s—reflected here in works by William Goyen, William Humphrey, and others—to the strong Southwestern flavor of stories by such authors as Larry McMurtry and A. C. Greene to, finally, urban or Sunbelt Texas, mirrored in the edgy, sometimes experimental prose of Doug Crowell, William Harrison, and Peter LaSalle.

Here are stories by such celebrated authors as Paul Horgan and William A. Owens, as well as startling, in some cases previously unpublished work by writers like Harryette Mullen, Naomi Shihab Nye, Pat Ellis Taylor, and Thomas Zigal. A few stories may already be favorites—Larry McMurtry's "There Will Be Peace in Korea," Amado Muro's "Cecilia Rosas." Many others have become classics, such as Vassar Miller's poignantly autobiographical "Pact," Hughes Rudd's hilarious record of grade school fieldtrips, R. E. Smith's gripping story of a Houstonian's life-changing encounter with nature, and Dave Hickey's astonishing account of an old cowboy's imprisonment . . . in a bathtub.

Bill Brett, James Crumley, Linda West Eckhardt, Robert Flynn, Mary Gray Hughes, Carolyn Osborn—all are represented here by stories guaranteed to banish stereotypes and boredom and to enlarge one's vision of the Lone Star State. Anyone who thinks that oil wells and big hair define Texas will find out differently in the dazzling short fiction presented in South by Southwest.

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South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas

South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas

South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas

South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas

Overview

These Texas stories are among the best produced by the state's writers in the mid-twentieth century. Selected above all for their artistic excellence and their narrative mastery, they also present a vital picture of the Southwest in microcosm, as revealed in its largest state.

Texas and Texas writing moved from a Southern orientation in the 1940s—reflected here in works by William Goyen, William Humphrey, and others—to the strong Southwestern flavor of stories by such authors as Larry McMurtry and A. C. Greene to, finally, urban or Sunbelt Texas, mirrored in the edgy, sometimes experimental prose of Doug Crowell, William Harrison, and Peter LaSalle.

Here are stories by such celebrated authors as Paul Horgan and William A. Owens, as well as startling, in some cases previously unpublished work by writers like Harryette Mullen, Naomi Shihab Nye, Pat Ellis Taylor, and Thomas Zigal. A few stories may already be favorites—Larry McMurtry's "There Will Be Peace in Korea," Amado Muro's "Cecilia Rosas." Many others have become classics, such as Vassar Miller's poignantly autobiographical "Pact," Hughes Rudd's hilarious record of grade school fieldtrips, R. E. Smith's gripping story of a Houstonian's life-changing encounter with nature, and Dave Hickey's astonishing account of an old cowboy's imprisonment . . . in a bathtub.

Bill Brett, James Crumley, Linda West Eckhardt, Robert Flynn, Mary Gray Hughes, Carolyn Osborn—all are represented here by stories guaranteed to banish stereotypes and boredom and to enlarge one's vision of the Lone Star State. Anyone who thinks that oil wells and big hair define Texas will find out differently in the dazzling short fiction presented in South by Southwest.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780292776012
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 04/01/1986
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Don Graham is J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Graham has written extensively on Southwestern American literature, film, and history.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • The Short Story in Texas
  • A Voice from the Woods (William Humphrey)
  • Hangerman John (William A. Owens)
  • Bridge of Music, River of Sand (William Goyen)
  • Justice (Bill Brett)
  • The Shores of Schizophrenia (Hughes Rudd)
  • Pact (Vassar Miller)
  • In Summer's Name (Paul Horgan)
  • Christmas 1918: Sennicot Place (Linda West Eckhardt)
  • The Girl at Cabe Ranch (A. C. Greene)
  • I'm Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows (Dave Hickey)
  • There Will Be Peace in Korea (Larry McMurtry)
  • The Savior of the Bees (Robert Flynn)
  • Reversals (Carolyn Osborn)
  • Cecilia Rosas (Amado Muro)
  • The Judge (Mary Gray Hughes)
  • Whores (James Crumley)
  • The Gift Horse's Mouth (R. E. Smith)
  • Orphan of the West (Thomas Zigal)
  • What Can't Be Measured (Harryette Mullen)
  • Pablo Tamayo (Naomi Shihab Nye)
  • Leaping Leo (Pat Ellis Taylor)
  • Life in the Sun Belt (Peter LaSalle)
  • Living in the Desert (Doug Crowell)
  • Roller Ball Murder (William Harrison)
  • Notes on the Authors
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