Texas Review Press: 53 books
Turning the Page
Book Culture in the Digital Age—Essays, Reflections, Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
American Book Review is not just a book review—it is also the heart and soul of writerly writing and small press publishing. In 2006, the publication was relocated to Victoria, Texas, where cultural critic and philosopher Jeffrey R. Di Leo became editor and publisher. Turning the Page collects Di Leo’s...
by Robert Winship
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“I was trying to remember the other day exactly what my first memories are of Kimble County, of Junction, of Segovia, Texas. There is some spectacular stuff there, if I can bring it all to the surface—without making anything up. That’s not real hard to do, but it takes time. You have to go slow.”—Bob...
Faithful Shep
The Story of a Hero Dog and the Nine Texas Rangers Who Saved Him
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
In a column in the El Paso Herald dated February 3, 1900, George Wythe Baylor, retired captain of Company C, Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers, wrote of a curious incident that occurred in January 1880: two travelers had their horses stolen by a band of Chief Victorio’s renegades a hundred miles...
Mystic Sails, Texas Trails
Captain Grimes, Shanghai Pierce, Range Wars, and Raising Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This four-generation saga, written with Mickey Herskowitz, begins with Richard Grimes, who became a sea captain at the astonishing age of 21, and made the first of his fortunes carrying passengers from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, to the West Indies. In 1821, he heard of the land grants being developed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, of which this Virginia collection is the first volume, serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. The writers included...
Zhiqing
Stories From China's Special Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Zhiqing: Stories from China’s Special Generation presents the recollections of fourteen men and women who were “sent down” to the countryside during China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). Teenagers or young adults at the time, the authors left school to heed Mao’s call...
Raiders and Horse Thieves
Memoir of a Central Texas Baby Boomer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
"All the more desirable coastal land of the New World had been acquired by the 1840s and ‘50s. The Scots-Irish entered this country through the Mid-Atlantic States rather than New England. They settled first in Virginia and Maryland and then moved on to Kentucky and Virginia. Some went...
The Enemy Within Never Did Without
German and Japanese Prisoners of War At Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II. Located roughly eight miles east of Huntsville, Texas, in Walker County, the camp was built in 1942 and opened for prisoners the following year. The camp served as a model site for POW installations...
by Tracy Daugherty
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The novellas and stories in American Originals c*onvey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow people—literally, or through the rituals of labor, or through the raptures of ecstatic vision, induced by blessings or madness—and people’s ability to forge connections in spite of extreme conditions....
by J. Scott Brownlee
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Set in the drought-plagued landscape of Central Texas, Ascension is a collection of lyric poems that chronicles life in and around Llano, Texas (population 3,033). Brownlee’s poems meditate on the inescapability of place.
Organ Solo with Oblivion and Gar
Skittish fish lay eggs
in this...
A Popular Play
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Poems from sonnets to free verse focus on pleasures and problems in ranch life and in west Texas, which include variations differing for generations returning to the ranch, and those family members who leave the ranch for city life.
CORMORANTS’ JOURNEY
Snowbirds come diving down, sliding...
by William Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
William Harrison is the author of nine novels, three collections of short stories, two major screenplays, essays and travel pieces. He was the co-founder of the writing program at the University of Arkansas and still lives in Fayetteville.Six couples from Austin, Texas, have vacationed on Lake Como...
by Johnnie Bernhard
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Fifty-year-old Karen Anders, a high school English teacher and the adoptive mother of Tiffany, comes to terms with being a single-parent and a clumsy drunk in the multicultural melting pot of Houston, Texas, as she forges an unlikely friendship with Leona Supak, a WWII Hungarian refugee, who inspires...
by Laurence Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2017
“Clairvoyant with Hunger consists of fourteen short essays on poems from James Dickey's last book; The Eagle’s Mile; twelve short essays on James Wright's best prose poems; a long essay on Dickey's third novel, To the White Sea; a long essay on W.S. Merwin's 320-page poem, The Folding Cliffs;...