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Like true crime? Grab a copy of 'Last Gangster in Austin'
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWelcome back to “Think, Texas,” your free weekly digital newsletter about all things Texas past....
This summer, snag a copy of 'Last Gangster in Austin,' a riveting book about 1970s Junkyard Mafia
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf you pick up just one new Texas history this summer, make it "Last Gangster in Austin." Author and...
10 gift books for people who love Texas culture
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 year agoI live in a house of books. No wonder my first impulse during the holidays is to give new books to loved ones. For readers of Think, Texas, I've selected...
More madness and mayhem from the 1960s and 1970s crime bosses in Austin
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDear Texas history buffs, Welcome back to “Think, Texas,” your free weekly digital newsletter about...
Books about Texas make great last-minute gift options. Here are 10 of our picks.
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 5 months agoYou hear the aphorism all the time: People want experiences, not things. Books satisfy both desires....
Texas Book Festival set to honor novelist Elizabeth Crook with the 2023 Texas Writer Award
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIt is an accolade long overdue: At a gala dinner on Nov. 9, the Texas Book Festival is set to honor...
Did you go there? Help us name a lost Austin bar on East Sixth Street
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 month agoSomebody should write a history of East Sixth Street. To be fair, Allen Childs did produce the...
Sex Pistols in America: A Brief, Raucous History of the Punk Icons’ Doomed U.S. Tour
Billboard via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe brief 1978 run was marked by musical incompetence, audience antagonism and physical altercations...