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Texas Books in Review

Volume XIX, No. 3 (Fall 1999)



CONTENTS


1 Ironic Conjunto Mark Busby
Dick Heaberlin
2

Música Tejana: The Cultural Economy of Artistic Transformation
by Manuel Peña

Gary Hartman

3 Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion
by Janis P. Stout
Priscilla Leder
4

Grandma Fina and Her Wonderful Umbrellas / La Abuelita Fina y sus sombrillas maravillosas
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

A Gift from Papa Diego / Un regalo de Papá Diego
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Camille Phillips
6 The Royal Road, El Camino Real from Mexico City to Sante Fe.
Photographs by Christine Preston; text by Douglas Preston and José Antonio Esquibel
Allen Lehane
7 Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories
edited by Robert Phillips
Rollo Newsom
8

The New Central Texas Gardener
by Cheryl Hazeltine and Barry Lovelace

High Desert Yards & Gardens
by Lynn Ellen Doxon

Perennial Gardens for Texas
by Julie Ryan

Texas Wildscapes
by Noreen Damude, Kelly Conrad Bender

Dick Heaberlin
10 O dammit!: A Lexicon and Lecture from William Cowper Brann, The Iconoclast
by Jerry Flemons
Glenn Dayley
11 Deadlines & Datelines
by Dan Rather
Betty J. Roberts
12 Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond
by Larry McMurtry
Mark Busby
13 Larry L. King: A Writer's Life in Letters, or, Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye
edited by Richard A. Holland
Lyman Grant
14 They Are Ruining Ibiza
by A. C. Greene
Mary Ellen Hartje
16 Editing Sky
by David M. Parsons
Jennifer Belcik
17 Every Man Also
by Robert Winship
Clay Reynolds
18 The Buckskin Line
by Elmer Kelton
Bob Frye
19 Into A Thousand Mouths
by Janice Whittington
Carol Coughlin
20 Houston Notes Robert Phillips
22 Horton Foote and the Theater of Intimacy
by Gerald C. Wood
Jerry Bryan Lincecum


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Cover photograph by Dick Heaberlin.

Editors
Mark Busby
Dick Heaberlin

Editorial Associate
Linda Busby

Assistant Editor
Glenn Dayley

Editorial Assistants
Jennifer Belcik
Henry Lyle III

Editors at Large
A. C. Greene
Rolando Hinojosa
James Ward Lee
William B. Martin
Tom Pilkington

Contributing Editors

Norman Brown
Social Sciences

Terrell Dixon
Environmental Literature

Don Graham
Ken Harrison
Film

Richard Holland
Music, Museums, and Collections

Al Lowman
Book Collecting/Design

Judyth Rigler
Brief Reviews

Regional Editors

Patrick Bennett
West Texas

James W. Byrd
East Texas

Dave Oliphant
Austin

Jan Epton Seale
South Texas

Dale L. Walker
Trans-Pecos

Robert Phillips
Houston

 
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