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TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS July/August 2007 Newsletter Page 4
More news of members and others
The State House Press McWhiney Foundation of-
fers two recent books by TIL members Stephen L.
Hardin and Judy Alter. Stephen's book is Texian
Macabre: A Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early
Houston, set in the days of the Republic of Texas. Judy's
book is a biography for children, Audie Murphy: War
Hero and Movie Star.
Back in May 2003 Skip Hollandsworth's article,"O
Sister, Where Art Thou?" appeared in the Texas
Monthly. It was about eight women in the Goree prison
unit who formed an all-female country and Western act
in the 1940s. Now Skip's article has been optioned for a
possible movie by Jennifer Aniston (remember her?
Friends?) and her producing partner, Kristin Hahn.
According to Dallas Morning News writer Alan
Pepard, by way of the Hollywood Reporter, the article
will be converted into a musical. Skip meets such inter-
esting people-JenniferAniston, Farrah Fawcett, Candy
Barr, and Anna Nicole Smith to name just a handful.
In the last issue there was an article about the sepa-
ration of the Texas State Historical Association and the
University of Texas at Austin. UT will continue to main-
tain TSHA's Handbook of Texas Online service and it
will continue to work with the TSHA on the Southwest-
ern Historical Quarterly.
You may have read the essay by Morris Dickstein
in the June 17, 2007, issue of the New York Times Book
Review, but your editor couldn't resist clipping it ("The
Inner Lives of Men") for mention in this column. It was
a profile of John Williams, an East Texas native who
became an accomplished if unappreciated writer who
founded the creative writing program at the University
of Denver and taught in it for more than three decades.
Williams died in 1994. His book, Stoner, was said to be
a "perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so
deeply moving, that it takes your breath away." Stoner
and another of his books, Butcher 's Crossing, have been
reprinted recently by New York Review of Books.
Don Carleton has edited a memoir of former Texas
governor Ross Sterling that was published by the UT
Press this spring. It's Ross Sterling, Texan: A Memoir
by the Founder of Humble Oil and Refining Com-
pany. An interesting story behind it-the book was writ-
ten in the late 1940s by Ed Kilman, but it was such a
piece of hagiography that it was never published. Still, it
had great material obtained from interviews with Ster-
ling himself. So, our own Don has put it into proper form
so that it becomes a valuable piece of Texas history.Carlton Stowers is back home in Cedar Hill after
a productive year at the Abilene Reporter News.
While in Abilene he wrote an eight-part series on the
unsolved homicide of a former television news reporter
entitled "The Murder of Jennifer Servo." It won first
place awards from the Associated Press Managing
Editors Association in the Best Feature Series category,
the Houston Press Club's Lone Star Award for Best
Investigative Reporting, and the State Bar Association's
Texas Gavel Award for Excellence in Legal Report-
ing.
A new book by Naomi Shihab Nye with a pro-
vocative title will appear in September 2007 under the
imprint of Greenwillow/HarperCollins. All right, here's
the title: I'llAsk You Three Times, Are You OK? Tales
of Driving and Being Driven.
David J. Weber, history professor at SMU, was
elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the only SMU faculty member to re-
ceive the honor. He's spending the 2007-20008 year
as the Frederick W. And Carrie S. Beinecke Senior
Fellow at the Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers
and Borders, and the Beinecke Library, Yale Univer-
sity.
Greg Garrett, English professor at Baylor, has
published two non-fiction books recently. The most
recent, appearing this year, was The Gospel Accord-
ing to Hollywood (Westminster John Knox), a study
of spiritual themes in American films. It received a
starred review in Publishers Weekly's Religion
BookLine. Earlier he published Crossing Myself
(Navpress), a memoir about his own battle with chronic
depression.
In May, his short story, "The Hands of Christ,"
was presented as a part of the Texas Bound series at
the Dallas Museum ofArt. Presently, Greg is working
on a book about his experience as a chaplain at
Brackenridge Hospital inAustin. And, busy guy, he is
studying theology at the Episcopal Theological Semi-
nary of the Southwest in Austin.
The first annual short story contest, in honor of
Elmer Kelton, has been announced by the Concho
River Review in conjunction with the Angelo State
University Writers Conference. Writers are asked to
submit original unpublished works of no more than
4,500 words. The winner will receive $250, publica-
tion in CRR, and a reading slot at the ASU Writers
Conference. Entry fee is $10 and the deadline is Oct.
15, 2007. Guidelines at http://www.angelo.edu/faculty/
jwegner/crrhomepage/short story contest.htm.TEXAS INSTITUTE OF L-ETTERS
July/August 2007 Newsletter
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