Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers the Sixties, and the Evolution of a Texas Culture

by DAVIS STEVEN L.

• ISBN13: 9780875652856
• ISBN10: 0875652859
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-30
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Author Biography

Steven L. Davis currently serves as the assistant curator of the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University-San Marcus, which houses the literary papers of Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, and Gary Cartwright.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Texas Literary Outlaws	1	(8)
PART ONE Coming of Age in Texas
1. A Rebel in West Texas	9	(16)
2. A Texas Oasis	25	(14)
3. The Gay Place	39	(16)
4. Fort Worth's New Journalism	55	(17)
5. The Texas Beats	72	(12)
6. Big D Meets the Flying Punzars	84	(12)
7. A Gathering Force	96	(13)
8. A Long Way from Beaumont	109	(9)
9. Dallas, 1963	118
PART TWO Too Much Ain't Enough
10. A New Beginning	129	(11)
11. The Doors of Perception	140	(12)
12. Literary Comanches	152	(5)
13. These Happy Occasions	157	(9)
14. The One-Eyed Man	166	(6)
15. Cowboys and Indians	172	(11)
16. Harper's on the Rise	183	(5)
17. Obscure Famous Arthurs	188	(10)
18. Absurdism in the Southwest	198	(9)
19. Busted in the Oasis	207	(8)
20. Harvard's "White Racist"	215	(5)
21. Land of the Permanent Wave	220	(8)
22. Mad Dog, Texas	228	(11)
23. King's Road	239	(11)
24. Outlaws	250	(9)
25. Hack Observations and Literary Feuds	259	(9)
26. Redneck Hippies	268	(7)
27. Strange Peaches	275	(6)
28. Semi-Tough	281	(8)
PART THREE-Texas ... Chic?
29. A New View of Texas	289	(5)
30. The Cowboy Professor	294	(4)
31. Live Music Capital	298	(4)
32. North Dallas Forty	302	(7)
33. The Regenerator Erection Laboratory	309	(6)
34. Challenging Texas	315	(5)
35. Changes at Sports Illustrated	320	(5)
36. Texas' Gonzo Journalist	325	(9)
37. Texas Brain Fry	334	(7)
38. LBJ, Speed, and Paranoia	341	(8)
39. Hollywood vs. Sports Illustrated	349	(6)
40. Whorehouse	355	(7)
41. A Fraction of His Talent	362	(5)
42. Measures of Success	367	(7)
43. Hitting the Wall	374	(7)
44. A Recovery	381	(4)
45. "Ever a Bridegroom"	385	(9)
46. Third Coast	394	(3)
47. Faces in the Fire	397	(6)
PART FOUR-How Time Slips Away
48. Jenkins	403	(14)
49. King	417	(16)
50. Cartwright	433	(8)
51. Shrake	441	(10)
52. "Doing Indefinable Services to Mankind"	451	(9)
Notes	460	(32)
Bibliography	492	(10)
Index	502