* collects Cartwright's best TEXAS MONTHLY articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with 1 new essay * Cartwright's "portraits of tarnished icons, breezy individualists and outright lowlifes add up to a gallery of contemporary Texas outlaws" * Cartwright has been a writer since the 1950s with scores of newspaper pieces as well as magazine articles (ESQUIRE, HARPER'S, ROLLING STONE, SATURDAY REVIEW) and books embracing many genres: novel (THE HUNDRED-YARD WAR), crime reporting (BLOOD WILL TELL; DIRTY DEALING), essay anthology (CONFESSIONS OF A WASHED-UP SPORTSWRITER), history (GALVESTON), self-help (HEARTWISEGUY)
Gary Cartwright (1934–2017) was a Senior Editor at Texas Monthly in Austin.
"Gary Cartwright has long been an important Texas writer, one of the finest journalists the state has ever produced, and all of his strengths are on vivid display in this collection." --Stephen Harrigan
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