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Could You Eat Your Green Ham Here? Could You Eat It For a Year?

No contest prize better symbolizes American abundance than the classic "year's supply," which conjures images of winners with endless closets full of puppy chow, baking powder or floor wax. Ham I Am!​But just what constitutes a year's supply? Should food contest entrants be prepared to feast on t ... More >>

Star Power

In All Seriousness, a Local Marine's Joker One

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Forget Me Not

In his debut novel, Plano's Stefan Merrill Block makes peace with a family curse

To Meet a War Hero

The Book on Tony Romo

Digging for Gold-diggers in Dallas. Like That's Hard.

Local Lit Fit

The Reel Truth

Hollywood Claims the Sky is Falling. To Which We Say Puh-lease.

Code Breaker

Countering a popular novel lets a Dallas theologian spread The Word

Paul Faaaaag!

The creator of TV's Freaks can't stop talking about being a geek

Making Book

First-time authors gamble on a new form of publishing taking its first shaky steps

Confess, Greg

For years, Fletch was out of print. Now, his father explains why.

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

Twisp of the Tale

When C.D. Payne stopped writing ad copy, he created a revolutionary teenage hero

Fart of the Deal

We told you so

E-publish or perish

Move over Mr. Gutenberg -- Dallas Internet entrepeneur Patrick Seaman is hunting for the "killer app" to create the next revolution in publishing

Exorcising demons

A Wedgwood member recounts last year's tragedy to help others--and himself--move on

Dawson's book

Life is Good so far

Valley of the dull

Susann biopic isn't Great, not by the longest shot

Read? What am that?

The year in rock books which isn't such an oxymoron, really

Nothing But The Truth

James Halperin's book The Truth Machine calls for a utopia where infallible lie detectors make us better people from the president on down. Is it science fiction or prophecy?

Events for the week

It's the stock price, stupid!

High-flying Danny Wettreich has shut down companies, destroyed jobs, and drawn the scrutiny of two federal agencies, But he says it's what the stock market thinks of him that counts.