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  The Dallas-Set Novel City of Hate Tells a Timely Story of Haves and Have-Nots

  July 9 at 4 a.m.

  When author Tim Miller reads back his writing, he hears the booming voice of his father, a Pentecostal preacher. Those kinds of preachers speak while they breathe, Miller explains, and their sermons are filled with intense fervor and conviction. The Dallas-based writer, now 49, was never a preacher himself, but...

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  North Texas Influencers Want To Make Reading Cool Again

  July 6 at 4 a.m.

  Is it just us, or has the content quality of Instagram significantly declined since the pandemic started? Let’s be honest, we know all our daily screen time reports are skyrocketing, but what are we even looking at on Instagram? It’s not like people are still posting many vacation photos or...

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  The 7 Best Books by Texas Authors You Should Check Out Now That You Have Time to Read

  March 17 at 4 a.m.

  With COVID-19 being the headlining blip on everyone’s radar and social distancing becoming the new normal, people are most likely going to be hanging around the house quite a bit. Between school closures, business closures and all cultural institutions on lockdown, day-to-day life may get pretty boring. The bad news...

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  Wanted in America: A New Book Collects Fort Worth ‘Wanted’ Posters

  February 28 at 4 a.m.

  Pickpockets, prostitutes, robbers and vagrants fill the pages of a recent book by TCU Press, the publishing house at Texas Christian University. While they may sound straight from the pages of a Charles Dickens novel, the cast of characters in Wanted in America: Posters Collected by the Fort Worth Police...

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  The (Word) Smiths: The Best Places in Dallas to Find Slam Poetry

  February 10 at 4 a.m.

  Whether your hands are weathered from snapping or you’re new to the sport, slam poetry is a great point of access to art, culture and a passion for the human condition. Poets take stories of love and heartbreak, unique perspectives on color and gender or political angst, bottle it up...

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  Hellraisin’: Two Writers Edit and Publish a Yearly Anthology of Texas Horror Stories

  January 31 at 4 a.m.

  When he's not shape-shifting into a part-time Bedford library assistant, Bret McCormick writes and edits hellacious horror stories. McCormick, along with E.R. Bills, another Texas author, began compiling an annual anthology of dreadful Lone Star-tinged tales about four years ago called Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers that’s been...