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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...

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  Producer Symbolyc One Discusses His Faith and His First Time Working with Kanye West

  January 30 at 4 a.m.

  Waco-based hip-hop producer Symbolyc One (or “S1,” for short) can look back on a life of astonishing achievement, but as far as he’s concerned, he would not have developed the lofty bully pulpit he stands comfortably on were it not for God or, on a more tangible level, those peers...

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  Best-Selling Illustrator Arturo Torres Talks Movies, Fatherhood and Setting Records

  Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Arturo Torres has the best reason for missing my first phone call: His son was asleep on top of him. “Sorry, bro,” the illustrator is quick to say. “I’m a father now, so you know how it goes.” I do not, in fact, know how it goes, but anyone who...