What's So Special About the Big Bend of Far West Texas? Dallas Baxter Explains

"I really love this place out here, and I love the way it looks. I like the way it smells. I like to go outside at night and just look at the sky and feel the wind, and I think it's a really precious place, and I think it's a precious place because of what has come before and because of what's here now." -- Dallas BaxterNow available: the full...

John Tutino: "We need Mexico as an other. We can't deal with it as an us."

Slowly but surely the transcripts from my Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project are going on-line. Now available: #13 “Looking at Mexico in New Ways: An Interview with John Tutino."John Tutino: "We need Mexico as an other. We can't deal with it as an us." But his whole point is that, in fact, US and Mexico are inseparable. It's a knock-your-huaraches-off...

New Transcript Just Posted: Marfa Mondays Podcast #15 Gifts of the Ancient Ones: Greg Williams on the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

Slowly but surely, my many podcasts, including the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project interviews, are getting transcribed. The latest transcription posted is one of my very favorite Marfa Mondays interviews, with Rock Art Foundation Executive Director Greg Williams, recorded last August 2014 at Meyers Spring ranch near Dryden, Texas-- just a scoonch...

Ignacio Solares' Short Story "Victoriano's Deliriums" Translated by Yours Truly in the Lampeter Review

This issue #11 of The Lampeter Review includes a masterful short story by one of Mexico's greatest writers, Ignacio Solares.Ignacio SolaresJust out, the new issue of the Lampeter Review on magic realism and Latin America, edited by Tony Kendrew, which includes...

Transcript of the Marfa Mondays Podcast #16: "Tremendous Forms: Paul V. Chaplo on Finding Composition in the Landscape"

Marfa Mondays 16: "Tremendous Forms: Paul V. Chaplo on Finding Composition in the Landscape"  was posted as podcast (listen in anytime on podomatic or iTunes) back in January, but the transcript has just been posted here.I'm aiming to post transcripts of all my podcast...