The Texas Observer, May 11th, 2001
Belle Lettres Blues BY DON GRAHAM In the bar in the Menger Hotel in San Antonio last year, after the annual banquet of the Texas Institute of Letters was over and all its revels ended, I was talking to a Texas writer who was bemoaning his bad luck at having just published a novel he knew didn't stand a chance in next year's fiction contest. The reason: His book would be up against Steve Harrigan's Gates of the Alamo, a novel that my writer friend had reviewed and pronounced "damned good." I agreed. Harrigan's novel, which was receiving national attention, looked like a shoo-in. But as things...
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