Julia Reed, author of The House on First Street and Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena among other books, was a big hit Saturday afternoon at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in Grapevine. By the time Reed...
The fifth annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference got off to an inspirational start earlier tonight, as Paul Theroux presented a keynote address that was both thoughtful and thought-provoking. Mayborn director Mitch Land introduced Theroux as "the nation's foremost travel...
Paul Theroux is one of the highlights of this weekend's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. He'll also be speaking at noon Thursday on KERA-FM's Think. Ahead of all that, Mayborn Writer-in-Residence George Getschow interviewed Theroux for the new issue of MAYBORN...
The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference is offering $15,000 in prizes to narrative writers who take part in the annual gathering. Personal essays, reporting-and-research-based narratives and book manuscripts are eligible. The best work will be published in the journal Ten Spurs,...
As always when writing about the Mayborn, I really wanted to spin this note as a narrative: "Feeling fatigued yet doggedly determined to serve the readers of Texas, the editor cracked his knuckles, sipped his coffee and faced his computer."...
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