Turn Out the Lights : : Chronicles of Texas during the 80s and 90s / / Gary Cartwright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Cartwright, Gary,
• MitwirkendeR: Draper, Robert,
• TeilnehmendeR: Draper, Robert.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

Whether the subject is Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, or his own leukemia-stricken son Mark, when it comes to looking at the world through another person's eyes, nobody does it better than Gary Cartwright. For over twenty-five years, readers of Texas Monthly have relied on Cartwright to tell the stories behind the headlines with pull-no-punches honesty and wry humor. His reporting has told us not just what's happened over three decades in Texas, but, more importantly, what we've become as a result. This book collects seventeen of Cartwright's best Texas Monthly articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, "My Most Unforgettable Year," about the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination. He ranges widely in these pieces, from the reasons for his return to Texas after a New Mexican exile to profiles of Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Along the way, he strolls through San Antonio's historic King William District; attends a Dallas Cowboys old-timers reunion and the Holyfield vs. Foreman fight; visits the front lines of Texas' new range wars; gets inside the heads of murderers, gamblers, and revolutionaries; and debunks Viagra miracles, psychic surgery, and Kennedy conspiracy theories. In Cartwright's words, these pieces all record "the renewal of my Texas-ness, a rediscovery of Texas after returning home."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1963 -- Back Home -- The Snootiest Neighborhood in Texas -- Meet the Binions -- The Sting -- Touch Me, Feel Me, Heal Me! -- The Bad Brother -- Gila Hell -- The Innocent and the Damned -- The Longest Ride of His Life -- Turn Out the Lights -- "I Was Mandarin . . ." -- How to Have Great Sex Forever -- The Last Roundup -- A Star Is Reborn -- The Real Deal Meets the Real Meal -- "Nothing to It" -- Willie at 65