Cherokee Memorialize Struggle in East Texas

Cherokee-Texas Militia Battle Memorial Today In Van Zandt County

"REDLAND — The American Indian Cultural Society will hold a memorial ceremony at 4 p.m. today at the Van Zandt County site of a battle between Cherokee tribes and Texas militia." 

Read more at

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080712/NEWS01/807120317
 

Joe R. Lansdale Interview

INTERVIEW WITH JOE R. LANSDALE

BY COREY REDECOP, POSTED BY MATT STAGGS

http://entertheoctopus.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/interview-with-joe-r-lansdale/


This prolific Texas author of light and dark is notable. The interview is preceded by a bio.

"Author Joe R. Lansdale has won six Bram Stoker horror awards, the American Mystery Award, The Booklist Editor’s Award, the Critic’s Choice award, the “Shot in the Dark” International Crime Writer’s Award, a British Fantasy Award, and a New York Times Notable Book Award. He has an enormous body of work including teleplays, novels, short story collections, comic books and more, including the novella “Bubba Ho-Tep”, later adapted by director Don Coscarelli into the movie of the same name starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. Lansdale also holds several black belts in a number of martial arts, and is the founder of his own martial arts style, Shen Chuan. A resident of Nacogdoches, Texas, he divides his time between his family, his writing career and running his own martial arts school."

One of the interesting questions:
"In your chapter in “On Writing Horror” you talk about the role of the writer’s environment in the development of his or her voice. East Texas has been a major “character” in your writing for a long while. Was there ever a time when you rebelled against letting it color your work? What brought you around to accepting and celebrating it?"

Apparently Lansdale has spent his time beyond visiting the Appleby watchtower.

His homepage is http://www.joerlansdale.com/

His bibliography includes these earliest works:

1980:
Act of Love: A thriller. Hardcover. Kensington Press (NY).
Act of Love: A thriller. Trade paperback. Kensington Press (NY).
1981:
Act of Love: A thriller. Mass-market paperback. Zebra (NY). ISBN 89083735
1983:
The Nightrunners: A dark suspense novel. Hardcover
Texas Night Riders: A Western novel. [Published under the pseudonym, Ray Slater] Mass-market paperback. Leisure Books (NY).
1986:
Dead in the West: A horror novel. Trade paperback. Space and Time (NY). ISBN 0917053044.
Magic Wagon: A Western novel with fantastic elements. Hardcover. Doubleday (NY). ISBN 0385232691.

Mark G. Mitchell - Texas Illustrator

http://www.markgmitchell.com/

Mark Mitchell is an excellent illustrator. His webpage gives you a partial introduction. E..G.

Raising La Belle

Seeing Stars: McDonald Observatory, Its Science and Astronomers

The Mustang Professor: The Story of J. Frank Dobie

Pulpwood Queens Book Club

If the phrase "Pulpwood Queens Book Club"

is news to you, be informed that it's a runaway sawmill of East Texas (and now world wide) women who read books and talk. One of my Jefferson-native mother's book recommendations was Hershey's "Hiroshima." Apparently the women folks there read with a voracious criticism, and speak up in public about it. Seems it all got started in a beauty parlor; wouldn't you know it. And you though "Steel Magnolias" was the highpoint of that cultural nexus!

http://www.pulpwoodqueen.com/