The Texas Center for the Book is accepting submissions to its 25-2026 Letters About Literature Texas writing contest until 6 p.m. Jan 26.

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As you finish up your manuscript, the next step is often shopping it around to potential publishers. While this can be a ...

Last week, Larry Cohen published a highly-partisan, insulting, condescending letter to the editor criticizing Mercury columnist Jerry Shenk for his piece entitled, “The Seditious Six.” Mr. Shenk ...

Tobi Coventry is invisible, yet he is here. A debut novelist writing about sexuality, desire and, inadvertently, masculinity: the kind of man, we’ve been told for the past five years, no longer exists ...

During the pandemic, I provided counseling for several health care providers. These dedicated medical professionals faced overwhelming stress due to: Patients dying at an increasingly higher rate.

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Mr. Howard, a retired book editor, is the author of the forthcoming “The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature.” Critical discourse concerning the state of literature in ...

Imagine this. The lieutenant governor of Nevada, Stavros Anthony, submitted three bills to the Legislature last session, and all three were shot down (Friday Review-Journal). According to the story, ...