Jeff Salamon

Jul 24, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Andrew Graybill |Jeff Salamon

As a high school student in the mid-1980s, I became fascinated with the Vietnam War. Perhaps this was because at the time I was not much younger than many of the troops had been when they were drafted. Or maybe I was beguiled by movies like Apocalypse Now, the Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, and Platoon, which had kept the war roiling in the public consciousness. I read books by Michael Herr, Tim O’Brien, and Neil Sheehan, and even had a map of Southeast Asia taped to my closet door.

Jun 20, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Jessica Goudeau |Jeff Salamon

Austin writer Jessica Goudeau’s second book, We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family’s Mythmaking and Migration, which was published this week by Viking, is a deeply researched examination of the lives—and lies—of Goudeau’s extended clan, who first came to Texas in the 1820s. When my classmates asked me, as a new fourth grader in Memphis, Tennessee, recently transplanted from San Antonio, if I knew any Texas Rangers, they were probably thinking of the baseball team.

Dec 6, 2023 | texasmonthly.com | Jeff Salamon

If you were intrigued by Texas Monthly‘s recent story about Conroe’s Defiance Press & Publishing, you might want to check out the works of some of Texas’s other independent publishers. Houston’s Arte Público Press published the first edition of Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street forty years ago and is still launching the careers of Latino authors.

Dec 6, 2023 | dfwliving.com | Jeff Salamon

If you were intrigued by Texas Monthly‘s recent story about Conroe’s Defiance Press & Publishing, you might want to check out the works of some of Texas’s other independent publishers. Houston’s Arte Público Press published the first edition of Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street forty years ago and is still launching the careers of Latino authors.

Nov 7, 2023 | texasmonthly.com | Jeff Salamon

Oliver Bonds, the protagonist of Austin writer Owen Egerton’s third novel, Hollow (Soft Skull Press, July 11), is a modern-day Job: a beloved religious studies professor at the University of Texas who, after his toddler son dies, hits bottom—and believes he might find some sort of solace in an undiscovered land at the center of the earth.