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Grizzly Bear Members Are Indie-Rock Royalty, But What Does That Buy Them in 2012?

From left, Christopher Bear, Chris Taylor, Daniel Rossen, and Ed Droste. Grizzly Bear’s music videos have this habit of depicting the band members as suffering, blank and deadpan, through…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5648 words)

Portrait of the Artist as a Postman

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. For public distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, contact ccasey@texasmonthly.com for reprint information and fees. In July…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5350 words)

Going Gently Into That Good Night

A year after his mother's uncomfortable decline, a son asks: should the terminally ill have control over when and how they die? If you’re dying and don’t care to wait around for death,…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4451 words)

The Anointing

Anointings were eleventh-hour efforts—what you asked for after you’d asked for everything else.Image from Flickr via neilkrugSeven months into her husband’s depression, Diane…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3693 words)

How My Mother Disappeared

I should have known it would. That’s what a meatloaf is meant to do: make you believe the world is so forgiving a place that even an array of bits and pieces, all smashed up, can still find meaning…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (769 words)
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The House That Hova Built

By ZADIE SMITH | September 6, 2012 It’s difficult to know what to ask a rapper. It’s not unlike the difficulty (I imagine) of being a rapper. Whatever you say must be considered from at…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (884 words)
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On Keeping A Liary: Anais Nin, Autobiography, and the Lady Narcissism Debate

I have only lately determined to remember some of my early adventures. Till now I have always avoided them, even with a certain uneasiness. Now, when I am not only recalling them, but have actually…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5308 words)

Into the Cosmos

Sometime during the summer of 1986 I went with my family to see a circus version of Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita in an outdoor theatre in Kreuzberg, West Berlin. My only memory of the…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3242 words)

Venus and Serena Against the World

There’s video that exists of Venus and Serena Williams playing tennis when they were kids — 8 and 7, respectively — in the late ’80s, on unshaded but otherwise decent-looking public courts in…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6387 words)
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