In Memoriam: Gary Cartwright

Time to "Turn Out the Lights" for the Texas Mad Dog writer

"...Gary Cartwright, Texas Monthly stalwart, author of the true-crime classic..."

March 2, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

That Wild Man

Gary Cartwright: The mad, mad, mad life of a Texas wordsmith

"...Thus begins Gary Cartwright's 1976 Texas Monthly profile of the state's most..."

June 26, 2015 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Can Lazarus Rise Again?

Gary Bradley faces bankruptcy, and Austin wonders if he'll survive and thrive one more time.

"...weeks ago, the more cynical folks keeping tabs on Gary Bradley's bankruptcy were giving odds that the high-rolling developer..."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Texas Book Festival 2015: The Mighty 300

Authors for Fest 20 include Lethem, Lemony, Pitts, Diggs, Hart

"...What event could bring together Gary Hart and John Sununu, Jonathan Lethem and Lemony Snicket,..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...Lights: Chronicles of Texas During the 80s and 90sby Gary Cartwright..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Notes on Mad Dogs

If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."

"...Texan, outlaw manner. Members include Texas Monthly senior editor Gary Cartwright and his wife Phyllis; novelist and screenwriter Bud..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...group of tough new Texas writers including Peter Gent, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and the guiding shadow of Billy..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Postscripts

How to get Book Sense and why you'll be seeing lots of Texas Monthly in book form this fall.

"...character. It was possible he had made a mistake," Gary Cartwright wrote in "Is Jay J. Armes for Real?"..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Just Can't Get Enough

More Summer Reading

"...I'm not the target audience for Gary Cartwright's new book, HeartWiseGuy: How to Live the Good..."

June 12, 1998 Books Feature

Postscripts

Upcoming events in Austin's literary life.

"...at Book Woman on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 7pm... Gary Cartwright's recent collection of articles, Turn Out the Lights:..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Joe O'Connell's Top Reads of 2015

Paradise Sky and The Best I Recall head a list of stellar Lone Star books

"...Gary Cartwright's memoir The Best I Recall (UT Press) was..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

1998 Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...& Times of Austin's Mad Dogs Moderator: Jan Reid; Gary Cartwright, Jay Dunston Milner, Bud Shrake..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Books Feature

In Memoriam: Jan Reid

Remembering the legendary author and Texas Monthly writer

"...writers – Larry L. King, Stephen Harrigan, Prudence Mackintosh, Gary Cartwright, William Broyles, Jr., Al Reinart, Paul Burka –..."

Sept. 21, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

When Did the Single-Family Home Go From Being the American Dream to an Urbanist Nightmare?

One policy wonk's view of how we got here

"...One catalyst for sprawl was explored by Gary Cartwright in a 1984 Texas Monthly article about the..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Learning From Our Mistakes

Free, but not exonerated, Fran and Dan Keller are the victims of a continuing injustice

"...Texas Monthly publishes "The Innocent and the Damned" by Gary Cartwright, the first detailed re-examination of the Keller prosecution...."

March 11, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: A Taste of Freedom

Thanks to those who fought for justice – the fight continues

"...a hand in this important victory. In April 1994, Gary Cartwright wrote an important story ("The Innocent and the..."

Dec. 6, 2013 News Column by Michael King

The Insider's Outsider Guide to Texas

Remembering Bud Shrake

"...to an article Shrake's friend and Texas Monthly journalist Gary Cartwright wrote in the April 2000 issue of that..."

May 15, 2009 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postscripts

Upcoming literary events in Austin.

"...Free… Texas Monthly Editor Evan Smith and TM writers Gary Cartwright, Skip Hollandsworth, and Mimi Swartz will be at..."

May 25, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Femmes Fatales: Rounding up Austin's Women of Mystery

"...Monthly. Walker describes Cates as "a sort of female Gary Cartwright, but prettier." Walker mischievously explains the impact of..."

May 2, 1997 Books Feature by Anna Hanks

Summer Reading

"...colorless Houston suburb of Spring, I liked to sneak Gary Cartwright's collection Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter off my..."

June 9, 2006 Books Feature by Marrit Ingman

Postscripts

Events

"...reading excerpts of their works. Four of those authors, Gary Cartwright, Jan Reid, Elizabeth Crook, and the certifiably insane..."

April 17, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

A League of Their Own

"...in Harper's about rodeos, and at the same time, Gary Cartwright had a story in Life magazine about rodeos...."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Pride of the Yankees?

Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.

"...quiet, dignified man of letters, Gregory Peck to Broyles' Gary Cooper and Smith's James Cagney. Beyond his personal predilections,..."

July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Texas Writers Month Events

"...Austin Writers' League with David Lindsey, D. Marion Wilkinson, Gary Cartwright, Shia Barnett, Tara and Jim Holley, Deborah Hamilton-Lynne,..."

May 15, 1998 Books Feature

Fightin' Words

Rich Oppel and Mike Levy Spar on Paper:

"...Davis, Diane Ollis, Gregory Curtis, Paul Burka, Evan Smith, Gary Cartwright, Anne Dingus, Robert Draper, Skip Hollandsworth, Joe Nick..."

Jan. 17, 1997 News Feature

Headlines

"...Gary Cartwright, a Texas Monthly writer and editor for nearly..."

Feb. 24, 2017 News Feature

Keller Case Returns to Court

Hearing in Austin ritual abuse case questions evidence of sexual abuse

"...were compounded by a subsequent Texas Monthly article by Gary Cartwright. Mouw recalled that after the Nauert presentation, he..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Can Keller Conviction Stand Without Physical Evidence?

Hearing in Austin ritual abuse case questions evidence of sexual abuse

"...which were compounded by a subsequent article written by Gary Cartwright for Texas Monthly, and then later reinforced by..."

Aug. 27, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Range War at the Dobie Ranch

A bulldozer's intrusion onto 'enchanted' property uncovers the struggles of UT's historic retreat for writers

"...of distinguished writers, including Sandra Cisneros, Dagoberto Gilb, and Gary Cartwright. But by 2007, the land had fallen into..."

June 21, 2013 News Feature by Amy Gentry

Satanic Hand Signals?

May 20, 2009 Postmarks

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