Letters at 3AM

Austin's Best Novelist

"...of saying. It will soon be 40 years since Billy Lee Brammer (1929-1978) published The Gay Place, written while..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

The Duchess of Palms

Remembering Texas trailblazer Nadine Eckhardt

"...snapshot barely scratches the surface of Nadine Ellen Cannon Brammer Eckhardt's extraordinary life, which ended in Austin on Dec...."

Jan. 18, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Carnival Ah!

ACC's central campus becomes a cultural extravaganza of music, theatre, and more

"...in the 1950s: The Political and Literary Landscapes of Billy Lee Brammer (Friday, 5pm, Mainstage Theater). Co-sponsored by ACC's..."

April 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Not All of Me Will Die:
Remembering Joe Watson

In remembrance of The Brick Row Book Shop's Joe Watson

"...to a minor regional novelist by the name of Billy Lee Brammer...."

Oct. 23, 2010 Books Post by Sidney Brammer

Legends of Texas Letters Reflect on 'The Gay Place'

ACC's Carnival ah! hosts a Billy Lee Brammer retrospective

"...occasion of the 40th anniversary of the publication of Billy Lee Brammer's The Gay Place, the Chronicle's own Michael..."

March 31, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Friends and Family Gather to Honor Activist Nadine Eckhardt

Eulogies and memories at Saengerrunde Hall

"...Nadine’s Restaurant, where Nadine and two daughters – Sidney Brammer and Sarah Eckhardt (then managing the restaurant) – cheered..."

Jan. 23, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Feminist Flirt

Kate X got to chat Ms. Steinem up-close and personal.

"...She proceeded to inform the crowd that Billy Lee Brammer's book by the same name about a..."

Sept. 6, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Point Austin: Explaining Austin

Understanding Austin requires a cultural primer

"...Austin. Austin got there first; the city portrayed in Billy Lee Bram­mer's The Gay Place (1961) is already at..."

March 15, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Page Two

If he were CEO, and not governor, of Texas, Rick Perry's lazy disloyalty would never be tolerated; look for new "Postmarks" online daily; Screens Editor Kimberley Jones decamps for graduate school; and we honor the righteous life of Marjorie Hershey.

"...would have long, hysterical telephone conversations. "Mah-Gie!!" Annie would gleefully proclaim when her phone calls were answered. When Hershey..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column by Louis Black

The Roots of the Left

Scholz Garden recalls a storied political and cultural past.

"...That's how Billy Lee Brammer sets the scene in The Gay Place,..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Family and Friends Honor Activist/Writer Nadine Eckhardt

Farewell to the Duchess of Palms

"...who died Dec. 8. As Eckhardt’s eldest daughter Sidney Brammer put it, “It's impossible for us to limit her..."

Jan. 14, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Eckhardt Father and Daughter Day at Scholz

A centennial celebration provides platform to stump for county judge

"...to the era of The Gay Place, the 1961 Billy Lee Brammer novel set in Austin at a time..."

Oct. 4, 2013 News Feature by Amy Smith

Res Publica

"...of The Flea Circus – a film based on Billy Lee Brammer's The Gay Place – followed by a..."

April 3, 2009 News Feature

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Out of Austin's primordial music past comes John Andrews with tales from the music hall of legends

"...the past, especially when it comes to music. Novelist Billy Lee Brammer's book review of The Improbable Rise of..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...Texas writers, including Larry L. King, Willie Morris, and Billy Lee Brammer, as well as some of the nation's..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

A Gathering of Promises

UK POV on Texas's psychedelic birth

"...stars-to-be Gilbert Shelton and Jack Jackson (Jaxon). Passing through: Billy Lee Brammer, spiraling downward from The Gay Place, and..."

July 24, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Oil's Well That Ends Well

"...J. Frank Dobie, Katherine Anne Porter, George Sessions Perry, Billy Lee Brammer, Elmer Kelton, Cormac McCarthy, and especially Larry..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

Perfidia

The first book in this new L.A. Quartet shows new depth, scope, and craftsmanship in James Ellroy's canon

"...imagined (Kay Lake, Preston Exley, Buzz Meeks, Bucky Bleichert, Lee Blanchard) – appear as their younger selves, making the..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology

Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology

"...of the 1890s. Fast forward to Chapter 1 from Billy Lee Brammer's The Gay Place. Then, take in some..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Books Review by R.U. Steinberg

Qmmunity: The Gay Place Rides Again

Original Chron legend Kate X Messer talks "Qmmunity"/"The Gay Place" origins

"..."The Gay Place" – so named to tribute Billy Lee Brammer's tri-novella masterpiece on Texas politics – had..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Column by James Scott

Headlines

"...known for her political acumen, her marriages to novelist Billy Lee Brammer and Congressman Bob Eckhardt, and her daughter,..."

Dec. 14, 2018 News Feature

Qmmunity

Like community, but queerer

"...While she called it "Gay Place," in ode to Billy Lee Brammer's book about midcentury Texas politics, she –..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

UT Professor on the Making of Texas Film Epic Giant

Don Graham's Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film

"...the film's cultural echoes. First on the list is Billy Lee Brammer's collected novellas The Gay Place, one of..."

April 13, 2018 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

Gay Place: I'm Not Gonna Miss You

Gay Place bids you adieu

"...course, a most delicate slice of gratitude goes to Billy Lee Brammer (and his lovely heirs who deigned not..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Column by Kate X Messer

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...too tired to bring up John Henry Faulk or Billy Lee Brammer or Barbara Jordan or Robert Rauschenberg or..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

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

"...Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and the guiding shadow of Billy Lee Brammer. Former classical scholar, onetime sportswriter, notorious Texas..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Res Publica

"...NADINE ECKHARDT The former wife of acclaimed Texas novelist Billy Lee Brammer, and later of U.S. congressman Bob Eckhardt,..."

March 20, 2009 News Feature

Noriega vs. McMurrey

Noriega and McMurrey go to the mat

"...In Billy Lee Brammer's classic 1961 novel about Texas politics and..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Austin – the Only Gay Place

Travis defeated Prop. 2, but the rest of the state wasn't even close

"...When Billy Lee Brammer named his landmark novel about Texas statehouse..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader

Jesus Christ! What are these words? Hincty, goudge, donicker, furze, rick, pecksniff, flapdoodle fantod, tumerling? What kind of screwball whips out stuff like this?

"...our forebears trapped in the stop-time aspic of old hillbilly records," "a trash band playing moldy show tunes to..."

April 22, 2005 Books Review by Brant Bingamon

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