You Can't Go Home Again

Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett on why James Crumley, whose mystery The Final Country has recently been published, is the best writer from Texas to disown the state.

"...Country, which is taken from the first lines of Billy Lee Brammer's classic Texas novel The Gay Place, finds..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

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."

"...Forty and a former Dallas Cowyboys wide receiver); Bill Brammer, author of The Gay Place; painter and sculptor Fletcher..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

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

Celebrated for the Least of Reasons

Chronicle reviewer Tom Doyal has took to writin' just like Larry L. King, the playwright behind The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (and much more, Doyal reveals, in his review of King's new book of letters).

"...including William Styron, Willie Morris, Bud Shrake, David Halberstam, Billy Lee Brammer, and others. Among the most revealing letters..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

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

Texas Tropes

Is Don Graham Really Texas' Literary Curmudgeon?

"...affirming that she "had the goods on funeral homes." Billy Lee Brammer, author of The Gay Place, is revealed..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Page Two

"...Roy Bedicheck, and Katherine Anne Porter through Gary Cartwright, Billy Lee Brammer, John Graves, and Molly Ivins to Mary..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Column by Louis Black

Media Clips

"...3. The Gay Place, Billy Lee Brammer..."

Aug. 25, 1995 News Column

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