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This story collection--a finalist for the annual first fiction award presented by the Texas Institute of Letters--explores Austin, Texas, a city famous for music, football, and drunken fun frolics-- and famous too for traffic jams, anomie, and dislocation. In Long Time Ago Good, Lowell Mick White imaginatively recreates this city, this region. Here is a folksy reporter covering a chitlins cook-off, a ragged cab driver fighting for his life, a lonely jewelrymaker focusing too much on the past--a high tech worker losing her job, a bureaucrat looking for something more. These stories are...

Told with wry black humor and bent irony and weirdly oddball hope, The Messes We Make of Our Lives explores the ways its characters face absurd snags--blunders, problems, messes--and the often complicated ways they exhibit resiliency and wisdom in overcoming and moving on--and living.

Professed is a novel filled with the struggles and rivalries and oddities and many weirdnesses American higher education--favor-dodging, ex-girlfriend avoiding, grade-dreading, plagiarist-busting, dissertation-reading, office-mate annoying, litter-box spilling, book-stealing, unprofessional forbidden lusting, unprofessional forbidden lusting-fulfilling, lost cat-chasing, wrist-breaking, inopportune body-betraying, boring boyfriend-dumping planning, dead professor missing, committee-meeting texting, student misfiling, classroom failing, hidden Confederate-history uncovering, book-writing,...

An anthology of poetry and prose by the award-winning instructors and participants of the 2014 Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop, which met in Seadrift, Texas. Writers include Lee Meitzen Grue, Lowell Mick White, Kathryn Lane, and Diane Wilson.