Known as "The Emerald City," Dallas has its own rich heritage peculiar to its founding on the prairies and the Trinity River, and editor Frances Brannen Vick has collected a cornucopia of all things Big D in "Literary Dallas," the third in TCU Press's "literary cities" series.
There is C. C. Slaughter who helped make Dallas a banking center; John Rosenfield, who made his city a haven for performing arts; Evelyn Oppenheimer, who made her career reviewing books; not to mention Frank X. Tolbert, both Chili King and writer.
Natalie Ornish writes of the merchants who made Dallas a city...

Almost every journalist asks the subjects of profiles to tell the truth.
Only Mary Rogers requires them to "dance naked."
To Rogers, an award-winning columnist for the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram," that term signifies a pact between the writer, the subject and the reader: only when stories eliminate artifice and express honest beliefs and emotions can they merit attention and trust. It's a phrase and philosophy unique to Rogers, and as a result the stories in "Dancing Naked: Memorable Encounters with Unforgettable Texans" are unique, too. You've never read anything like them, and...