Tom Dodge Talks About Texas: Radio Vignettes and Other Observations 1989-1999 - Paperback

by Tom Dodge (Author)

Tom Dodge is at his best when he talks about Texas. This collection of writings over the past decade includes his most poignant and provocative National Public Radio vignettes as well as longer pieces from newspapers and magazines. Here are the wry, sometimes ironic, observations on all things Texas his listeners are used to. His insights include a unique analysis of junkyards, railroads, bookstores, horned toads, sandy-land farms, and his grandmother's homemade grape jelly.

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The lyrical writing of Tom Dodge provides Texas and its people a spokesman of the highest order. Reading him ranks right up there with sipping a cool one on a warm summer evening. It gets no better. . . .
Carlton Stowers
Two-time Edgar Award winning author for "Careless Whispers" and "To the Last Breath"
"Tom Dodge is the voice of Texas. He speaks for top dogs, underdogs, yellow dogs, and for all those who hold in their hearts a vision of Texas as a prairie paradise. Tom Dodge is the John Henry Faulk of his day. He has humor, heart, and wisdom, all of it of the earth".
Lee Cullum
Author of "Genius Came Early"
Political analyst on the News Hour With Jim Lehrer
Columnist with the Dallas Morning News
"Tom Dodge's writing keenly puts a reader into places physically and intellectually. It's almost like you are there and can read the emotions flashing from his eyes as he observes and records the scenes. He's powerful".
Jon McConal
Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist, [John McConal's Texas]
Tom Dodge is a commentator for National Public Radio station KERA in Dallas and the author of "Oedipus Road: Searching for a Father in a Mother's Fading Memory"; "A Generation of Leaves: Greek Lyrics of Love and Death"; and "A Literature of Sports". He is a member of The Texas Institute of Letters. He and his wife, children, and grandchildren live in Midlothian, Texas.