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This January marks the hundredth anniversary of the Porvenir Massacre of 1918, a dark event in West Texas history. This event was one of the many clashes…

On tonight’s West Texas Talk, a conversation with Lannan writer-in-residence Chinelo Okparanta. Okparanta Under the Udala Trees (2015) and Happiness, Like…

On tonight’s West Texas Talk, we revisit our 2017 conversation with Charlotte Reemts, a research and monitoring ecologist with the Nature Conservancy in…

Ashley Rowe came to Marfa after starting her career in Toronto, Canada. After taking a break from her home country, she ended up in far West Texas and…

On this episode we talk with Jane Fraser. She’s the president of the stuttering foundation, a non-profit that provides the resources for the prevention of…

Laura Wilson’s book Watt Matthews of Lambshead has the best opening sentence of any Texas book Lonn Taylor knows of - That Sentence? “Watt Matthews is 90…

On this episode of West Texas Talk, Diana Nguyen talks to Johnnie Bernhard, a former journalist and teacher turned author. They discuss her first novel, A…

On tonight’s West Texas Talk, we speak with journalist Jennifer Hiller, who writes about oil and gas for the San Antonio Express-News. Hiller started on…

On this edition of West Texas Talk, we sit down with Carrie Fussell. Carrie is a member of the Austin-based group Calliope Musicals, a group that is known…

On this edition of West Texas Talk, a conversation with Joel Hernandez, known to Marfa music fans as K A S H M I R. Joel began producing music as a…