Writer @TexasMonthly, @TexasObserver, Slate, Atlantic, Wired, T+L, WSJ. Teacher @StanfordCSP. I read, much of the night, and go north in the summer.
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Michael Agresta retweeted
New: AG-elect Johnson might end Paxton's Tylenol/autism lawsuit.
“Sounds to me like some partisan bullshit they did to get attention,” he told @BLaw.
Johnson also to scrutinize outside contracts.
Paxton impeachment lawyer @TonyBuzbee2 has 4. #txlege
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Michael Agresta retweeted
when he signed the civil rights act, lbj famously told his press secretary bill moyers “we may have lost the south for your lifetime—and mine” and my brother pointed out bill moyers died last year.
ALT wikipedia page reading “Billy Don Moyers (June 5, 1934 – June 26, 2025) was an American journalist and political commentator who served as the eleventh White House Press Secretary from 1965 to 1967 during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. He also served as the de facto White House Chief of Staff for a brief period from 1964 until 1965.”
My latest for @texasmonthly on one of the most viral Mexican art events in recent memory, and what the artist has in store this week in San Antonio.
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My latest for the magazine
With his weathered Hasselblad, Dan Winters has shot portraits of convicts, rock stars, and David Foster Wallace. 📸 texasmonthly.com/culture/dan…
I am now welcoming your anonymous thoughts and feedback, ideally constructive but if not okay, on anything about me at admonymous.co/mike-agresta
My latest for Texas Monthly is featured in Hyperallergic’s weekly Required Reading: hyperallergic.com/required-r…
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Inside John Dilandro's House of Lights you'll find hundreds of garden ornaments, religious figurines, gas station signs, weather vanes, license plates, trophies, and especially old-style, glass telephone insulators assorted in hodgepodge constellations. texasmonthly.com/culture/out…
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On this day in 1933, author Cormac McCarthy was born.
In 2023, a few Texas writers reflect on what McCarthy meant to them and to the state. Read here: texasmonthly.com/arts-entert…
My latest art story from deep, almost too deep, in the heart of Texas. A sign out front says: "Welcome to look. Watch for rattlesnakes." There's a horror barn, graves for unknown cowboys, and a huge fire-ant nest decorated with dinosaurs (called "Jurassic Park"). Worth the trip.
On family land in rural Guadalupe County, John Dilandro fires cannons, mingles with snakes, and turns his past into a folk art shrine. ✨🐍 texasmonthly.com/culture/out…
Here’s my latest for @TexasMonthly, on a compelling photography project capturing extraction-industry landscapes on the drive from Midland to Odessa.
My latest for @TexasMonthly is this review of the SNL exhibition drawn from Lorne Michaels's personal archive at the HRC in Austin.
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Included: How the "dick in a box" fits next to the Gutenberg Bible, what makes a show like this more than a memorabilia tour, and some pretty serious omissions in how the HRC deals with the original Sinead O'Connor pope photo (whose is it???)
My latest for @TexasMonthly is on newly discovered biographical details about Rauschenberg forcing a rethinking of his approach to materials and his relationship to his home state. Nice work by @MenilCollection on both the research and the beautiful show.
The link
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I reviewed this underrated gem of a first novel by a key figure in the Texas literary landscape. Check it out!
New from @magresta: José Skinner’s The Search Committee paints, scene by scene, a rich regional landscape as the story twists and turns through this new, fast-paced satire of Texas academia at the border. texasobserver.org/the-search…
Michael Agresta retweeted
New from @magresta: José Skinner’s The Search Committee paints, scene by scene, a rich regional landscape as the story twists and turns through this new, fast-paced satire of Texas academia at the border. texasobserver.org/the-search…