Texas Highways Magazine

Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas, encourages recreational travel within Texas and tells the Texas story to readers around the world. Renowned for its photography, statewide events coverage, top weekend excursions, off-the-beaten path discoveries, and scenic destinations, Texas Highways helps readers discover the treasures of the Lone Star State.

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Wild Style • EXPLORE BASTROP OUTDOORS WITH OUR FRIENDS AT TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE MAGAZINE

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Curtain Call • Intermission Bookshop in Brownwood sets the stage for stellar reads

Where the Characters Roam • Authors have written the Texas landscape into their work for centuries

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By the Book • Follow the stories in Texas’ sixth-largest city

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NIGHT OF THE LITERATI • FIRST LIGHT BOOKS SHOWCASES AUSTIN AS A DESTINATION FOR THE WRITERLY KIND

FOR THE RECORD • STATE LIBRARIAN GLORIA MERAZ BELIEVES LIBRARIES ARE THE GREAT EQUALIZER

WESTERN STAR • ELMER KELTON AND HIS TEXAS CONTEMPORARIES FOREVER CHANGED THE GENRE

A FORM OF RANCHING • THE CARETAKER OF LARRY MCMURTRY’S FAMOUS BOOK COLLECTION SCOUTS FOR NEW STOCK

A Way With Words • The indie bookstores, storytelling champions, and literary destinations turning the page in Texas

Open Minds • Conversations cascade at the Comfort Quarterly Reading

Shhh … • Introverts find camaraderie at Silent Book Club

Word Up • LESSER-KNOWN FESTIVALS PROMOTE THE JOY OF READING

Better Half • A reader gets lost in the stacks of Texas’ largest used bookstore chain

Top-Shelf • The associate director of University of Texas Press has visited almost every independent bookstore in the state. These are her favorites.

Beyond the Bookends • Explore bookish gifts that support local shops and makers

The Write Stuff • Literary retreats allow scribes of all stripes the space to create

Treasure Troves • Central Texas is home to two respected literary archives that preserve the papers of some of the world’s most influential writers

Fine Print • FAMOUS AUTHORS’ LANDMARKS

Commuted Sentences • Texas’ incarcerated population frees itself through literary programs

High Gloss • MAGAZINE SHOPS CATER TO NICHE TASTES IN PRINT MEDIA

HAVE BOOKS, WILL TRAVEL • THE MOBILE LIBRARY RENAISSANCE HAS SHIFTED INTO HIGH BRINGING ESSENTIAL BOOKS, FILMS, INTERNET AND EVEN PET RABBITS TO TOWN

REINVENTING THE WHEEL • OTHER BOOKMOBILE CONCEPTS TO CHECK OUT AROUND THE STATE

Word Play • Four Texas authors changing the literary landscape at home and beyond

Lawrence Wright • * * * THE ELDER STATESMAN * * *

LaToya Watkins • * * * THE STORYTELLER * * *

Lucas Schaefer • * * * THE BREAKOUT * * *

May Cobb • * * * THE DRAMA QUEEN* * *

FUEL • Hobbit Cafe’s Morgoth Burger consists of four beef patties, bacon, boudin, and more, Page 80.

Leave It to the Prose • Native Son introduces a new chapter for downtown Canton

Tolkien Gesture • A once-vegetarian trailblazer still feels novel after more than 50 years

CALENDAR • THIS MONTH IN TEXAS: EVENTS, FESTIVALS, ARTS, AND CULTURE

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