Author May Cobb mines her East Texas roots for ‘The Hunting Wives’
She discusses writing about women, upending stereotypes and her love of ‘Heathers.’
Author May Cobb was born in Dallas, grew up in Longview and now lives in Austin. Her new novel, The Hunting Wives, is her second thriller, after her 2018 debut, Big Woods. (Steve Noreyko)
Dallas-born writer May Cobb upends some Texas stereotypes in her summer thriller
The Hunting Wives, which comes out May 18. Set in a fictional East Texas town, the novel follows a woman who leaves a high-powered job in Chicago looking for a simpler life back where she grew up. What she finds instead is a clique of grown-up, gun-toting Mean Girls and murder. We talked to Cobb who lives in Austin now about growing up in Longview, writing women’s lives and her love of the film
Roll on, Mississippi
W. Ralph Eubanks considers the literature, landscape, and legacy of the Magnolia State in âA Place Like Mississippi.â
photograph by w. ralph eubanks
âOn these Mississippi roads, the past and the present exist side by side. The past is there for all to see, yet perhaps is only noticeable to those who still remember it. Perhaps it is not the past Mississippi is losing on this landscape. Instead we are witnessing how the past and future are slowly becoming knitted together into one seamless garment.â â W. Ralph Eubanks, A Place Like Mississippi
From a Yazoo City cemetery to Rowan Oak, on the banks of the Mississippi River and in the shade-dappled heart of Piney Woods, on the paper-scented shelves of Square Books and the sun-blasted dirt of the Delta, author W. Ralph Eubanks has searched for â and found â Mississippi. The author has confronted its myths and its most mundane realities, sought out its soul in story and song. The r
National Weather Service: Tuesday storms produced 8 tornadoes, more severe weather Sunday Gabriela Szymanowska, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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As Mississippi residents recover from the latest round of severe weather, with the National Weather Service in Jackson confirming Tuesday s storms produced eight tornadoes, more storms are expected Sunday.
The latest forecast by the National Weather Service in Jackson includes heavy rainfall with thunderstorms for mostly western parts of Mississippi Sunday afternoon into the night.
Northwestern parts of the state, including areas around Yazoo City, Cleveland, Oxford and Ripley, could have severe storms capable of producing 60 mph damaging winds and small hail, according to the agency. Tornadoes cannot be ruled out.
Staying with family
LGBTQ-owned vacation options in Texas (and Eureka Springs)
If you are looking for someplace relatively close to home as in, say, somewhere in Texas to go on vacation, and you really want to spend your money at an LGBTQ-owned venue, here are a few options to choose from, offering everything from lap of luxury resort-style accommodations to primitive camping (in alphabetical order):
ABUNDANCE RETREAT
Houston power couple Tina Sabuco and Shellye Arnold celebrated their 8th anniversary with a relaxing getaway at a beautiful spot in Wimberly, Texas. They loved it so much, they purchased the property and named it Abundance Retreat.