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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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Off a Back-Road Texas Highway, an Outsider Artist Builds His Wonderland

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By Michael Agresta Verified
| Texas Monthly Verified
Driving along a minor rural highway dotted with cattle operations, about fifty miles east of San Antonio, the weary traveler sees a vision. The Virgin Mary, surrounded by colorful orbs, hovers above the brush. Beside her float rows of other concrete angel statues, which loom alongside crosses and spinning wheels decked with LEDs, crystal plates, and indescribable shapes formed out of colored glass.
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Forget ‘Friday Night Lights.’ This Photo Book Captures the True Permian Basin.

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By Michael Agresta Verified
| Texas Monthly Verified
As anyone who’s driven the stretch of Interstate 20 from Midland to Odessa can attest, there’s a lot of monotony in that landscape. Yet beneath that monotony, there’s also a certain inhuman, sinister beauty, less seen than felt. And beneath the beauty? Oil, gas, and a whole lot of money to be made.
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Live From Austin: Behind the Curtain of ‘Saturday Night Live’

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| Texas Monthly Verified
The first thing you see when you walk inside the Harry Ransom Center, on the University of Texas at Austin campus, is the Gutenberg Bible, one of only twenty remaining from the fifteenth-century holy book’s first print run. The atmosphere is hushed, reverent, and scrupulously climate-controlled, as befits one of the top archival collections in the world. Just past Gutenberg, there’s the world’s earliest surviving photograph.
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