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Editor in Chief, Texas Monthly // formerly Esquire/GQ/Men's Health/Popular Mechanics // author, Works Well with Others
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Growing Up, Dallas Was an Enigma. Then I Discovered a Strange Movie by David Byrne.

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By Ross McCammon Verified
| Texas Monthly Verified
The way home from my day care in Oak Lawn to our house, in Oak Cliff, involved avoiding the miserable traffic on Interstate 35 and instead snaking through the northwest corner of downtown Dallas. My mom would drive past the former Texas School Book Depository, right over the X on Elm Street. I don’t remember ever not knowing that an actual president was shot in that exact spot, and that what happened right there changed the world.
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The Rio Grande’s Story Runs Deep. It Took an Issue to Tell.

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By Ross McCammon Verified
| Texas Monthly Verified
The journey that led to this issue began with a simple question, posed to the Texas Monthly editorial staff in a meeting about a year ago: How about we do something big? When we decided to focus on the Rio Grande—not the increasingly politicized border it defines but the river itself—we weren’t sure exactly where we were going. So we recruited two first-rate guides: writer Jack Herrera and photographer Jordan Vonderhaar.
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Why We’re Relaunching Texas Monthly Press

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By Ross McCammon Verified
| Texas Monthly Verified
The most poignant words in Bud Shrake’s 1972 novel, Strange Peaches, are spoken by an obnoxious TV producer who barely figures in the plot. The book’s hero, John Lee Wallace, is an actor who inexplicably walks away from his starring role on the fictional hit series Six Guns Across Texas. Wallace complains that the show isn’t realistic enough, and the executive upbraids him. “This show is not about Texas, as you were intelligent enough to perceive. This show is about America,” he says.
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