#pharma magazines

[runedscope]

No it didn't bad time magazine the patent expired exactly when it was expected and the manufacturers for the generic where approved as expected. This has nothing to do with "stopgap measures" this shit was going to happen this way the day people knew when vyvanse patent would expire. Stupid piece of shit magazine

[magsubs]

Pharma Trends & Updates: Your Subscription to Success

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Our magazine is divided into four unique segments, each of which provides valuable insights and perspectives: Market: Stay current on the latest market trends, business developments, and regulatory updates affecting the pharmaceutical industry. From mergers and acquisitions to market analysis and forecasts, our Market segment provides you with the information you need to make sound strategic decisions. Management: Discover effective management tactics, leadership techniques, and best practices tailored to the pharmaceutical industry. Our Management category helps industry experts handle problems, optimise operations, and promote organisational success.

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[jstarkd00110]

American pharma magazine

A publication released by Ochre Media Pvt. Ltd. every Semiannual. It serves as the main information source for important executives at the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, both in print and digital media. Pharma Focus America looks at major issues and developments affecting the future of the pharmaceutical sector in America and the rest of the world.

To discuss advertising and sponsorship opportunities please contact Email : advertise@pharmafocusamerica.com Tel : +91 (0) 40 4961 4567

[witchofthesouls]

I like to think about different expressions of affection between frames and how it can either overlap or clash with others.

Example: Pharma and Revelation.

Similar to mecha with equipment alt-modes, medics tend to lean toward acts of service. They typically have a culture of high maintenance due to their own frames, especially with the massive workload and long hours.

Acts of care and appreciation include but not limited to:

Memorizing fuel preferences

Topping off favorite sealants

Massages

Touch ups on appearance to ensure immaculate image

Doing someone’s hand maintenance

Settle up the cot and/or keeping specific hospital staff bunks in a certain way (like extra pillows, a heated blanket, or tucking a current edition of a favorite magazine).

Seekerkin, however, tend to lean toward physicality as it's driven by their coding quirks since they're a highly social frame-type.

Shared personal space. Close ones and trine will realign their wings to set together if they're sitting side-by-side

Sharing a bed or resting upon each other

Grooming and eating together

Sparring

Marking

Interacting with very young or sick spark-kin

Bottom line, I find it hilarious that the Lost Light's medics and resident Seekerkin have no idea how to view these two.

Ambulon and Smokescreen have the unique experiences by being in both worlds, so they side-eye because it's such a strange mesh and clash, but it surprisingly works. (Those two mechs keep a good eye on the little family.)

Ratchet has been driven up the wall multiple times because Revelation refuses to be parted away from the surgeon. They're practically welded together. He wants to make sure nothing happens on his watch, whereas Revelation has practically joined the medbay crew by focusing on servo maintenance and upkeep.

First Aid thinks they're super clingy to each other, and is honestly surprised little clashes had happened between Ratchet and Pharma, outside the issues of Revelation.

Bluestreak almost shoots his shot because Revelation reads as available but immediately backs off since Pharma's face promises a really bad time.

[erasure-picnic]

One of Erasure’s most striking album covers is the one for Chorus (1991). How did the concept come about, and what do the images represent? If you’d like to know the story, keep reading.

The album covers vary by country and format, but in all cases, their heads are lit up in pink, and you can see the insides of their brains in vibrant technicolour. These visual concepts came from the group. After five years together, Clarke and Bell were feeling more connected than ever, and were looking to represent the strength of their bond in different ways. Andy Bell had wanted to capture their “auras” in photographs, and Vince Clarke was interested in illustrating the “electricity” generated between the two of them. 

To start off, Monica Curtin photographed the band members’ heads in silhouette, and they had brain scans done (the liner notes actually give thanks to the MRI Centre in London!). Clarke told Details magazine that he wanted to see “who had the biggest one”. And who did? According to Bell, they were “dead equal.”

When came time to assemble the cover, the designers (Me Company) made use of many innovative techniques. In a brilliant article for Classic Pop, designer Siân Cook–who was working for the Me Company at the time–explained the process. “The coloured areas inside the heads were colour photocopy collages, while the pink/purple auras around the outside of the heads were taken from images of Kirlian plant photography which were manipulated and wrapped around the silhouettes.” The medical theme was carried through in other ways; the subtle “e” pattern on the album cover and liner notes was “inspired by medicine packaging.”

In the liner notes, there are several stock images of happy, photogenic people enjoying their lives. Cook said that these photos referenced “big pharma promo brochures”. Andy Bell had more to add: “these pictures are Corporate America, or Corporate Anywhere”. To him, they represented a lifestyle that people were supposed to aspire to - which was a “farce”. If they were real, he joked, they’d feature “ugly people–like us!”

SOURCES:

Bardin, Brantley. “Erasure.” Details, Nov. 1991, p. 129. 

Chorus, 1991. Retrieved via the Internet Archive.

Dineley, Andrew. “Pop Art: Vince Clarke.” Classic Pop, Mar. 2021. Web article accessed 3 Aug. 2023. 

“Erasure Interview by Verónica Castro (La Movida, Mexico, 1991) .” La Movida, 1991, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ46ykCUbkQ. Video uploaded by bwlvideo on YouTube. Accessed 3 Aug. 2023. 

[raisinchallah]

you know very aggravating the same tendencies that made me so crazy about how people talked about adhd now being the dominant mode of communication about autism online is driving me nuts but i guess the only area thats still better is at least most online autism discourse cant be traced back to like a pharma shill "magazine" getting random psychologists to write lengthy explanations of niche disorder specific anxiety that can only be alleviated with stimulant medication and everyone deciding to argue for ten million years about if this word they just invented can apply to people without this disorder or not like at least intra community autism discourse is still originating from the blogging proletariat

[pharmafocusasiamagazine]

Why the need to launch a biomarker research arm?

Menarini Biomarkers (A. Menarini Biomarkers Singapore Pte Ltd) was founded with the mission of identifying, developing, and validating new biomarkers on circulating human cells for applications in diagnostics.

There is a current healthcare gap in precision medicine surrounding the fields of early disease prediction and disease control, particularly related to precision rare-cell isolation, analysis, and disease diagnosis. Menarini Biomarkers uses single-cell analysis to provide clinicians with new tools for early detection, tracking disease progression, and the measurement of real-time responses to innovative therapies.

The R&D team specialises in pathogenic single-cell isolation that enables scientists to pinpoint specific disease markers, also known as biomarkers. The identification and selection of pathogenic single cells from blood samples is incredibly useful in disease treatment, as it helps healthcare practitioners narrow therapies down to target cells.

Read More : https://www.pharmafocusasia.com/research-development/building-biomedical-diagnostic-research

[wannabecatwriter]

Lexi: FAD DIETS ARE A SCAM. MAGAZINES ARE LYING TO YOU. DON'T TRUST BIG PHARMA.

Ulf: Ah, yes, this is why I wasn't a fan of sharing living space with Lexi before in the past...

[kp777]

By Ralph Nader

Common Dreams - Opinion

Aug. 18, 2024

It is up to you the citizens to demand such investigations by your senators and representatives.

Twenty-four years ago, Business Week magazine conducted a poll of the American people on whether corporations have too much control over their lives. Over seventy percent of them said YES! Since 2000, big businesses and their CEOs have gotten bigger, richer, less taxed and exercised far more power over the lives of workers, consumers, patients, children, communities, the two major political parties and our national, state and local governments.

That reality answers the question of why our corporate Congress has declined to hold public hearings confronting lawless corporate power with proposed legislation – the first step toward shifting more power to the people.

Weissman has put together a powerful legislative agenda to restore the rule of law over raw power.

Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen, demands ten key Congressional hearings – naming the Committees that can hold them – in the just-published edition of the Capitol Hill Citizen (to obtain a print copy only, go to capitolhillcitizen.com).

Here is a summary of them:

1. Rebuild democracy by ending big money in elections. Besides exploring public financing for elections, the Committees, for example, would make the connections between Big Pharma’s money and charging the highest drug prices in the world, despite the large subsidies given to the drug companies. Also, witnesses would give testimony to strengthen voting rights and eliminate partisan gerrymandering, among other measures.

2. Taxing corporations and the Super-Rich at least to the level of the prosperous 1960s. Tax financial speculation (see: greedvsneed.org), close “a raft of loopholes” and impose a wealth tax on “the outrageously wealthy.” Weissman writes: “How exactly did Jeff Bezos pay $1.1 billion in federal tax from 2006 to 2018, as his wealth grew by $127 billion?” How do so many giant, profitable companies get away with zero income tax for years at a time?

3. Anti-monopoly hearings to strengthen venerable antitrust laws, to catch up with many new forms of monopolization and protect small business, competition and innovation. New legislation should also “restore the rights of victims of anti-competitive practices – whether competitors or consumers – to sue monopolists.”

4. Roll back rampant corporate welfare by exposing the hundreds of billions of dollars a year in subsidies, handouts, giveaways and bailouts. From greatly inflated government contracts – as in the defense industry – to giveaways of public land resources, government-guaranteed giant capitalism must stop, and the savings devoted to public services in great need.

5. More and deeper hearings on corporate-driven climate disruptions. Congressional committees have had numerous hearings, but far more should be regularly held on how the corporate-driven climate crisis is harming people and property around the country, how efficient are the ways to mitigate or prevent such fossil-fuel-led disasters, and how the law must be toughened with stronger enforcement and budgets to forestall this omnicidal destruction that gets worse every year.

6. “Winning Medicare for All” hearings to show how other countries spend far less per capita and get better patient outcomes with far less paperwork, waste, over-billing and denials of care. Weissman notes how conditions are getting worse with “private equity investors rushing to buy up everything from nursing homes to emergency care companies.”

7. Legislative hearings to enact laws that end the over-pricing of prescription drugs in the U.S. that are “roughly three times what they are in other rich countries.” This would build on Senator Bernie Sanders’ hearings by fundamentally changing the conditions that breed ever-worsening “pay or die” unregulated drug industry price dictates.

8. Hearings that place the most obstructive anti-union formation laws in the Western world under reform spotlights. Union-busting law firms and consultants should be subpoenaed to give testimony, produce documents, and answer questions under oath. Long overdue are hearings on the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act (1947) to allow card checks and faster procedures between union certification and contracts with employers.

9. Also, long overdue are Congressional hearings that “shine a light on the victims of corporate wrongdoing who have been denied their day in court or the ability to obtain fair compensation.” On the table would be a “Corporate Accountability and Civil Justice Restoration Act” that protects the constitutional right of trial by jury that has been severely eroded by corporate lawyers and corporate judges.

10. Hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee to confront the surging corporate crime wave with a modernized, comprehensive federal corporate criminal law. One that is adequately empowered and resourced to deter, punish and hold corporate crooks and their companies accountable through a variety of proven mechanisms. Present laws are pathetically weak, easily gamed, and allow ever more widespread immunities for these comfortable fugitives from justice.

Weissman has put together a powerful legislative agenda to restore the rule of law over raw power. He has a Congress Watch group staffed by public interest lobbyists who can swing into action daily on Capitol Hill equipped with a combination of invincible rhetoric rooted in irrebuttable evidence to benefit all the American people.

It is up to you the citizens to demand such investigations by your senators and representatives.

I would add serious hearings on the bloated, redundant military budget. Absorbing over half of all federal operating expenditures, this vast appropriation is in violation of federal law since 1992 requiring audited budgets be sent to Congress yearly. The Pentagon is presently out of sight by members of Congress and out of control even by the Army, Air Force and Navy.

Another basic hearing is needed by the Joint Committee on Printing aimed at restoring the printing of Congressional hearings and reports for maximum distribution in depository libraries and use by citizens. Hearing transcripts and very tardy online hearing records give corporate lobbyists an advantage in lobbying Congress. They can afford to pay for rapid access transcripts or personally go to the hearings that citizens may not be able to easily attend. Few citizens can afford such luxuries. (See the February/March 2024 issue of the Capitol Hill Citizen).

By the way, voters should demand that Congress be in session five days a week instead of three days a week with long recesses. More hearings, and the critical information work of our national legislature, requires a full week’s work, for which they get fully paid. (We will have additional proposals for blockbuster hearings in the future.)

Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate and the author of "The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future" (2012). His new book is, "Wrecking America: How Trump's Lies and Lawbreaking Betray All" (2020, co-authored with Mark Green).

[claudehenrion]

Pour sortir un peu de la morosité ambiante...

Quand je pense qu'il y a des gens qui osent critiquer la Science et les savants... ça me rend malade ! Alors que, à propos du covid, ils ont pu démontrer leur immense honnêteté en ne cédant jamais aux bobards des ''Big-Pharma'', et aussi leur originalité intrinsèque --chacun ressassant les mêmes inepties, en sachant parfaitement que c'est de la bouillie pour les chats... On devrait les con-gratuler (en 2 mots) pour la manière ahurissante (d'aucun disent ''macronienne'' !) dont cette fausse crise fabriquée de toutes pièces a été mal gérée...

Pour tenter de redresser un peu l'image de marque de nos ''savants'', qui est ravagée par leur comportement passé et présent (mais il faut les comprendre : ils luttent pour sauver leurs privilèges, leurs décorations et leurs prébendes), je vous propose de nous passionner pour une étude scientifique très récente qui vient de faire faire des pas de géant à la connaissance (avec un grand c tout petit) du monde (avec un grand m, tout petit aussi). Si vous lisez le célèbre magazine américain ''Science'' (même une fois tous les 2 siècles, comme moi), vous avez pu découvrir, dans le dernier numéro que j'ai lu, que (tenez-vous bien !) ''les corbeaux savent compter jusqu' à 4'' ! Pas un de plus, mais pas un de moins. Imaginez Maître Corbeau avec son corps laid, sur son arbre, croassant : ''Un... deux... trois... quatre... ''. Ah ! Quand je vous dis que la Science est utile !

Mais je vous ai prévenus, c'est du lourd : nous sommes dans l'univers de ''LA Science'', et pour en arriver à cette conclusion, il a fallu que des équipes de cerveaux ''musclés'' réunissent des budgets impressionnants, pour mettre au point des modèles hyper-compliqués. Ce qu'il faut admirer, c'est le résultat de toutes ces années de travaux acharnés : les corbeaux savent bel et bien compter jusqu'à 4 ! Quatre, comme les saisons, les ''cent coups'' ou les sous de l'Opéra éponyme, comme les vérités, les cheveux coupés en- ou, dans un autre registre, les cavaliers de l'Apocalypse et le nombre de planches de notre cercueil terminal... Je ne suis pas certain que tout le monde pige le non-dit de cette découverte, et ce que représente ce ''Sudoku'' corvidien (mais scientifique)...

La question qui saute immédiatement à l'esprit, c'est ''Pourquoi seulement quatre ?''. Il semble bien que, au dessus de quatre, il y a quelque chose qui bloque, et le tout est de savoir si c'est plutôt du côté des corbeaux qui ne voient pas pourquoi ils iraient plus loin, ou si c'est du côté des ''savants'' dont les modèles, eux, ne savent pas compter au delà de 4 en langage corbeau. Il m'est tout de suite venu en mémoire cette délicieuse vidéo qui revient épisodiquement sur le Web et qui montre une mère canard –donc une cane, en jargon féministe-- dont un policier est en train de sauver la couvée tombée dans une grille d'égout, et qui revient à la charge tant que le brave homme ne lui a pas restitué ses sept canetons.

Mais franchement, à l'aventure de la grille d'égout près (qui ne doit pas faire partie de l'héritage génétique de l'un ou de l'autre de ces animaux, on ne voit pas très bien à quoi peut servir à un oiseau de savoir qu'il sait compter jusqu'à 4 (voire jusqu'à 7) … ni à quoi peut servir à un savant de le mesurer jusqu'à arriver à 4, ou à 7 ! Il arrive sûrement très rarement à un corbeau ou à une corbelle (?) de raconter, lors d'une becquée de famille : ''Je grimpais les marches 4 à 4, lorsque soudain... '', et ''Je n'irai pas par quatre chemins...'', ou d'asséner sentencieusement ''Aussi vrai que deux et deux font quatre...''.

En fait, le seule question importante aurait dû être, me semble-t-il : en admettant qu'un corbeau soit capable de compter jusqu'à quatre, à quoi cela lui sert-il et quel avantage compétitif en retire-t-il ? Mes arrière-petits-enfants ont involontairement hérité de la plus vieille habitude du monde : dès que quelqu'un a le malheur de prononcer un chiffre devant eux, ils démarrent, comme vous et moi en notre temps, à toute vitesse et sans penser à rien : ''un deux trois quatre cinq six huit neuf quatorze...''. A combien nos savants évalueraient-ils leur performance arithmétique ? Il faudrait leur murmurer dans l'oreille que compter varie essentiellement avec ce que l'on compte : pour un champion de Sudoku, 9 est largement assez. Pour le fonctionnaire de Bercy , c'est ce qu'il peut vous voler en gardant un air légal, avec plein de zéros à la suite du premier chiffre. Pour le candidat bachelier, c'est la somme dont toutes les notes seront remontées sans raison, juste pour que l'Académie où il est soit bien placée et son recteur augmenté et promu... Et apparemment, pour tout chercheur ''ès-corbeaux'', c'est le chiffre 4...

Alors... par respect pour la Science qui a réellement besoin de redorer son blason tellement terni par les mensonges monstrueux qui ont permis à un pouvoir pathologiquement liberticide de nous imposer toutes les mesures absurdes et humiliantes que nous ne devrons jamais oublier ni lui pardonner... et dont tout le monde savait qu'aucune d'elles ne pouvait servir à quoi que ce soit --debout à la plage, pas d'enterrement, enfermer malades et non-malades dans leur appartement, condamner les enfants à rester dans des carrés à la craie, à la récré, etc... etc... Mais nous allons donc pouvoir nous réjouir bruyamment de cette grande nouvelle : un corbeau peut avoir jusqu'à quatre fromages dans son bec. Bonne nouvelle pour tous les renards !

NDLR : En revanche, je ne suis pas absolument persuadé que notre personnel politique, surtout dans les sphères les plus élevées, sache compter jusqu'à 4... A en juger par toutes leurs ''perfs'' de ces jours derniers, la question semble plutôt être ''savent-ils au moins compter jusqu'à... un'' ?

H-Cl.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel THE LOST CAUSE (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

#20yrsago Bad writerly advice https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/005212.html#005212

#20yrsago LotR movies remixed as trenchant Russian political satire https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/22/film.lordoftheringsfilms

#20yrsago First-person account of Massachusetts gay marriage https://web.archive.org/web/20040605123821/http://www.circa75.com/showArticle.php?article=130

#20yrsago PayPal disgraces itself, cuts off FreeNet https://web.archive.org/web/20040604050939/http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

#15yrsago Pinkwater’s EDUCATION OF ROBERT NIFKIN: zany and inspiring tale of taking charge of your own education https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/18/pinkwaters-education-of-robert-nifkin-zany-and-inspiring-tale-of-taking-charge-of-your-own-education/

#15yrsago Technology Bill of Rights https://web.archive.org/web/20090521124424/http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-management/toward-technology-bill-rights-867

#15yrsago Debt-collectors and credit card companies: the psychologists of predatory lending https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17credit-t.html

#10yrsago Anti-Net Neutrality Congresscritters made serious bank from the cable companies https://web.archive.org/web/20140520184355/http://maplight.org/Contributions to House Members Lobbying against Net Neutrality from Cable Interests

#5yrsago Apple removed a teen’s award-winning anti-Trump game “Bad Hombre” because they can’t tell the difference between apps that criticize racism and racist apps https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/18/apple-removed-a-teens-award-winning-anti-trump-game-bad-hombre-because-they-cant-tell-the-difference-between-apps-that-criticize-racism-and-racist-apps/

#5yrsago Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties “to help poor people,” and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/pangea-has-taken-thousands-to-eviction-court-the-story-of-an-apartment-empire/

#5yrsago AOC grills pharma exec about why the HIV-prevention drug Prep costs $8 in Australia costs $1,780 in the USA https://web.archive.org/web/20190628120032/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ocasio-cortez-confronts-ceo-for-nearly-2k-price-tag-on-hiv-drug-that-costs-8-in-australia/ar-AABsDP0

#1yrago How to save the news from Big Tech https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/18/stealing-money-not-content/#beyond-link-taxes

[texasobserver]

“The Texas Observer’s 2023 Must-Read Lone Star Books” by Senior Editor Lise Olsen, with help from Susan Post of Austin's Bookwoman:

Despite a disturbing rise in book bans, Texas is, against all odds, becoming more and more of a literary hub with authors winning accolades, indie bookstores popping up from Galveston Island to El Paso, and ban-busting librarians and other book-lovers throwing festivals. So as you ponder gifts this holiday season or consider what to read by the fire or by the pool (who can say in December?), pick some Lone Star lit. 

Here’s a list of #MustRead 2023 books by Texans or about Texas compiled by the Observer staff with help from Susan Post of Austin’s independent Bookwoman. (Several talented Texans also made best book lists in Slate magazine, The New Yorker, and NPR’s Books We Love.)

NONFICTION

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Dallas journalist Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a dramatic takedown of the Texas foster care and family court system. It’s both a compelling narrative and an investigative tour de force.

The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine (Simon & Schuster) by Ricardo Nuila, a Houston physician and author, is an eye-opening and surprisingly optimistic read. Nuila delves deeply into what’s wrong with modern medicine by painting rich portraits of the patients he’s treated (and befriended) while working at Harris County’s Ben Taub Hospital, which offers free or low-cost—yet high-quality—care against all odds. Each of them had been forced into impossible positions and suffered additional trauma from obstacles and gaps in insurance, corporate medicine, and Big Pharma.

Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians and a Legacy of Rage (Simon & Schuster) by Fort Worth journalist Jeff Guinn is one of two books that mark the 30th anniversary of the standoff between the Branch Davidians and federal agents that ended with 86 deaths. (The other is Waco Rising by Kevin Cook.) Both authors recount how the 1993 tragedy shaped other extremist leaders in America—and still influences separatist movements today.

Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (University of Texas Press) by Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay has been described as the quintessential Steely Dan book. As part of the project, LeMay, a native Houstonian, created 109 whimsical portraits of characters that sprang from the musicians’ lyrics and legends. In a review, fellow artist Melissa Messer wrote: “Looking at Joan’s oeuvre makes me feel tipsy, or like I’ve drunk Wonka’s Fizzy Lifting Drink and I’m swimming through the air after her, searching for the same vision.”

Memoir

Black Cameleon: Memory, Womanhood and Myth(Macmillan) by Debra D.E.E.P. Mouton, the former Houston poet Laureate, shares lyrical memories of her own life mixed with ample asides on Black culture and family lore. Her storylines sink deeply into a dream world, and yet readers emerge without forgetting her deeper messages.

Leg: The Story of a Limb and a Boy Who Grew from It (Abrams Books) by Greg Marshall of Austin has been described as “a hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy.” NPR’s Scott Simon, who interviewed Marshall, described the memoir as “intimate, and I mean that in all ways—insightful and often laugh-out-loud funny.”

Up Home: One Girl’s Journey (Penguin Random House) by Ruth J. Simmonsis a powerful memoir from the Grapeland native who became the president of Brown University and thus, the first Black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons begins by sharing stories about her parents, who were sharecroppers, and about her life as one of 12 children growing up in a tiny Texas town during the Jim Crow era. For her, the classroom became “a place of brilliant light unlike any our homes afforded.” (Simmons’s other academic credentials include being the former president of Smith College; president of Prairie View A&M University, Texas’s oldest HBCU; and the former vice provost of Princeton.)

Novels and Short Stories

An Autobiography of Skin(Penguin Random House) by Lakiesha Carr weaves together three powerful narratives all featuring Black women from Texas. Carr, a journalist originally from East Texas, plumbs the depths of each character’s struggles, sharing tales of gambling, lost love, abuse, and the power of women to overcome. 

Holler, Child (Penguin Random House), a new short story collection from Latoya Watkins, was long-listed for the National Book Award. Her eleven tales press “at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance,” as the cover description promises, and introduce West Texas-inspired characters irrevocably shaped by place.

The Nursery (Pantheon Books) by Szilvia Molnar—a surprisingly honest, anatomically accurate (and unsettling) novel about new motherhood—begins: “I used to be a translator and now I am a milk bar.” It’s a riveting and original debut by Molnar, who is originally from Budapest, was raised in Sweden, and now lives in Austin.

Two legendary Austin writers weighed in with new novels on our tall stack of Texas goodreads: The Madstone (Little, Brown and Company) by Elizabeth Crook, the 2023 Texas Writer Award winner, and Mr. Texas, a fictional send-up of Texas politics by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright. 

Poetry

Bookwoman’s Susan Post, who contributed titles to our list, also recommends filling your holiday shelves with poetry by and about Texans:

Dream Apartment (Copper Canyon Press) by Lisa Olstein; 

Low (Gray Wolf Press) by Nick Flynn; 

Freedom House by KB Brookins (published by Dallas’ Deep Vellum Bookstore & Publishing Co.) 

Essays

Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry (University of Texas Press) edited by George Getchow, contains essays from a who’s who list of Texas writers about Larry McMurtry’s influence on Texas culture and their lives. It includes an array of reflections on history and the writing process as well as anecdotes about McMurtry’s off-beat and innovative life. 

To Name the Bigger Lie (Simon & Schuster) by Sarah Viren, an ex-Texan who now teaches creative writing at Arizona State University, (excerpted in Lithub) includes reflections on Viren’s experiences (and misadventures) as an “out” academic and writer in states like Florida, Texas, and Arizona. As she dryly notes, “Critiques of the personal essay, and by extension memoir, are often gendered—not to mention classist and racist and homophobic.” 

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