Turn Out the Lights: Chronicles of Texas during the 80s and 90s
Author: Gary Cartwright
Foreword by Robert Draper
Southwestern Writers Collection Series, The Wittliff Collections
Publisher: The University of Texas Press, 2000
300 pp.
Price: Hardcover: $35.00
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This book collects seventeen of Cartwright's best Texas Monthly articles from the
1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, "My Most Unforgettable Year," about the
lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination. He ranges widely in these pieces, from
the reasons for his return to Texas after a New Mexican exile to profiles of Kris
Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Along the way, he strolls through San Antonio's
historic King William District; attends a Dallas Cowboys old-
