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I am big collector of books about fashion – from biographies, to history, to all types of fashion photography. No book that I’ve ever picked up about men’s style has impressed me as much as this one – 100 Years of Menswear by Cally Blackman.
Starting with early tailored clothing in the early 1900’s and ending [...]

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Winners of the prestigious James Beard award in 2007, the Lee Brothers – Matt and Ted, have written a brand new bestseller as a follow up to their already classic “Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook“. The new hardcover is titled “Simple Fresh Southern” and its a really great addition to your kitchen bookshelf. I have to [...]

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Looking for a great Holiday gift? Besides one of our shirts of course, you might want to check this new coffee table book titled Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera. If you are a loyal follower of this blog you may have noticed that I am a huge fan of his work; I like to post his [...]

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Inspired by the live oaks of Austin’s Zilker Park, Texan artist Jennifer Deutrom has created a series of intricate drawings based on the trees amazing gnarled trunks and branches. This show at Domy Books titled “Twisted Growth” celebrates these noble trees ability to survive in Austins harsh climate. Opening this Saturday, December 5th from 7-9pm, [...]

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Purchased in the sixties for just $50 this Olivetti Lettera 32 Typewriter was the tool used to create some of the best Texas fiction of all time. Used by author Cormac McCarthy, this simple typewriter was what he used to write a dozen novels, screenplays, plays, short stories and more. The legendary author of such [...]

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The Wallpaper City Guides are a really fantastic, very well edited set of guidebooks to almost 80 cities around the world. Focusing on all the places that a design conscious traveler would be interested in, the latest city guide to be added to the series is Houston. These books are all worth checking out- not [...]

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From scripture, the word Gilead refers to “hill of testimony” or “mound of witness” a mountainous region east of the river of Jordan, in the present day Kingdom of Jordan.  Gilead is also the name of the second novel by acclaimed author, Marilynne Robinson.  The novel was the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for [...]

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The final installment of the Duane Moore series of books, Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry, was released yesterday August, 11th.  This series, which was started back in 1966 with The Last Picture Show, revisits all his beloved characters back in the fictitious town of Thalia, Texas.  In this supposed final book from McMurtry, Duane Moore [...]

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“I’ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.”
He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds [...]

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