At Interabang Books we love to ask our customers what they’re reading. We share some of their answers in What's on the Nightstand, a feature focused on what our friends in the community have been reading (or intend to).
Skip Hollandsworth is a journalist, a screenwriter, and the executive editor of Texas Monthly. A four-time finalist for a National Magazine Award, the industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, he won in 2010 for “Still Life,” his story about a young man who, after a crippling football injury in high school, spent the next 33 years in his bedroom, unable to move. The 2011 movie BERNIE, which he co-wrote with Richard Linklater, is based on Skip’s story, “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas.” His true crime history about a series of murders in Austin in 1885, THE MIDNIGHT ASSASSIN, has been a national bestseller, and its paperback edition was the top-selling work by a local author during Interabang’s first year in business.
Clock Dance: A novel
By
Anne Tyler

Out of Stock Indefinitely
As soon as it was released in July, I bought it. I always read Anne Tyler. I love her so much that my wife and I named our daughter Tyler Anne. Yes, all of her novels are set in Baltimore, they circle around minor domestic issues, and the characters feel similar – but I don’t care. Since I first read DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT, she has made me swoon.
As soon as it was released in July, I bought it. I always read Anne Tyler. I love her so much that my wife and I named our daughter Tyler Anne. Yes, all of her novels are set in Baltimore, they circle around minor domestic issues, and the characters feel similar – but I don’t care. Since I first read DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT, she has made me swoon.
The Girls: A Novel
By
Emma Cline
I still am fascinated by young first novelists who hit it big with coming-of-age novels (largely because I tried it myself for a few years before realizing I wasn’t much of a fiction writer), and when I saw the paperback version of THE GIRLS (which was the first-novel sensation of 2016), I impulsively grabbed it.
I still am fascinated by young first novelists who hit it big with coming-of-age novels (largely because I tried it myself for a few years before realizing I wasn’t much of a fiction writer), and when I saw the paperback version of THE GIRLS (which was the first-novel sensation of 2016), I impulsively grabbed it.
The Outsider: A Novel
By
Stephen King
My only hobby in life is going to bookstores and buying books that I think I will read. And then I never get to them. My purchase of Stephen King novels fits this category. I buy Stephen King, I always want to read Stephen King, I put him on my bedside table, and I never pick him up again. This time might be different. The Outsiders has gotten such great viewers. But there are so many things to read and so little time.
My only hobby in life is going to bookstores and buying books that I think I will read. And then I never get to them. My purchase of Stephen King novels fits this category. I buy Stephen King, I always want to read Stephen King, I put him on my bedside table, and I never pick him up again. This time might be different. The Outsiders has gotten such great viewers. But there are so many things to read and so little time.
Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
By
Mimi Swartz
Out of Stock Indefinitely
Yes, Mimi is a fellow Texas Monthly writer and good friend of mine. But she is a master of narrative nonfiction (my own field), and TICKER, about the race among Houston doctors to build and successfully implant an artificial heart, reads like a thriller.
Yes, Mimi is a fellow Texas Monthly writer and good friend of mine. But she is a master of narrative nonfiction (my own field), and TICKER, about the race among Houston doctors to build and successfully implant an artificial heart, reads like a thriller.
