What's on the Nightstand: Skip Hollandsworth

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.