Francesca Mari
The New York Times
Austin, TX, United States
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Past articles by Francesca:
What’s Between 30 Million Americans and an Eviction Tsunami?
Only government intervention can keep millions of Americans housed. → Read More
Where America’s Fight for Housing Is an All-Out War
Conor Dougherty’s “Golden Gates” examines the nation’s homeless problem through the battles over new development in San Francisco. → Read More
She Grew Up Poor on a Kansas Farm. Her Memoir Is an Attempt to Understand Why.
In “Heartland,” Sarah Smarsh offers a cleareyed account of hardscrabble life on the Great Plains — a pattern that in her family goes back generations. → Read More
Gender Bender
Colt Keo-Meier is Texas’s preeminent researcher on transgender issues. But for him, it’s not just about the science. It’s personal. → Read More
Convicted Conman Youssef Khater is Up and Running Again
An update on Youssef Khater since we published ”The Talented Mr. Khater.” → Read More
Brave Heart
Brené Brown explains why being vulnerable is the toughest and worthiest thing you can do. → Read More
The Talented Mr. Khater
In 2011 Callie Quinn moved from Austin to Chile to experience a new way of life. Then she met a charming fellow foreigner—and almost lost everything. → Read More
The Talented Mr. Khater
In 2011 Callie Quinn moved from Austin to Chile to experience a new way of life. Then she met a charming fellow foreigner—and almost lost everything. → Read More
Texas Man Treasures Finds in Updike's Trash
MANCHACA, Tex. — A man can get rich off his old emails and aborted novels, if that man is Ian McEwan . This spring, McEwan, 66, the Booker Prize -winning author of Atonement and On Chesil Beach , fetched $2 million for his archive from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. To mark the acquisition, McEwan visited the center in September to give the first American reading… → Read More
Texas Man Treasures Finds in Updike’s Trash
In his collection, The Other John Updike Archive, Paul Moran has chronicled material others deemed unworthy of saving. → Read More
The Click Clique
Amber Venz was just a pretty Dallas girl with good taste and a blog, until she figured out something revolutionary: how to make money with every post. Meet the 27-year-old queen of a whole new fashion empire. → Read More
A Summer Weekend in Oaxaca
Unwinding in Mexico’s fertile crescent of arts and crafts (and moles). → Read More
Fixing the Fruits of the Earth
The sweet onion! The mild pepper! The maroon carrot! These and countless other tasty fruits and vegetables wouldn't exist but for the scientists of the Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year. → Read More
12 Photos of the Vandalization that Briefly Turned Prada Marfa into "TOMS Marfa"
The famous installation in Far West Texas continues to incite debate over art and commerce. → Read More
Finally, a Valid Excuse For Doodling During a Meeting
A new book explains how drawing stick figures and other little illustrations during meetings and group sessions can help clarify thoughts and ideas. → Read More
So, Is It Art? Talking to Playboy Marfa Artist Richard Phillips
What Is Art?
When Playboy Enterprises—yes, that Playboy Enterprises—erected a forty-foot-tall sculpture near Marfa, it was convinced the town would appreciate its take on the local art scene. Instead it started a revealing debate. → Read More
Hog Hunting With Texas's Next Literary Giant
Philipp Meyer is impressing the literary world with his second novel, The Son, a multigenerational epic about an oil and ranching dynasty in Texas that is being called the most ambitious Texas novel in years. But how did this East Coast-reared man manage to capture the spirit of the state? → Read More