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anna walsh
@annamccachren.bsky.social
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director of editorial operations at Texas Monthly // often found walking the streets of Austin, looking for a cat to pet
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dang it, I KNEW I was missing a step
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Our editor in chief Ross also wrote a lovely ode to Skip in this month's issue of @texasmonthly.bsky.social ❤️ www.texasmonthly.com/the-stand-up...
Did you hear? Skip’s in town from Dallas. I saw him walking down the hall. He’s probably talking to IT—a problem with his laptop. I think he’s heading out this afternoon, though I’m not sure. I can’t wait to introduce you. Before you meet him, you should know a few things. You can’t win a game of conversational chicken with Skip Hollandsworth. The interview skills he’s mastered as a writer for Texas Monthly over four decades means he will let a lull in the conversation linger. I have never met anyone more comfortable with silences. But the thing is, it won’t be uncomfortable for you. The expectant simper on his face will relax you. A Skip conversation is a Zen experience. The victims, aggressors, detectives, bystanders, aunts, cousins, and coworkers he’s gotten to talk to him about the most terrible crimes—they must have fallen under his spell too. His move is, he allows silences to occur. “Early in my career, I would read over the transcripts of my interviews, and in the margins I’d write ‘SU,’ as in, ‘shut up,’ ” he told me the other day. “I’d talk over people just as they were about to say something brilliant.” What few assertions he makes will be funny or poignant. And generous. They’ll probably be about how great you’re doing, about how important you are, about how you’re the best at what you do. You leave a Skip conversation feeling admired. His conversational approach has always been a little maddening to me because there’s no one else I’d rather hear talk. Not just for the substance but for the tone: His voice is Wichita Falls by way of Texas Christian University, which he graduated from in 1979. A little bit folksy, a little bit patrician, and totally unhurried.
October 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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This essay is excerpted from Skip's forthcoming book, "She Kills," available for preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/she-...
She Kills: The Murderous Socialite, the Cross-Dressing Bank Robber, and Other True Crime Tales
The Murderous Socialite, the Cross-Dressing Bank Robber, and Other True Crime Tales
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October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
“Stoked as these guys are, as a forty-year-old with arthritic hips and a disconcerting number of gray hairs colonizing my dome, I have my reservations. What exactly had I gotten myself into? A few hours ago I called my wife and three young children back home to tell them good night. “Dada, what are you doing?” my six-year-old asked. “Working,” I told him. In the background, I could hear my wife’s howling laughter.” “I was curious about these kids, whose antics are often juvenile but are occasionally downright funny. Who chooses to go to a Baptist college and then enlists in a subversive organization? What does it say about Baylor that this group has become such an institution? And how provocative can you be in an era when colleges across the country are cracking down on protests? Oh, and one other thing. They wanted me to ride with them on their homecoming float through downtown Waco dressed in full brotherhood regalia. But to do so, they had to initiate me, which would require a ritual Evel cryptically described as “involving water” and “not that bad.” What could go wrong?”
September 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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If you haven't read Aaron's piece for @texasmonthly.bsky.social -- it's a must read. Beautiful, and absolutely heart wrenching. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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SO good
August 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM