It’s only fitting that an excerpt of The Trials of Eroy Brown is going to appear in the November issue of the Texas Observer.
Dave Mann, the new editor, thought it was a perfect match for magazine and so do I. I’m sorry that Molly Ivins isn’t around to see it happen. She wrote in 1994 after Craig Washington was defeated for Congress that Washington’s defense of Eroy Brown would make a great book and movie, and go down as a Gettysburg of legal history. What a great woman she was. The book is dedicated to her memory.
The Observer will blog about the excerpt soon in anticipation of my appearance at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Sunday, October 23.
