Behind the Story

ichael Barnes and Joe Starr, the co-authors of this month’s feature “In Search of Forgotten Rivers” (Page 36), have taken road trips together since attending the University of Houston in the 1970s. They started tracing Texas rivers, says they let the rivers be their guides. “In terms of tracing them, if you’re doing it by car and on foot, you’re seeing Texas in a completely different way,” he says. “We really got to know those backroads that most people never get to take.” The feature, along with “A Return to the River,” a July 2018 story by writerat-large Clayton Maxwell, will be included in the forthcoming anthology from The Wittliff Collections Literary Series. The anthology, edited by Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester, is expected to be published in fall 2021 by Texas A&M University Press.