Rien Fertel

About

Rien Fertel is the author, most recently, of The One True Barbecue. He is currently writing a book on Southern rock.

Articles

Bloody Highway 90

By Rien Fertel

Issue 96, Spring 2017

The Keepers of the Light

But this painting also made me realize that something was wrong with not only this scene but the many scenes within scenes that filled my grandmother’s upscale restaurant. There, the bulk of patrons...

By Rien Fertel

KEEPERS

Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt met during what Clark later called “the great folk scare.” Houston in the early 1960s had a folk community that paralleled those in Cambridge, Minneapolis, or Los...

By Rien Fertel