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Stephen Harrigan

@stephenharrigan.bsky.social
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Writer at Large for Texas Monthly. Author of thirteen books, including The Gates of the Alamo, Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas, and the forthcoming Sorrowful Mysteries: the Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century.

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Stephen Harrigan @stephenharrigan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
My daughter Dorothy Guerrero and I embarked on a Texas history road trip and hit every Dairy Queen from the Alamo to Starbase.
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The Ultimate Father-Daughter Texas Road Trip
A noted Texas historian and his adult child get behind the wheel to see if they can finally view their home state the same way.
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Stephen Harrigan @stephenharrigan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It's May 13, the day in 1917 when three children in Fatima, Portugal claimed they saw the Virgin Mary. Their story is the subject of my new book Sorrowful Mysteries: The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century, from @aaknopf.bsky.social
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Stephen Harrigan @stephenharrigan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The New York Times has weighed in on my new book with this very welcome review by Robert P. Baird.
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Book Review: ‘Sorrowful Mysteries,’ by Stephen Harrigan
In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring power of the Virgin of Fatima.
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Stephen Harrigan @stephenharrigan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Calling all lapsed Catholics! Join me on my book tour for Sorrowful Mysteries: The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century.
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Longreads @longreads.com · 04/04/2025
Congrats to @stephenharrigan.bsky.social, whose @texasmonthly.bsky.social piece won the Audience Award this week: www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/s...
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Nearly Forgotten, a 1969 Double Murder in Austin Still Haunts Some
In 1969, two University of Texas students who seemed destined for great things were inexplicably killed. Today their loved ones are still haunted and grieving.
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Stephen Harrigan @stephenharrigan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
n my half-century of magazine journalism, I seem to have entirely avoided writing about crime. At least until now. www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/s...
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“Something Went Wrong”: The Double Murder That Austin Nearly Forgot
In 1969, two University of Texas students who seemed destined for great things were inexplicably killed. Today their loved ones are still haunted and grieving.
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Stephen Harrigan @stephenharrigan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
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Stephen Harrigan @stephenharrigan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This essay/elegy/whatever by Caitlin Flanagan in @theatlantic.com is one of the best things I’ve read all year.
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Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
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Stephen Harrigan @stephenharrigan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...
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Opinion | The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone
What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?
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Stephen Harrigan @stephenharrigan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What’s the best age to read The Catcher in the Rye? Turns out, to my great surprise, that the book achieves maximum poignancy when you pick it up again in your seventies.
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Stephen Harrigan @stephenharrigan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Brand new here. Are we supposed to have a banner? I asked AI to take a look at the subject matter of my books and create something representative. I'm a bit alarmed by the result.
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