Barry White’s “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” was playing as the Black cowboy stood on his saddle and started dancing. This was 1978, at a raucous nighttime rodeo in Bastrop, Texas, and Sarah ...

Sarah Bird, who has released a dozen novels over the last two decades, drew on her own family history for inspiration in "Last Dance on the Starlight Pier." Julia Robinson / Special Contributor Many ...

Bird submitted her photos of Black rodeos to publications everywhere, but all were rejected. Now, 50 years and 11 novels later, there has been a revived interest in the world of Black rodeos (perhaps ...

Sarah Bird's new novel is a Cinderella story. Although when it begins, her Cinderella has already married the prince, divorced him, and been booted from the palace not by a wicked stepmother but by a ...

Sarah Bird is reluctant to say this, but Blythe Young — social climber, reprobate and main character in Bird's new novel — is America. "Nobody's going to read this book if I say Blythe Young is ...

You want to use phrases like “ripping yarn” and “helluva story” for Sarah Bird’s new page-turner, but that makes Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen sound un-literary. It is, and isn’t — both in the ...

Reading this career-spanning collection of quick-witted essays from novelist and essayist Bird (Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen) feels much like spending time with a curious, energetic, and ...

I’ve known Austin writer Sarah Bird for, I’m guessing, 25 or 30 years. What I didn’t know until recently is that for all those years and longer, my friend has been trying to tell the true-life tale of ...