Nov. Texas Monthly has excerpt from bio "Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life"

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by Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith.Just from this piece it looks to be an excellent read. Wish Molly were still here.I'd have loved to have seen her trading zingers with Rachel Maddow,who's coming up shortly on the tube.
http://www.texasmonthly.com/2009-11-01/books.php

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1. Nothing like that girl

She surely didn't dance with the one who brung her. All the boomers weren't bad.

[sonias]

2. I just read that yesterday

Lovely photos in the issue too.

The following year, she was back for her last internship at the Chronicle. She wrote a series of articles with fellow intern (and current publisher of the Texas Observer) Carlton Carl that were compressed into one long piece about poverty in Houston. It wound up on the front page, a major coup considering the topic and the fact that it had been spearheaded by interns. On Saturdays she’d invite the newer interns for trips aboard her father’s yacht, people sometimes laughing so hard they fell overboard, and she spent weekends at the slivers of beach on Galveston Island, walking out on the piers where the mob still ran their illicit casinos.

Classic Molly. It's going to be a great book on her. Looking forward to it. Bill Minutaglio will be at the Texas Book Festival this weekend to promote the book there.

The Texas Observer & TBF present Two Texas Firebrands
Saturday, October 31 2:30-3:30
Texas State Capitol: Capitol Auditorium Room E1.004
with Molly Ivins biographer Bill Minutaglio & J. Frank Dobie biographer Steven Davis
Mod: Bob Moser

Sonia

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3. "The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging."

-Molly Ivans

I sure miss her too! She will always have a special place in my heart. :)