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Texas Monthly remembers Chester Rosson, a longtime staffer and resident gentle soul.

That Paris can be said to have top billing in the title of Gregory Curtis' memoir is meaningful not only because the City of Light is the book's primary setting, a place Curtis visited repeatedly with his wife Tracy during her life and one he continued to visit after her death, but because of the massive presence that Paris holds in Curtis' telling. To him, it is less a collection of buildings, streets, and people than a godlike being – huge, ancient, and deep, with its own sense of life and consciousness. It's a thing one is drawn to and yet it is indifferent to those who come to it. "Pari...

In ‘Paris Without Her,’ Gregory Curtis mourns the loss of his wife and learns to travel alone The longtime ‘Texas Monthly’ editor’s memoir offers a tender and clear-eyed reflection. with virtual book event information. Gregory Curtis often is introduced as “the longtime editor of Texas Monthly,” but in fact, he has been gone for 21 years from the magazine he joined at its 1972 inception, and that he ran for 19 years beginning in 1981. He remembers precisely that “June 30, 2000, was my last day at Texas Monthly.” Over nearly half a century, the magazine and its people have...