Texas’s Most Elusive Mammal Is Ready for Its Close-Up

I met Karen Olsson almost thirty years ago, when she was coediting the Texas Observer. Karen was confident in her opinions, and she could listen to an entire conversation in silence, wait for her moment, and then strike with the funniest comment of the night. When she joined the staff of Texas Monthly for a three-year stint in 2006, she could choose any topic and make it sing, whether she pointed her attention toward dark energy or noted mating expert David Buss (“An authority on prehistoric nooky—who wouldn’t want to ask the man a few questions?” she wrote). She brought the same insight and humor to her first novel, Waterloo (2005), about the Slacker days of Austin; to the family drama All the Houses (2015);…

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