Half-baked in Big Bend

As a certified fan of long-form crime narratives, and of Outside magazine’s deserved reputation for great storytelling, I was predisposed to like Rachel Monroe’s feature on the death of a popular bartender in Terlingua, an end-of-the-world outpost in Texas’ Big Bend country. Indeed, the story resonates with rich atmospherics: the beautiful, spare, desert; the free […]