When George Garrett wrote of Robert Winship’s The Brushlanders,
"Robert Winship has an abiding and powerful sense of place and,
even better, compassion for and curiosity about people—the
inhabitants," he might well have been writing about Flannery’s
Crossing, which, set also in West Texas, focuses on one Arthur
Flannery, an aging cowboy, who finds himself resident in a fleabag
hotel in Pecos. When Paul Markham, proprietor of the Courtney,
begins losing customers because of a freight train that roars past
the hotel in the early morning hours, he is helpless to stop it.
Flannery saves the day.
 
"When you read a Bob Winship book, you might as well prepare 
yourself for a narrative charged with thought, because this man 
does not write shallow escape fiction. In both his earlier books, 
The Brushlanders and Every Man Also, readers came away 
understanding a great deal more about human nature and the 
modern condition than they did when they began. Bob Winship is a 
writer not simply to be enjoyed but to be listened to, for his 
wisdom runs deep through his characters. The laconic prose of 
Flannery’s Crossing will remind the reader of Hemingway, who 
never used more words than he needed but always used enough. 
This is a thought-provoking novel with just enough humor and just 
enough sex to make it sizzle."—Paul Ruffin, author, Pompeii Man,
The Man Who Would Be God, and Islands, Women, and God

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A graduate of Sam Houston State University with an M.A. in 
creative writing, ROBERT WINSHIP is the author of a highly 
successful collection of short stories, The Brushlanders (Texas 
Review Press, 1992); and a novel, Every Man Also (Texas Review 
Press, 1999). Winship’s fiction and essays have appeared in a 
number of journals, including The Texas Review and The Hawaii 
Review. For several years he wrote a column, Winship’s Log, 
which appeared in West Texas newspapers. A native West Texan, 
he currently lives with his wife, Shirley, on the family ranch, The 
Rockpile, in Segovia, Texas, an hour and a half west of San 
Antonio.