“How Could I Embrace a Village?”
The New York Times, February 5, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07love.html
“How’d You Turn a Billion Steers Into Buildings Made of Mirrors”
The Texas Observer, July 10, 2009
www.texasobserver.org/archives/item/15727-buildings-made-of-mirrors
Mary was invited to participate in a collaboration with artist Laurie Frick at Gallery Shoal Creek. The opening/reading was held on Friday, April 24, at 7 p.m.
http://www.galleryshoalcreek.com/exhibits.html
“In Search of a Bird”
Night Train
http://www.nighttrainmagazine.com/contents/specht_7_1.php
“The Emerging Critical Powers of Cool”
Michigan Quarterly Review Fall 2006, Vol. XLV, No. 4
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=mqr;view=text;rgn=main;idno=act2080.0045.402
“Too Heavy to Carry Home” [PDF]
Colorado Review Fall/Winter 2006, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3
http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/cr/back.htm
“Contemporary White Fiction on Africa: Is There a Role for White Writers in Post-Colonial Literary Resistance?”
Ibadan Journal of English Studies, 2006, Vol. 3
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9412409/ch3-mary-specht
“House of Guns” [PDF]
The Florida Review Spring 2007, Vol. 32.1
http://www.flreview.com
“The Living Statue”
Hunger Mountain Spring 2008, No. 12
http://www.hungermtn.org/current.asp
“Texas Night-Blooming” [PDF]
The Southwest Review, Vol. 93, No. 3
http://smu.edu/southwestreview/
“Border Teens”
The Texas Observer, November 3, 2009
http://www.texasobserver.org/reviews/border-teens