Texas Dive Bar Encyclopedia

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A road trip through the great dive bars of Texas.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the iconic Dry Creek Café in Austin was set to close writer Raf Miastkowski stopped in for a final round-and found a calling. Over the next three years he crisscrossed the state visiting hundreds of dive bars from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast documenting a vanishing piece of Texas culture.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Texas Dive Bar Encyclopedia</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is the result of more than 25000 miles on highways and gravel roads a journey into jukebox-lit saloons dusty beer joints and backroad honky-tonks. Part travelogue part cultural record this book captures the grit charm and strange beauty of Texas dive bars.</span></p><p></p>