Playwright, journalist, and book critic Gregg Barrios, 80, died of a heart attack on August 17. He served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, and the San Antonio Express-News reports, “He served in Vietnam, taught school in tiny Texas towns, founded an influential film society at the University of Texas at Austin and spent time in the Factory, Andy Warhol’s famed studio in New York.” George Cisneros, co-founder of Texas arts group Urban-15, told the paper: “Gregg was the gregarious interrupter of the status quo who would not leave well enough alone. He never accepted a culture […]
