with encouragement from his son nile, southern returned to his long-shelved texas novel. retitled "texas summer", it was published in 1992 by richard seaver. southern's last two major articles were published during 1991; a piece on the texas band zz top appeared in the february edition of "spin", and an article on the gulf war appeared in "the nation" on july 8. during the year southern was also invited to teach screenwriting at columbia university's school of the arts and school of general studies as an adjunct professor, where he would work until his death.