Texas Monthly Editor Skip Hollandsworth reveals how he hates to write, loves to report and does as much research as possible to create rich narratives and compelling characters. You might recall that Hollandsworth's 2011 movie Bernie, which Hollandsworth co-wrote with Richard Linklater, is based on his January 1998 story, “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas.” His true crime history, The Midnight Assassin, about a series of murders that took place in Austin in 1885.