Gladly: Reading, Writing, and Teaching in Texas is a collection of 45 essays and reviews written by Lyman Grant during his 40+ years as a professor and administrator at Austin Community College. Grant writes about Texas writers including Roy Bedichek, William A. Owens, William Goyen, R. G. Vliet, Rolando Hinojosa, John Graves, Stephen Harrigan. Dave Oliphant. Grant, founder and editor of MAN! magazine, also writes about men's issues, recovery, and mentoring with interviews of Thomas Henderson, Asa Baber, and Dan Jones. Understanding himself as one of Virginia Woolf's "common readers," writes about his life as a teacher and the books he reads with a sense of curiosity and discovery. Most of the essays have been previously published in a variety of newspapers and magazines published in Texas, including The Dallas Morning News, Texas Observer, Langdon Review, Texas Humanist, and MAN! Book includes a bibliography and complete list of Grant's prose publications.