Award-winning Irish writer Mike McCormack and I discuss my time in Galway, storytelling, and the move from journalism to television.
Photo: Martina Regan.
Deadline — Christian Wallace to Adapt George Washington’s Secret Six
Deadline announces Christian Wallace’s feature adaptation of Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger’s George Washington’s Secret Six, a historical espionage thriller about the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution.
Read the announcement in Deadline.
Image via Deadline; portrait by LeAnn Mueller.
Midland Reporter-Telegram — Sharing West Texas with the world
Reporting from my appearance at the Permian Basin Water in Energy conference, on telling the region’s stories for a wider audience.
Photo: The Oilfield Photographer.
Texas State’s Hillviews — Young Alumni Rising Star Award
Coverage of Texas State’s alumni honors, including my Young Alumni Rising Star recognition.
Read the 2025 Legends Gala profile.
Photo: Texas State University.
Country Living — Reflecting on Landman’s second season
A conversation about the response to Season 2, its West Texas roots, and where the story might go next. Contains Season 2 spoilers.
Photo: Taylor Hill / Getty Images.
The Hollywood Reporter — Season 2 finale
A conversation about the finale and what comes next. Contains spoilers.
Photo: Emerson Miller / Paramount+.
Condé Nast Traveler — The places behind Landman
From Ratliff Stadium to the Patch Cafe, a conversation about the real places and people behind the show. Contains Season 2 spoilers.
Photo: Emerson Miller / Paramount+.
Variety — The oilfield reality behind Landman
Decider — Bringing the Permian Basin to the screen
Talking about the show’s reach, working with the cast, and bringing real roughneck work to the screen.
Photo: Emerson Miller / Paramount+.
Deadline — The Process with Andrew Lockington
A conversation with composer Andrew Lockington about the music of Landman.
Image: Deadline.
Tribeza — Landman Receives the First Texas Made Award
Landman received the inaugural Texas Made Award at the 2025 ATX TV Festival, presented in partnership with Media For Texas. Christian joined members of the cast in Austin to accept the honor.
Backstage — Turning West Texas life into drama
Discussing casting, working with the actors, and helping the cast inhabit the world of the oil patch.
Photo: Emerson Miller / Paramount+.
The New York Times — Going Deep Into the Permian Basin
I’m featured in “Going Deep Into the Permian Basin,” a Paramount+ paid feature published by The New York Times.
Paid feature for Paramount+
Image: Tim McDonagh.
Fort Worth Magazine — Christian Wallace Is Striking Black Gold
A profile tracing the road from the oilfield and Texas Monthly to Boomtown and Landman.
Photo: Crystal Wise.
Vanity Fair: 'Landman' First Look
Landman: Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hamm, Ali Larter, and Demi Moore Go Full Texas
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan teams with Boomtown podcaster Christian Wallace for a drama set in the broiling, bug-infested Texas oil fields. “This was probably the hardest thing I ever did,” Thornton says.
Christian Wallace Inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters
Members of the Texas Institute of Letters have overwhelmingly approved twenty-six new writers to the TIL, a distinguished honor society established in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and recognize distinctive literary achievement.
The TIL’s elected membership consists of the state’s most recognized and serious writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, and scholarship. The membership includes winners of the MacArthur Fellowship, Man Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prizes in drama, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as prizes awarded by PEN, and dozens of other regional and national award and grantgiving institutions.
Christian Wallace, 2023 inductee: From the West Texas town of Andrews, he writes for Texas Monthly and was promoted to senior editor in 2020. Wes Ferguson calls him "one of the most exciting nonfiction stylists writing about Texas right now," and Skip Hollandsworth describes his work as following "the muscular, spirited style of West Texas writing personified by Larry L King." His subjects include oilfields, rodeo cowboys, honkytonks, and the Panhandle Plains. His articles have been finalists for several awards including TIL's Edwin “Bud” Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction, National Magazine Awards for “The Resurrection of Bass Reeves,” and City and Regional Magazine Awards for “Long Live Honky-Tonks!”
Conversation with NPR on "the mythos of the Texas cowboy"
Spoke with KTTZ, Lubbock’s NPR station, about my stories on Boots O’Neal, Bass Reeves, and the mythos of the Texas cowboy. Listen to the conversation here: “Listen in, Lubbock.”
"The Resurrection of Bass Reeves" named finalist for National Magazine Award in Feature Writing
The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) announced the finalists for the 2022 National Magazine Awards. The 57th annual awards honor magazines and websites for editorial excellence in categories ranging from Reporting and Photography to Podcasting and Video. Read full list of finalists here. Read story here.
Billy Bob Thornton set as lead in Taylor Sheridan's TV adaptation of 'Booomtown'
Deadline announced that Billy Bob Thornton will star in the lead role of Taylor Sheridan’s series ‘Land Man,’ based on the Boomtown podcast series. Read more at Collider.
Boomtown named Webby Award Honoree
Boomtown earned an “honoree” distinction at the 25th annual Webby Awards in the Podcasts Documentary category. Other honorees here.