Meet Carey Gable
“A loving tribute to the pulp noir legacy.”
— Charles Ardai, Founder and Editor of Hard Case Crime
Carey Gable is an East Texas writer, performer, educator, and student of old-world physical culture. His work explores endurance, identity, memory, violence, and the ways ordinary people continue moving forward after life has knocked them off balance.
A lifelong fan of pulp fiction, boxing, professional wrestling, and American noir, Gable writes stories populated by flawed characters, sharp dialogue, dark humor, and hard choices. His fiction is rooted in Northeast Texas, where heat warps judgment, loyalty is complicated, and consequences linger long after the final bell.
His debut novel, Smoke 'Em, launched the Cadmus Gale series in 2026. His stage play Is That You, Kilgore Trout? received the Audience Choice Award at the 2025 Pyro's Playfest, while The Perfect Date! was selected for performance at the 2026 festival. His nonfiction work, The Way to Endure: Old World Training for Modern Life, reflects his long-standing interest in physical culture, boxing history, martial arts, endurance sports, and the pursuit of capability over appearance.
Outside of writing, Gable has worked as an English professor, academic leader, minister, spoken-word performer, stand-up comic, martial artist, bodybuilder, triathlete, and professional wrestling booker. Those experiences continue to shape the themes found throughout his work.
His writing has appeared in academic journals, literary publications, newspapers, magazines, and public performances across Texas and beyond.
Whether writing crime fiction, essays, poetry, plays, or nonfiction, Gable remains interested in the same question:
How do people endure?
Read it hard. Feel it later.
Carey Gable is available for bookstore appearances, conventions, literary festivals, spoken-word performances, panel discussions, and author events.
What You’ll Find Here
I write stories about men and women who don’t get clean exits—people shaped by violence, loyalty, bad timing, and the places they can’t quite leave behind. Northeast Texas is my ground zero. Professional wrestling is my mythology. Noir is the engine.
My work lives at the intersection of pulp momentum and moral consequence. Punches land. Choices matter. Humor shows up at the worst possible moment.
Here you’ll find crime fiction, serialized work, essays, and reflections pulled from the same vein—stories that move fast, hit hard, and stay with you longer than you expect.
If you’re looking for neat endings, this probably isn’t the place.
If you’re looking for bruised characters and honest damage—you’re home.
Read it hard. Feel it later.
Train to Last
The Way to Endure: Old World Training for Modern Life
For readers of Hackenschmidt, Dempsey, Farmer Burns, and old-school physical culture.
What if fitness wasn't about looking impressive, but remaining capable?
Drawing inspiration from the physical culturists of the early twentieth century, The Way to Endure explores a different approach to strength, conditioning, and aging. Through stories from martial arts, bodybuilding, triathlon training, boxing history, and everyday life, Carey Gable argues that the goal of training is not perfection, but usefulness.
Part philosophy, part field guide, and part memoir, this practical book offers simple movements, sustainable workouts, and timeless principles designed to help readers build strength, maintain mobility, and remain physically alive for decades to come.
Because the goal is not to win a workout.
The goal is to endure.
Publications
My work has appeared across academic, creative, and serialized platforms, reflecting a career spent moving between scholarship, storytelling, and pulp.
Academic Publications
“Facilitating Student Success: Eight-Week College Composition Corequisite Courses” Teaching English in the Two Year College, Volume 52, May 2025.
“What is Called Thinking?” Published in The Humanities Review, 2023.
“Theo-Poetics: A Theory of the Divine,” Published in Show Bear Family Circus, 2020.
Creative Publications
The Way to Endure: A Field Guide for Modern Physical Culture. Handbook. Amazon KDP, 2026.
Smoke ’Em (A Cadmus Gale Novel #1). Novel. Amazon KDP, 2026.
“The Perfect Date!” Produced at Pyro’s Playfest, 2026.
“Is That You, Kilgore Trout?” Produced at Pyro’s Playfest, 2025.
The Book of Lesser Traumas, Free Spirit Press, 2024.
In a Few Words, Short Story Collection, 2024.
Ace of Spades, Poetry Collection, 2023.
Featured Humorist for “Down Home East Texas” magazine.
Speaking Engagements and Academic Presentations
Literary, Performance, and Public Appearances
June 2026 - Reader’s Theater Performer, Plaza Art Gallery - Paris, Texas
June 2026 – Special Guest and Panelist, HYPE Con – Texarkana, Texas
May 2026 – Stand-Up Comedy Night, Main Street Players – Sulphur Springs, Texas
October 2025 – An Evening of Art and Poetry – Dallas Artists Society
Academic Presentations
April 2026 – Lessons Learned in Learning Supports: Scaling Basic Needs and Academic Assistance Through Institutional Design – Texas Pathways Institute
February 2026 – Assignment Design: Ensuring Authenticity of Student Work in College Composition in the World of AI – Texas Community College Teachers Association Conference
November 2025 – Minding College Minds and Caring Colleges at Paris Junior College – Texas Pathways Institute
April 2025 – Facilitating Student Success: Eight-Week College Composition Corequisite Courses – Texas Pathways Institute
November 2024 – Implementing College Connect and Navigating the Future of Dual Credit – Texas Pathways Institute
October 2023 – What is Called Thinking? – Community College Humanities Conference
Selected Institutional and Board Presentations
2023–2026 – Multiple presentations to the Paris Junior College Board of Regents regarding Learning Resources, student support initiatives, tutoring services, grant-funded programming, and strategic planning.
From the Archives
New work appears regularly…
The bruises linger.
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Essays, noir scraps, serialized work, and whatever else refuses to behave. Think back booth at the coffee shop: bad coffee, good stories, and the kind of honesty you don’t lead with at parties.
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The Way to Endure: A Field Guide to Modern Physical Culture
Modern fitness culture is broken.
It promises transformation through extremes—harder workouts, heavier weights, endless supplements, and the pursuit of a perfect physique. Yet many people end up injured, burned out, and less capable than when they started.
The Way to Endure offers a different path.
Drawing inspiration from the physical culturists, wrestlers, boxers, and strongmen of the early twentieth century, Carey Gable presents a practical philosophy of training built around capability, durability, movement, and sustainable strength. This is not a bodybuilding program. It is not a powerlifting manual. It is not another collection of fitness hacks.
It is a guide to building a body that remains useful.
Inside you'll discover:
• The forgotten principles of physical culture
• Why capability matters more than appearance
• How to develop sustainable strength and endurance
• The role of mobility, posture, recovery, and movement quality
• Practical exercises including Hindu pushups, carries, kettlebell work, pullovers, dragon flags, L-sits, and more
• Real-world training logs and workouts from the author's own practice
• A philosophy for remaining strong, mobile, and resilient throughout lifeWhether you're thirty, fifty, or ninety, the goal remains the same: keep moving, keep adapting, and keep answering the bell.
No gimmicks.
No influencers.
No excuses.
Just movement, discipline, and the will to endure. description
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