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Poets Gather in Conroe Dec. 6 to celebrate Emily Dickinson’s Birthday CONROE — Lone Star College Montgomery will host the 2018 Emily Dickinson Birthday Celebration on Thursday, December 6, 2018. The annual celebration will again feature two events, a presentation at LSC-Montgomery by a noted Dickinson scholar and the Gathering of Poets readings at Martin’s…

CHILDREN’S FICTION Mary Pope Osborne (author), AG Ford (illustrator) Hurricane Heroes in Texas (Magic Tree House #30) Random House Books for Young Readers Hardcover, 978-1-5247-1312-6 (also available as an e-book and an audio-book), 112 pgs., $13.99 August 7, 2018 The place you must go On this late summer day Is an island in Texas Between…

14th Annual Signatures Author Series, The Woodlands, November 30 4th Literacy in the Bag Kick Off, Houston, December 1 8th Annual Writergrrls Book Fest: A Tribute to Debra Winegarten, Austin, December 2 Ongoing Exhibits Literary Frontiers: Historical Fiction & the Creative Imagination, San Marcos, August 1-December 14 “Dawoud Bey: Forty Years in Harlem” photography exhibition…

Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies, including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 12.2.2018  A dozen favorite Texas books from 2018 Over the course of the year, I receive probably 200 or more books to consider for Texas Reads, and I try to get around to as many as possible. So far I’ve been able to write about, or at least mention, 110 titles…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor FICTION / PARANORMAL ROMANCE Michael Scott Clifton The Janus Witch Book Liftoff Paperback, 978-1-947946-42-2 (also available as ebook), 344 pages, $14.95 September 2018 East Texas, specifically the areas around Mount Pleasant and Longview, might not be your first choices for fantasy settings in a darkly toned, paranormal romance…

No special events this week Ongoing Exhibits Literary Frontiers: Historical Fiction & the Creative Imagination, San Marcos, August 1-December 14 “Dawoud Bey: Forty Years in Harlem” photography exhibition (from the book Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply), Austin, August 29-December 8 Finding Sophie Blackall Exhibition, Abilene, October 11-February 1 Texas Writers (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Livingston, November…

8th Annual Writergrrls Book Fest to pay tribute to the late Debra Winegarten AUSTIN — Austin writers Cindy Huyser, Peggy Kelsey, Seja Rachel, Polly Hughes, Agnes Savich, Lisa L. Moore, Tina Posner, Desiree Morales, Robin Bradford, Katherine Durham Oldmixon, and Allyson Whipple will be featured at the 8th Annual Austin Writergrrls Book Fest scheduled for…