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AUSTIN — The 2018 Texas Book Festival weekend is Saturday and Sunday, October 27–28. The festivities get underway at 10 a.m. Saturday; Lit Crawl Austin rules Saturday night; and Sunday’s activities begin at 11 a.m. The festival is held in and around the grounds of the State Capitol Building; Lit Crawl Austin takes place in…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor FICTION Pat Dunlap Evans Out and In: A Novel A. M. Chai Literary Paperback, 978-0-9968822-2-4; 316 pages, $11.99; April 2016 Austin author Pat Dunlap Evans had specific goals in mind when she penned this book, her second: “I wanted to try my hand at a page-turner mystery with…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.28.2018  Photographer sees Texas from a mile above This has been quite a year for elegant coffee-table books about Texas. I’ve mentioned four of them in previous columns, but here are two more that have come to my attention. A Mile Above Texas by Jay B. Sauceda is a spectacular collection…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.21.2018  Biography tells story of Dr. Red Duke “From the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, I’m Dr. Red Duke” is the way Dr. Duke would sign off his popular, common-sense, straight-shooting syndicated health reports on TV for fifteen years. With his bushy mustache, cowboy hat and boots, James…

Contributing Editor Lee & Low Books Hardcover, (978-1-6201-4286-8), 32 pgs., $18.95; August 7, 2018 Bookjoy, Wordjoy is the newest collection of poetry for children from Pat Mora, recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Texas at El Paso, among many distinctions.…

Borderplex community celebrates books October 20 EL PASO — The tenth annual El Paso Community College Literary Fiesta takes place Saturday, October 20, 2018. The fiesta will be held from 12 to 5 p.m. at the El Paso Public Library at 501 N. Oregon Street. This year’s author lineup includes Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Marina Monsisvais, Larry…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pat Dunlap Evans was born in Michigan but “got to Texas as soon as I could.” Her family lived in San Antonio and later Dallas, where she attended South Oak Cliff High School and Southern Methodist University. Pat eventually completed her…

Waco WordFest, October 5-7 Lone Star Storytelling Festival, Frisco, October 12-13 Houston Poetry Fest 2018, October 12-14 Indie Author Day 2018, Dallas, October 13 Tweens Read 2018, South Houston, October 13 North Texas Book & Map Show, Fort Worth, October 13-14 Permian Basin Writer’s Workshop, Midland, October 13-14 Writers in the Field: Chapter Two, Mansfield,…

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…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor BIOGRAPHY/ POLITICS & GOVERNMENT Kyle Longley LBJ’s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval Cambridge University Press Hardcover, 978-1-1071-9303-1, (also available as an e-book), 374 pgs., $29.99; February 22, 2018 Reviewed by Dr. Chris Manno Longley’s narrative LBJ’s 1968 is so compelling from page…