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Writers in the Field returns with chapter two Oct. 13–14 MANSFIELD — Writers in the Field returns October 13–14, 2018, with more experts, demonstrations, and activities on the thirteen-acre Amber Inn Academy of Arts in Mansfield, Texas, a.k.a. the Richmond family farm. Writers in the Field “started with a simple idea,” according to the website:…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR A historian with research focusing on U.S. foreign relations and modern American politics, Kyle Longley was named director of the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas in July 2018. In addition to LBJ’s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency…

Waco WordFest, October 5-7 Boerne Book & Arts Fest, October 6 Evening with the Authors, Lockhart, October 6 Texas Teen Book Festival, Austin, October 6 Ongoing Exhibits Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30 Literary Frontiers: Historical Fiction & the Creative Imagination, San Marcos, August 1-December 14 “Dawoud Bey: Forty Years…

Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Michelle Newby Lancaster is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Foreword Reviews, writer, blogger at TexasBookLover.com, and a moderator for the Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, Concho River Review, Mosaic Literary Magazine,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.7.2018  Historians debate Chisholm Trail in Texas Did the famous Chisholm Trail ever really exist in Texas, or was that name just applied generically to the various cattle trails that led from Texas to Kansas? Evidently historians have been debating the question for the last hundred years or so, and Fort…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.14.2018  New children’s books from three Texas authors Penguin & Tiny Shrimp Don’t Do Bedtime by Cate Berry of Austin (Harper Collins, $17.99 hardcover, illustrated by Charles Santoso) is not a book about bedtime. Of course it’s not. It’s a book about fireworks, running from lions, flying hot air balloons, sailing…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Author revisits deadly riot at 1926 A&M–Baylor football game T. G. Webb, a Waco historian and football fan, revisits a dark moment in college football in Battle of the Brazos: A Texas Football Rivalry, a Riot, and a Murder (Texas A&M University Press,…

Women’s Storybook Project of Texas awarded Texas Center for the Book 2018 Literacy Award Readers 2 Leaders and Literacy First both awarded honorable mentions AUSTIN — The Women’s Storybook Project of Texas has been selected as the 2018 Texas Center for the Book Literacy Award winner. The nonprofit organization will receive $1,000 to use in…