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“Literary Frontiers”: The Wittliff features Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, Paulette Jiles, and many other masters of classic historical fiction in new exhibition SAN MARCOS — The Wittliff Collections puts the spotlight on authors who have brought to life the epic sweep of Texas history in its new exhibition, “Literary Frontiers: Historical Fiction & the Creative…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ben Fountain was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in the tobacco country of eastern North Carolina. A former practicing attorney, he is the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and the novel Billy Lynn’s Long…

STAPLE! Independent Media Expo, Austin, September 8-9 Heritage Auctions: Rare Books & Maps, Dallas, September 13 Texas Word Wrangler Festival, Giddings, September 13-15 Literacy Instruction for Texas presents Toast to Literacy, Dallas, September 14 Jaipur Literature Festival, Houston, September 14-15 Picture Book Retreat for Authors & Illustrators, Temple, September 14-16 Ongoing Exhibits Oliver Jeffers: 15…

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 9.16.2018  Magic Tree House features 1900 Galveston hurricane Mary Pope Osborne, author of the popular Magic Tree House series of children’s books, turns her attention to the disastrous 1900 Galveston hurricane in Hurricane Heroes in Texas (Random House, $13.99 hardcover). Jack and Annie have a magical tree house near their home…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor MYSTERY J J Rusz The Window Trail: A Big Bend Country Mystery CreateSpace Paperback, 978-1-7224-2487-9, (also available as an e-book),  284 pgs., $12.99; July 4, 2018 In Big Bend National Park, the Window Trail is a 5.5-mile, out-and-back pathway that draws hikers, birders, and others to its rugged…

Nominations open for Texas State Artists AUSTIN — “There is a government code that says that the legislature will name a Texas poet laureate, a state musician, and then state visual artists—one in two-dimensional art and one in three-dimensional art,” says Anina Moore with the Texas Commission on the Arts. Moore says artists don’t receive…

SCIENCE FICTION Thea Lim An Ocean of Minutes: A Novel Touchstone Books Hardcover, 978-1-5011-9255-5 (also available as an e-book and an audiobook), 320 pgs., $26.00 July 10, 2018 Frank and Polly are falling in varying degrees of love. Winter is awfully cold in Buffalo, New York, so the two take off on a lark for…

Lone Star Zine Fest, Austin, September 2 Langdon Review Weekend, Granbury, September 5-8 30th Annual National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration, Lubbock, September 7-9 Hay Festival – Bogotá 39, Dallas, September 8 STAPLE! Independent Media Expo, Austin, September 8-9 Ongoing Exhibits Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30 “Dawoud Bey: Forty Years…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.9.2018  New James Patterson novel set in Texas James Patterson, whose books have reportedly sold 375 million copies, has a new novel set in Texas, and it quickly jumped to number one on the New York Times Best-Seller List. Patterson teamed up with Andrew Bourelle to write Texas Ranger(Little, Brown, $28…