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Kennedy, Presidio_081218
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Randy Kennedy was born in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in Plains, a small farming town in the Texas Panhandle, where his father worked as a telephone lineman and his mother as a teachers’ aide. He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin. He moved to New York City in…
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Special Events
Harry Potter LeakyCon, Dallas, August 10-12 Texas Sports Hall of Fame 2nd Annual Book Festival, Waco, August 11 3rd Annual Literary Libations Week: a Lit Crawl Austin fundraiser, Austin, August 12-15 Ongoing Exhibits Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30 Sunday, August 5 Dallas The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar:…
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Lone Star ListensAuthor interview by Michelle Newby Lancaster
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,…
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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.12.2018 Author Colleen Hoover does more than write books In the past six years, Colleen Hoover has published fourteen novels in the young adult, new adult and romance genres, consistently ranking high on the New York Times best seller list. But she does more than that. She also operates The Bookworm…
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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,
Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Hardcover, 978-1-5344-0896-8 (also available as an e-book and audio-book), 400 pgs., $17.99 March 27, 2018 Penny is eighteen, beginning her freshman year at UT Austin. She’s funny, smart, and curious (in both senses of that word). She’s an anxious introvert who…
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8.5.18 News Briefs
10th annual Texas Teen Book Festival author lineup announced Thirty-six YA authors will be featured at the tenth annual Texas Teen Book Festival (TTBF) on the campus of St. Edward’s University in Austin on Saturday, October 6, 2018. The lineup includes Ebony Adams, PhD (History vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don’t Want You…
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Sarpalius, The Grand Duke from Boys Ranch_080518
AUTOBIOGRAPHY Bill Sarpalius, with foreword by Bill Hobby The Grand Duke from Boys Ranch Texas A&M University Press Hardcover, 978-1-62349-657-9 (ebook also available), 336 pages, $34.95 April 2018 Under normal circumstances, it’s hard to get elected to the United States Congress. Bill Sarpalius, who represented the Texas 13th Congressional District from 1989 to 1995, started…
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Special Events
33rd Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 28-July 29 Texas Writers’ League Summer Writing Retreat, Nacogdoches July 29-August 3 40th Annual Armadillo Con, Austin, August 3-5 26th Annual Texas Christian Writers’ Conference, Houston, August 4 Ongoing Exhibits Routine Fables, Houston, May 25-July 29 Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30 Sunday, July…
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Lone Star Listens: Norma Elia Cantú
Texas — and the rest of the nation and world — is undergoing a rich resurgence of literature in all genres by Latino/Latina writers. One major contributor to this renaissance is Dr. Norma E. Cantú, who has written eloquently from creative and academic perspectives. She shares her long view with us during the “dog days”…
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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.5.2018 Author ranks top 50 Dallas Cowboys players Fans of the Dallas Cowboys can have fun reading — and debating — The 50 Greatest Players in Dallas Cowboys History by Robert W. Cohen (Lone Star Books, $24.95 hardcover). Cohen, who has written several sports collections of the fifty-best variety, ranks the…