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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Granddaughter tells George and Barbara’s love story Ellie LeBlond Sosa (teaming up with writer/editor Kelly Anne Chase) focuses on her grandparents’ great love for each other and their extended family in George and Barbara Bush: A Great American Love Story (Down East Books,…

Inprint Houston announces 2018–19 authors for its Margarett Root Brown Reading Series On Monday, July 23, Houston’s creative writing organization Inprint announced authors for its Margarett Root Brown Reading Series’ 2018–19 season during a special happy hour at Night Heron. The new season kicks off September 24 with Esi Edugyan, author of Half-Blood Blues, which…

YA FICTION/ROMANTIC COMEDY Mary H. K. Choi Emergency Contact 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…

33rd Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 28-July 29 Macondo Writers Workshop, San Antonio, July 25-28 The Texas Playwright’s Festival, Houston, July 26-29 AME: Authors Marketing Event, Dallas, July 27-29 El Tallercito’s Writers Conference, Dallas, July 28 Texas Latino Comic Con 2018, Dallas, July 28 Texas Writers’ League Summer Writing Retreat, Nacogdoches July 29-August 3 Ongoing…

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 7.29.2018  Granddaughter tells George and Barbara’s love story Ellie LeBlond Sosa (teaming up with writer/editor Kelly Anne Chase) focuses on her grandparents’ great love for each other and their extended family in George and Barbara Bush: A Great American Love Story (Down East Books, $24.95 hardcover). “My grandmother passed away just…

Contributing Editor HISTORY / POLITICS Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House Joshua Zeitz Viking Hardcover, 978-0-525-42878-7, 400 pages, $30.00  (also available in paperback, audiobook, and ebook formats) January 2018 Reviewed by Si Dunn Trump and the Republican Party keep saying they want to “unwind” Barack Obama’s political legacy. Yet what’s also under…

2018 Macondo Writers Workshop, July 24-29, to include Sandra Cisneros reading Macondo Writers Workshop will hold their annual event July 24–29, 2018, at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. Events include a special reading and book signing with Sandra Cisneros on Friday, July 27, at 7 p.m. at the university auditorium. Suggested donation is $20, and all…

MEDICINE/BIOGRAPHY Mimi Swartz Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart Crown Publishing Group Hardcover, 978-0-8041-3800-0 (also available as an e-book and audio-book), 336 pgs., $27.00 August 7, 2018 “The medical and engineering professions were like a couple who were profoundly ill-suited for each other but determined to work together for the sake of the…

33rd Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 28-July 29 Barrio Writers Summer Workshop, Pflugerville, July 16-21 Celebration Magazine’s 4th Annual Live, Laugh and Learn, Richardson, July 17 Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival, Houston, July 18-21 Gemini Ink Writers Conference, San Antonio, July 20-22 The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Grapevine, July 20-22 JStokes Writing…