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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,…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Michelle Newby is on vacation this week and will return with her regular review next Sunday after a well deserved break. 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…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com 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…

Gemini Ink to host 3rd Writers Conference July 20-22 SAN ANTONIO — Gemini Ink, San Antonio’s literary arts center, is holding its 3rd annual Writers Conference July 20–22nd, 2018 at the historic downtown El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel. The conference focus is “Writing the New Century” and will explore the role writing plays in shaping the…

8th Helen Warren DeGolyer Triennial Exhibition & Competition for American Bookbinding, Dallas, June 8-July 13 33rd Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 28-July 29 Girls, Inc. Literacy Camp, Fort Worth, July 9-1249th Annual Summer Conference of the Poetry Society of Texas, Waco, July 12-14East Texas Writers Guild 15th Annual Summer Conference, Tyler, July 14 Ongoing Exhibits…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.15.2018  Texas A&M Press offers compelling non-fiction titles Texas A&M University Press continues to step up its regional non-fiction offerings with titles covering a wide range of interests. Here are a few current selections from A&M, and a peek at the new fall catalog promises many more are in the works.…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.22.2018  Interesting lives: interesting books Glenn Patterson believed in hard work and fair play and built his Snyder oil drilling company on those principles, writes his son, T.M. “Roe” Patterson, in Crude Blessings: The Amazing Life Story of Glenn Patterson, American Oilman ($24.95 hardcover). Patterson’s brother-in-law, company co-founder Cloyce Talbott, commends…

Contributing Editor Joe Holley Hurricane Season: The Unforgettable Story of the 2017 Houston Astros and the Resilience of A City Hachette Books Hardcover, 978-0316485241, 272 pages (also available as paperback and ebook), $27.00 May 1, 2018 Reviewed by Chris Manno If you’re looking for a baseball collectible enshrining the 2018 World Champion Houston Astros and…

East Texas Writers Guild 15th Annual Summer Conference set for July 14 TYLER—The 15th Annual East Texas Writers’ Guild Summer Conference is set for July 14, 2018, at the Tyler Junior College-West Campus. The theme of this year’s meeting is “The Power of the Pen.” Featured speakers include: Roger Leslie: Narrative–Point of View; Debra Winegarten:…

SOCIAL SCIENCES/IMMIGRATION Daina Jurika-Owen Ten Cultures, Twenty Lives: Refugee Life Stories Amaya Books Paperback, 978-0-9993-9810-4 (also available as an e-book), 320 pgs., $16.89 November 21, 2017 “It is true that America is a land of opportunity.” —Jolie, Democratic Republic of Congo I volunteered a few years ago as a family mentor with the International Rescue…