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8th Helen Warren DeGolyer Triennial Exhibition & Competition for American Bookbinding, Dallas, June 8-July 13 33rd Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 28-July 29 Ongoing Exhibits Routine Fables, Houston, May 25-July 29 Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30 Sunday, July 1 Dallas The Foundry Club, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: “How to…

Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies, including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.8.2018  Two more remarkable Texas photography books I spoke too soon. A few weeks ago I wrote columns about two Texas books that would no doubt be among the most elegant books published in Texas this year. Well, I wasn’t wrong. They are quite elegant books — Horses of the American…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, 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…

The Austin Public Library provides six floors of book stacks, meeting rooms, galleries, and wide-open reading space. New Austin Central Library among five best libraries in the world The Austin Central Library, opened in 2017 at a new site overlooking Lady Bird Lake along West César Chávez Drive, has been named one of five finalists…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jen Waldo has lived in Holland, Egypt, the UK, Scotland, Kuwait and Singapore, but now lives in her home Texas, where her novels are set.      She first began writing twenty five years ago and shortly afterwards she had a story picked up by The European and was shortlisted in a competition…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joe Holley writes the “Native Texan” column for the Houston Chronicle. A native Texan himself, he received degrees from Abilene Christian University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. He is a former editor of the Texas Observer and…

33rd Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 28-July 29 Writers’ League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference, Austin, June 29-July 1 Tejas Storytelling 2018 Conference – It’s a Family Reunion: Tales of Kin & Kindred, Fort Worth, June 29-July 1 Ongoing Exhibits Routine Fables, Houston, May 25-July 29 Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene,…

Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies, including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.1.2018  Houston author’s novel a good summer read If you’re looking for a good book to read this summer, let me recommend How to Walk Away, the sixth novel by Houston author Katherine Center (St. Martin’s Press, $26.99 hardcover). Margaret had earned her MBA and landed a great job. She felt…