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Contributing Editor MEMOIR Alex Lemon Feverland: A Memoir in Shards Milkweed Editions Paperback,  978-1-57131-336-2, 312 pages, $16.00; September 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn Imagine that your entire life can be viewed, frozen in place, in one big mirror. Now, drop the mirror. Let it shatter and scatter into countless pieces. As you pick up some…

Writers’ League holds 25th Agents & Editors Conference June 29–July 1, 2018, Austin Three days. More than 20 agents and editors. Bestselling and award-winning authors and publishing professionals. Nearly 300 writers across all genres. Countless panels, presentations, and networking opportunities.             Now in its 25th year, the Writers’ League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference…

LITERARY FICTION Diane DeSanders Hap and Hazard and the End of the World: A Novel Bellevue Literary Press Paperback, 978-1-9426-5836-8 (also available as an e-book, an audio book, and on Audible), 288 pgs., $16.99 January 9, 2018 Dick and Jane are well off, living with their three daughters in late 1940s Dallas when there were…

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 6.24.2018  Ever’ Texan oughta read this book of Texas stories When you open W. F. Strong’s book Stories from Texas: Some of Them Are True, right there on the title page is my succinct review: “Ever’ Texan oughta read this book.” The publisher (Beverley Place Books) sent me an advance copy…

Contributing Editor MEMOIR Alex Lemon Feverland: A Memoir in Shards Milkweed Editions Paperback,  978-1-57131-336-2, 312 pages, $16.00; September 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn Imagine that your entire life can be viewed, frozen in place, in one big mirror. Now, drop the mirror. Let it shatter and scatter into countless pieces. As you pick up some…

Texas Book Festival announces recipients of Harvey relief funds Organization awards a total of $10,000 to five school libraries affected by Hurricane Harvey AUSTIN — The Texas Book Festival this week announced the recipients of its special school library rebuilding grants, awarded to five Texas schools affected by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Each school will…

BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY Jacqueline Jones Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical Basic Books Hardcover, 978-0-4650-7899-8, (also available as an e-book, an audiobook, and on audio CD), 480 pgs., $32.00 December 2017 Lucy Parsons. Slave, freedwoman, student, wife, mother, writer, editor, internationally renowned orator, socialist, communist, anarchist, cipher. From her birth to…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com MEMOIR Alex Lemon Feverland: A Memoir in Shards Milkweed Editions Paperback,  978-1-57131-336-2, 312 pages, $16.00 September 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn Imagine that your entire life can be viewed, frozen in place, in one big mirror. Now, drop the mirror. Let it shatter and…

Southern Fried Poetry Slam, San Antonio, June 12-17 Greater Austin Comic Con, June 16-17 Meet Valley Authors Night, McAllen, June 22 12th Annual Austin African American Book Festival, June 23 Ongoing Exhibits Routine Fables, Houston, May 25-July 29 Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30 Sunday, June 17   FATHER’S DAY Austin…