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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 5.13.2018  Author relates inside story of the 1956 movie Giant Veteran Austin author Don Graham tells the story behind one of Texas’s iconic movies in Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber and the Making of a Legendary American Film (St. Martin’s Press, $27.99 hardcover). The book title is…

Writefest, Houston, April 30-May 6 Texas Frightmare Weekend, DFW Airport, May 4-6 Voices de la Luna 21st Annual Texas Voices Award, San Antonio, May 6 41st Annual O. Henry Museum Pun-Off World Championship, Austin, May 12 Bookworm: A Fair For Book Lovers, San Antonio, May 12 Local Author Showcase, McAllen, May 12 Ongoing Exhibits Our…

41st annual O. Henry Museum Pun-Off World Championships set for May 12 in Austin AUSTIN — For more than four decades, the O. Henry Pun-Off has celebrated the lowest form of “groan-up” humor. The 41st Annual O. Henry Museum Pun-Off World Championships will take place Sat., May 12, 2018 at 409 E. Fifth St. in…

Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, McAllen, April 26-29 Austin SCWBI 2018 Writers & Illustrators Working Conference, April 28-29 Austin Short Short Fiction Festival, April 29 Writefest, Houston, April 30-May 6 Austin Book Awards, May 4 Knot Your Average Folk Tale: WTAMU’s 2018 Storytelling Festival, Canyon, May 4 Texas Frightmare Weekend, DFW Airport, May 4-6…

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 5.6.2018  Joanna Gaines shares some of her favorite recipes Joanna Gaines of “Fixer Upper” fame has a new cookbook, Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering (William Morrow, $29.99 hardcover). As you would expect, it’s very well done, with 300 pages full of recipes, color photos, and running commentary. Some…

Contributing Editor AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MUSIC Gary P. Nunn At Home with the Armadillo Greenleaf Book Group Press Hardcover, 978-1-62634-487-7 (also available in e-book format), 336, pages, $24.95 January 2018 Reviewed by Si Dunn Early in 1972, singer-songwriter-musician Gary P. Nunn was ready to quit performing, leave Texas, and move back to his home state, Oklahoma.…

POETRY Carmen Tafolla, edited by Bryce Milligan New and Selected Poems Hardcover, 978-0-87565-689-2, 96 pp.,  $19.95 Texas A&M University Press TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series June 15, 2018 Reviewed by Natalia Treviño The first burst of delicacies in Carmen Tafolla’s New and Selected Poems. A tribute to her accomplishments, roots, and activism by Bryce Milligan.…