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First weekend of May sees Austin Book Awards, New Fiction Confab, and Austin Lit Fair in capital city Novelist Elizabeth Crook, non-fiction writer Nate Blakeslee, and Young Adult author Varian Johnson are this year’s recipients of the Austin Book Awards, selected by the Austin Library Foundation, the library has announced. The honorees will be celebrated…

Lib-Con, Abilene, April 25-28 Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, McAllen, April 26-29 15th Annual Mansfield Reads! with Carlton Stowers, April 26-27 ATX Bookstore Crawl, Austin, April 28 Authors in the Parks, various locations, April 28 2018 Dia De los Niños / Dia de los Libros, El Paso, April 28 Independent Bookstore Day, various locations,…

Contributing Editor 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…

Contributing Editor LITERARY FICTIONAmy PoeppelLimelight: A Novel Atria/Emily Bestler BooksHardcover, 978-1-5011-7637-1 (also available as an e-book, an audio book, and on Audible), 416 pgs., $26.00May 1, 2018Allison Brinkley’s family is discombobulated. They’ve just moved from suburban Dallas to the heart of Manhattan. Husband and father Michael is nervous about his new job. The substitute teaching…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robert Kurson s an American author best known for his 2004 bestselling book Shadow Divers, the true story of two Americans who discover a World War II German U-boat sunk 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. Kurson began his…

Valley International Poetry Festival hosts poets April 26–29, 2018 The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, established in 2008, is a four-day poetry festival in deep South Texas held concurrently in two countries on the last full weekend in April. All events (except Poetry Pachanga Dinner and school readings) are free and open to the…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Patricia Hunt Holmes spent thirty years as a public finance attorney with the international law firm of Vinson & Elkins LLP of Houston, Texas. She was consistently listed in Best Lawyers in America, Texas Super Lawyers, and Top Lawyers in Houston…

LITERARY FICTION Amy Poeppel Limelight: A Novel Atria/Emily Bestler Books Hardcover, 978-1-5011-7637-1 (also available as an e-book, an audio book, and on Audible), 416 pgs., $26.00 May 1, 2018 Allison Brinkley’s family is discombobulated. They’ve just moved from suburban Dallas to the heart of Manhattan. Husband and father Michael is nervous about his new job.…

Canadian River Valley Writer’s Workshop, Canadian, April 13-15 El Paso Comic Con, April 13-15 Bishop Dunne Literary Festival with Jesmyn Ward, Dallas, April 16 National Book Awards Festival, Huntsville, April 16-17 Historical Manuscripts Auction, Dallas, April 18 North Texas Teen Book Festival, Irving, April 20-21 Poetry at Round Top, April 20-22 Ongoing Exhibits Our Voice:…