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Anime Matsuri Convention, Houston, March 29-April 1 3rd Annual Books2Eat Celebration, Houston, March 31 16th Annual Austin Edible Book Festival, April 1 Ongoing Exhibits OK, I’ll Do It Myself: Narratives of Intrepid Women in the American Wilderness, Selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection, Dallas, January 18-March 28 Texas Writers Traveling Exhibition (Humanities Texas), San…

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 4.1.2018   Texas wildflower guide updated, revised Joe Marcus of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center headed up the reorganization of the popular book Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide reissued in a new edition by the University of Texas Press ($19.95 flexbound). UT Press says the book, first published in 1984 and…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor MUSIC BIOGRAPHY Roy Orbison Jr., Wesley Orbison, and Alex Orbison, with Jeff Slate The Authorized Roy Orbison Center Street Hardcover, 978-1-4789-7655-4 (ebook and audio versions also available), 264 pages, $15.99 October 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn Texas native Roy Orbison remains a major name in popular music nearly…

International Edible Book Festival delights foodies and bookies, April 2018 << SANCHO PIE-NZA, ANYONE? Don Quixote dish celebrates Cervantes novel (photo provided) Starting in the year 2000, bibliophiles, book artists and food lovers around the world have gathered to celebrate the art of books through food. Participants create an “edible book,” which is a culinary…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Wesley, Roy Jr., and Alex Orbison work tirelessly to protect and further their father’s legacy. Wesley, the eldest, is a seasoned songwriter and guitar player. His song “The Only One” (co-written with Craig Wiseman) appears on Roy Orbison’s multi-platinum album Mystery…

Michelle Newby is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Foreword Reviews, writer, blogger at TexasBookLover.com, member of the Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop advisory committee, and a moderator for the Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, Concho River Review, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review, The Rumpus, PANK Magazine, and The Collagist.…

Beall Poetry Festival, Waco, March 21-23 Houston Public Library Foundation 2nd Annual Beyond the Page Benefit Luncheon, March 22 New Visions, New Voices: Spring Playwriting Festival, Dallas, March 22-25 A Conference on the Tricentennial, San Antonio, March 23-24 Kidlit Marches for Kids: March for Our Lives, March 24 Teen Book Con, League City, March 24…

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 3.25.2018   James Patterson writes about Texas true crime case James Patterson, the mega-bestselling novelist, turns his storytelling talents to true crime, featuring a Texas murder-for-hire case in Murder, Interrupted (Grand Central Publishing, $30 hardcover, $15.99 paperback). The book includes two stories, the first of which deals with the case of upstanding…