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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor LITERARY FICTION J. Reeder Archuleta The El Paso Red Flame Gas Station and Other Stories Dog Ear Publishing Paperback, 978-1-4575-5919-8 (also available as an e-book), 132 pages, $9.99; December 2017 Where most of us might see only dry, windy, hardscrabble land, Far West Texas native J. Reeder Archuleta…

KidLit Marches for Kids’ Lives March 24 From Shelf Awareness — After the fatal shooting of seventeen students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, authors Jenny Han and Raina Telgemeier each felt the need to do something. A young adult author, Han feels that she has a “unique connection” with…

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.…

Humanities Texas presents Texas Storytime: A Family Reading Program, Midland, February 8-March 15 SXSW Conference & Festival, Austin, March 9-18 Barrio Writers Spring Break 2018, Austin, March 12-13 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam, Dallas, March 14-17 Permian Basin Comic Con, Midland, March 16 Ongoing Exhibits OK, I’ll Do It Myself: Narratives of Intrepid…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 3.18.2018   New biography profiles Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller Doris Miller was an “improbable American hero,” write authors Thomas W. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish in Doris Miller: Pearl Harbor and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement (Texas A&M University Press, $24.95 hardcover). Because of racial segregation, Miller was assigned…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor LITERARY FICTION J. Reeder Archuleta The El Paso Red Flame Gas Station and Other Stories Dog Ear Publishing Paperback, 978-1-4575-5919-8 (also available as an e-book), 132 pages, $9.99; December 2017 Where most of us might see only dry, windy, hardscrabble land, Far West Texas native J. Reeder Archuleta…

BookPeople’s Steve Bercu to retire AUSTIN —Steve Bercu, who has been CEO of Austin’s independent bookstore BookPeople for almost 20 years, plans to retire from full-time bookselling this coming June. As part of the transition, Elizabeth Jordan has been named general manager of BookPeople. She has worked at the store since 2002 as a bookseller,…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com LITERARY FICTION J. Reeder Archuleta The El Paso Red Flame Gas Station and Other Stories Dog Ear Publishing Paperback, 978-1-4575-5919-8 (also available as an e-book), 132 pages, $9.99 December 2017 Where most of us might see only dry, windy, hardscrabble land, Far West Texas…

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.…