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Humanities Texas presents Texas Storytime: A Family Reading Program, Midland, February 8-March 15 122nd Annual Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Marcos, March 8-10 The Medieval World in a Spanish Context, Dallas, March 8-9 33rd Annual Texas Storytelling Festival, Denton, March 8-11 Houston Writers House Spring Event: How to Write a Bestseller with Robert…

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 3.11.2018   H. H. Lomax spins another western yarn San Angelo author Preston Lewis picks up his H.H. Lomax series of delightfully humorous western novels with Bluster’s Last Stand (Wild Horse Press, $19.95 paperback), a tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek account of the military disaster at Little Bighorn in 1876. Lomax finds his life in danger…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive  Gardening books offer inspiration, practical tips It’s spring, or almost, and many homeowners’ thoughts turn to yards and gardens this time of year. Three colorful new books from Texas A&M University Press offer inspiration and practical tips to help gardeners make the most…

The Alamo is pretty close to being Texas’s mecca, where natives must make a pilgrimage to fulfill their heritage. The events of the Alamo have continued to beckon writers as well, more than 180 years after William Barret Travis drew the line. Performer and collector Phil Collins has a whole list of books that he…

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,…

Humanities Texas presents Texas Storytime: A Family Reading Program, Midland, February 8-March 15 FESTIBA 2018: Festival of International Books & Arts, Brownsville, February 26-March 11th Annual Johnson City Library Writers Conference, February 28 32nd Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Alpine, March 2-3 RGV Writers Conference, McAllen, March 3 Ongoing Exhibits OK, I’ll Do It Myself:…

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 3.4.2018   Gardening books offer inspiration, practical tips It’s spring, or almost, and many homeowners’ thoughts turn to yards and gardens this time of year. Three colorful new books from Texas A&M University Press offer inspiration and practical tips to help gardeners make the most of their efforts. Gardening writer Bill Scheick…