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Nineteen elected to Texas Institute of Letters for 2018 Members of the Texas Institute of Letters have overwhelming approved nineteen writers to join the ranks of the TIL, a distinguished honor society founded in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and recognize distinctive literary achievement. The TIL’s membership consists of the state’s most respected writers —…

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.…

FronteraFest 2018, Austin, January 16-February 17 How to Self-Publish Your Book — Economically, Quickly, and Professionally, Dallas, January 23-February 6 Bookworm Festival, Houston, February 3 BrazCon Teen Comic Convention & Geekfest, Pearland, February 3 Ongoing Exhibits Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas Exhibition),…

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 2.4.2018   Gary P. Nunn writes about his life in music Gary P. Nunn is considered one of the founding fathers of the Austin music scene that evolved in the 1970s as a blend of country, rock, jazz, and folk and spawned such iconic figures as Willie Nelson, Michael Martin Murphey, Jerry…

Contributing Editor 1.21.2018 BIOGRAPHY Mary Lou Sullivan Everything’s Bigger in Texas: The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman Backbeat Books Hardcover, 978-1495058967, 344 pages, $29.99 (also available as ebook); October 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn Chicago native Richard “Kinky” Friedman has lived a bigger life in Texas than most other Lone Star State inhabitants would…

Nineteen elected to Texas Institute of Letters for 2018 Members of the Texas Institute of Letters have overwhelming approved nineteen writers to join the ranks of the TIL, a distinguished honor society founded in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and recognize distinctive literary achievement. The TIL’s membership consists of the state’s most respected writers —…

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.…

FronteraFest 2018, Austin, January 16-February 17 How to Self-Publish Your Book — Economically, Quickly, and Professionally, Dallas, January 23-February 6 Ongoing Exhibits National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9-January 27 Sunday, January 21 Austin B&N – Arboretum, Charlotte Reagan signing Loving Lakyn, 2PM Malvern Books, launch party…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.28.2018   Novel’s character grapples with early dementia Houston author Evan Moore has penned a sensitive, literate novel dealing with early onset dementia. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Moonshine Cove Publishing, $13.99 paperback) tells the story of a 60-year-old weekly newspaper publisher who lives with his college-age son on the family’s…