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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, 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 Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Mary Lou Sullivan is an award-winning journalist, author, public relations professional and former radio show host. Her first authorized biography, Raisin’ Cain: The Wild and Raucous Story of Johnny Winter (Backbeat Books, May 2010), earned popular and critical acclaim, as well as prestigious awards…

Texas Book Festival announces 2018 weekend to take place on October 27–28 Nonprofit celebrates successful 2017 Festival Weekend with record-setting attendance and Hurricane Harvey book donations AUSTIN — The Texas Book Festival is proud to announce that its 2017 Festival Weekend was the most successful on record, with 50,000 attendees coming together on November 4…

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 Austin Book, Paper, and Photo Show, January 20-21 Ongoing Exhibits National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9-January 27 Sunday, January 14 Austin Half Price Books – North Lamar, local author Sharon Hudson will sell and sign her children’s book, Millie’s Song…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.21.2018   Author compiles stories of refugees in Texas Dr. Daina Jurika-Owen has published an impressive book, Ten Cultures, Twenty Lives: Refugee Life Stories (Amaya Books, $16.89 paperback), consisting of first person stories of refugees who made a new life for themselves in Abilene, Texas. Jurika-Owen, who is from Latvia in Eastern…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor HISTORICAL FICTION/TEXANA Jeffrey Stuart Kerr Lamar’s Folly: A Novel Texas Tech University Press Paperback, 978-1682830185, 320 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by Si Dunn Nearly 177 years after he ended his term as second president of the Texas Republic, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar remains a controversial figure in Lone Star history.…

HISTORICAL FICTION/TEXANA Jeffrey Stuart Kerr Lamar’s Folly: A Novel Texas Tech University Press Paperback, 978-1682830185, 320 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by Si Dunn Nearly 177 years after he ended his term as second president of the Texas Republic, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar remains a controversial figure in Lone Star history. He is remembered for some good things:…

Texas Book Festival announces 2018 weekend to take place on October 27–28 Nonprofit celebrates successful 2017 Festival Weekend with record-setting attendance and Hurricane Harvey book donations AUSTIN — The Texas Book Festival is proud to announce that its 2017 Festival Weekend was the most successful on record, with 50,000 attendees coming together on November 4…