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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.7.2018 As announced last week, “Texas Reads” columnist Glenn Dromgoole is taking a well-deserved break for a couple of weeks (and catching up on some choice reading!) >> FROM TEXAS READS, 12.31.17 Big names: Two best-selling books by Texas-related authors I should have gotten around to this fall, but didn’t, are…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor FICTION / TEXANA Heath Dollar Waylon County: Texas Stories Sleeping Panther Press Paperback, 978-0-9980661-4-1 (also available as ebook); $14.99 Waylon County: Texas Stories is a fresh-voiced, well-composed collection of thirty-one vignettes and short stories set in a fictional county in the Texas Hill Country. Some of its characters…

Texas libraries named Star Libraries for 2017 Eleven Texas Libraries were chosen by Library Journal and Baker & Taylor as Star Libraries for 2017. This is tenth year that this selection process has occurred. Nationwide, there were 259 Star Libraries, each receiving three-Star, four-Star, or five-Star designations. From 2009 through 2015, the four measures included…

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.…

No special events this week Ongoing Exhibits Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 31 National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9-January 27 Sunday, December 24 Dallas Half Price Books Mothership, Local…

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 12.31.2017   West Texas writers produce collection of stories A West Texas writers group, the Permian Basin Bookies, has published a handsome hardcover collection of stories titled West Texas Lore & Legend (Dust Devil Books, $24.95). Proceeds from the project benefit the Recording Library of West Texas, which produces audio recordings for…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor FICTION / TEXANA Heath Dollar Waylon County: Texas Stories Sleeping Panther Press Paperback, 978-0-9980661-4-1 (also available as ebook); $14.99 Waylon County: Texas Stories is a fresh-voiced, well-composed collection of thirty-one vignettes and short stories set in a fictional county in the Texas Hill Country. Some of its characters…

Texas libraries named Star Libraries for 2017 Eleven Texas Libraries were chosen by Library Journal and Baker & Taylor as Star Libraries for 2017. This is tenth year that this selection process has occurred. Nationwide, there were 259 Star Libraries, each receiving three-Star, four-Star, or five-Star designations. From 2009 through 2015, the four measures included…

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.…