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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 12.24.2017   Hall of Fame Ranger lawmen profiled in new series The University of North Texas Press has published The Ranger Ideal, Volume 1: Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1823–1861 by Darren L. Ivey ($39.95 hardcover, 650 pages). This first book in a planned three-part series offers 40- to 70-page…

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 Writes at the Alvarado Public Library in Alvarado Jan. 13, 2018 Texas Writes is a statewide program that brings accomplished authors to rural libraries for a half day of presentations and panel discussions. Each event is free and open to the public. This event will feature presentations from authors Jeramey Kraatz and Karen Witemeyer…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com 2.17.2017 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…

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.…

7th Annual Austin Writergrrls Book Fest, December 10 Kwanzaa Fort Worth Poetry & Storytelling, December 16 Half Price Books Kids & YA Book Giveaway (#HarveyRelief), Houston, December 16 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…

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 17 Austin 4th Tap Brewing Coop, Revel…

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 12.17.2017   New biography tells Kinky Friedman’s story Mary Lou Sullivan tells the story of one of Texas’s most colorful characters in Everything’s Bigger in Texas: The Life & Times of Kinky Friedman (Backbeat Books, $29.99 hardcover). Kinky wrote the foreword to his own biography. Of course he did. “I’ll be honest…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor 12.3.17FICTION Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall Bonnie and Clyde: Resurrection Road Pumpjack Press Paperback, 978-0997411331 (also available as ebook), 308 pages, $15.95; April 2017 This new take on the 1934 deaths of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow is a fast-moving action-thriller rich with mystery, socio-political commentary, and lingering…