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Next session of Professor’s Corner slated for Mon., Dec. 11 in Denton Session title: “Adapting Homer’s Odyssey, or What Makes an Instant Classic?” Presenter:   Dr. Gretchen Busl, Texas Woman’s University Date and location: Monday, December 11, 2017,  7:00-8:30 p.m. at the Denton South Branch Library This session draws inspiration from Italo Calvino’s “Why Read the…

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.…

Paragraph Ranch Weekend Writers’ Retreat with Tex Thompson and Cookbook Brunch with Angelina LaRue, Spur, December 1-3 13th Annual SIGNATURES AUTHOR SERIES featuring Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train), The Woodlands, December 8 Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair, Austin, December 9 Laredo Book Festival, December 9 7th Annual Austin Writergrrls Book Fest, December 10…

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 12.10.2017   Texas weather: Read all about it Weather in Texas: The Essential Handbook by veteran Texas meteorologist George W. Bomar (University of Texas Press, $24.95 paperback) is essentially an updated third edition of Bomar’s Texas Weather, first published in 1983. Bomar provides scientific and practical information about Texas weather, including what…

Contributing Editor FICTION 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 questions that set up a…

7th Annual Laredo Book Festival coming up Dec. 9 The 7th Annual Laredo Book Festival will feature Matt de la Peña, a New York Times bestselling, Newbery Medal–winning author of six young adult novels (Mexican WhiteBoy, The Living and The Hunted) and two picture books (A Nation’s Hope and Last Stop on Market Street). Sponsored…

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.…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com A native of Texas, Clark Hays spent his early childhood there and then moved for a decade with his family around the world following the job of his father, a legendary wildcat petroleum drilling engineer, before finally landing on a Montana ranch. Kathleen McFall…

Paragraph Ranch Weekend Writers’ Retreat with Tex Thompson, Spur, December 1-3 Texas Christian University Holiday Book Fest, Fort Worth, December 2 Houston Writers Guild Gala and Toy Drive, December 2 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 1…