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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 12.3.2017   Almanac’s history section needs updating The 2018–19 edition of The Texas Almanac, published by the Texas State Historical Association, has been released. The price has gone up $5 for both the hardcover ($44.95) and the paperback ($29.95). Featured articles in this edition focus on the state of Texas water and…

Contributing Editor 11.26.2017 WESTERN FICTION Preston Lewis Bluster’s Last Stand: The Memoirs of H. H. Lomax Wild Horse Press Paperback, 978-1-68179-096-1, $19.95 Reading nineteenth-century Old West memoirs can be a fast way to fall asleep — unless they have been written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by San Angelo novelist Preston Lewis, a Spur…

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…

11.26.2017 WESTERN FICTION Preston Lewis Bluster’s Last Stand: The Memoirs of H. H. Lomax Wild Horse Press Paperback, 978-1-68179-096-1, $19.95 Reading nineteenth-century Old West memoirs can be a fast way to fall asleep — unless they have been written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by San Angelo novelist Preston Lewis, a Spur Award winner…

2017 Wizard World Comic Con Austin, November 17-19 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 National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9–January 27 Lone Star imPRESSions: A History of…

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 11.26.2017   New Texas books make great gifts It’s that time of the year when folks like to buy books as gifts for relatives and friends who enjoy reading. Here are some new Texas books to consider. Fiction Before We Were Yours by Texas novelist Lisa Wingate is based on a true…

Contributing Editor TEXAS SPORTS HISTORY Michael Hurd Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas University of Texas Press Hardcover, 978-1-4773-1034-2, 260 pages plus 49 b/w photos, appendixes, index; $24.95 October 2017 Reviewed by Chris Manno Michael Hurd’s Thursday Night Lights is an important story wrapped up in a problematic book.…

PW notes Blue Willow Bookshop’s Harvey benefit for Small Business Saturday, Nov. 25 Booksellers across state and nation tout “Indies First” FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, 11.20.17 — Independent booksellers around the country are prepping for what is likely to be one of the most important shopping days of the year: November 25, otherwise known as Small…