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Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Michael Hurd is the director of Prairie View A&M University’s Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture, which documents the history of African American Texans. He has worked as a sports writer for the Houston Post, the Austin American-Statesman, USA Today, and…

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.…

Odessa Shakespeare Festival, November 17-18 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…

In just three short years at Lone Star Literary Life, we’ve developed a lot of traditions and recurring features. One of our mouth-watering favorites featuring a cookbook author as the front-page Lone Star Listens feature on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. For 2017 our cookbook author and chef is Houston resident Adán Medrano, who has traveled…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.19.2017   Story collection offers a treat for Elmer Kelton fans Fans of the late Elmer Kelton are in for a treat.       Wild West, a new collection of eleven of Kelton’s earliest short stories from the 1950s, has been published by Forge Books (366 pages, $27.99 hardcover). The stories, which gave…

Troncoso endows new TIL award for fiction On his blog this month, El Paso author Sergio Troncoso has announced a new award for Best Work of First Fiction ($1,000). The Sergio Troncoso Award will be given to a first novel or short-story collection by an author from Texas or writing about Texas. The publication date…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com William D. Darling is a lifelong storyteller and very nearly a native Texan, arriving in his beloved state as an infant in 1942. His first novel, Morgan’s Point, introduced readers to both the mid-‘60s rough-and-tumble world of the Houston courts where Darling came of…

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.…

World Fantasy 2017, San Antonio, November 2-5 George West Storyfest, November 3-5 Texas Book Festival, Austin, November 4-5 Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Annual Celebration of Reading, Dallas, November 7 Writers In the Schools (WITS) Gala 2017, Houston, November 9 Fresh Fiction’s Readers & ’ritas 2017, Allen, November 10–12 SCBWI Austin Novel Writing Retreat,…